I woke up this morning and my testicles were playing chess. So weird, I thought they preferred checkers.
I woke up this morning and my testicles were playing chess. So weird, I thought they preferred checkers.
Oof I hope they didn't castle again.
I woke up this morning and my testicles were playing chess. So weird, I thought they preferred checkers.
How many dimensions? If it's at least 4-dimensional chess they can run for office or become a tech magnate.
Was going to put this in the "Love" thread but felt it is more just another one of my random tangents so here it is: (spoilers)
I love the movie Edge of Tomorrow (for more reasons than the off the charts hotness that is Emily Blunt)
So the ending is vague enough but seems to be that Cruise kills the alpha and gains the ability to reset time.
A couple of options occur to fill in what the untold background surrounding the aliens is.
1- The alpha is another human writing their hero story up to the point where Cruise foils it. Perhaps this predecessor has done the same to another alpha. Plus who knows how far back this path has gone with alphas being replaced repeatedly. And perhaps, someone will eventually replace Cruise as alpha. As we age, we encounter more and more of the harshness of life and given the power, would reasonably try to fix it.
2- Cruise is the alpha when the movie starts and we are witnessing his rebirth cycle. One side possibility to this is the alpha merges/overwrites Cruise at the end. The alpha is outside either the aliens or humans and chooses its next form to evolve to. It goes from alien to Cruise to some next species when it goes as far as it can go with its human form.
You should read All You Need Is Kill, Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel, which the movie is based on. Or the manga, also created by him. It may answer your questions.
A contractor came over yesterday to give us some estimates on house stuff- he was maybe an elder zoomer or young millennial. He saw our dvd’s in the living room and exclaimed “oh wow, dvd’s, I thought my grandma was the only person who still had those!”
Heh.
"You're fired!"
There's nothing like going into the grocery store and all the freezer and refrigerator doors are fogged up because it's so insanely hot and humid outside.
I had never before seen a person walking with a parrot on their shoulders until last week. And then I saw another one on Sunday.
I'm really glad streaming shows have gone to the 10-ish episode model that forces story momentum every episode. I'm currently trying to watch Fringe on HBO Max. I fell off at some point in season 3 of the original run so I wanted to finish it. It's so frustrating to watch now. Most episodes are just a generic police procedural with five minutes of story mythology at the end.
Somehow, I ended up watching a couple old Looney Tunes cartoons online this past weekend, and the comedic timing on some of those is just astonishing.
Like, to this day, the catapult bit with Wile E. Coyote makes me laugh until I start coughing my brains out.
If Star Trek is serious about Star Trek, make the next few movies not destroy yet another Enterprise.
If Star Trek is serious about Star Trek, make the next few movies not destroy yet another Enterprise.
But it's tradition!
A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops. [...]And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video!
What’s going on?
It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used.
The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback.
There's a followup, with a link to an Adam Neely analysis on YouTube:
This tread on Reddit is great
These Space Facts Prove That We Simply Cannot Comprehend The Bizarre Vastness Beyond Earth
My university astronomy professor was asked how "full" space is.He said that if you made a building 20 miles high, 20 miles wide and 20 miles long, and put a single grain of sand in it, that would be how "full" space is.
The North Star, the rings of Saturn, and (Not space related, but cool) the Rocky Mountains are all younger than sharks.
About 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Earth and sun were on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy*. So, Dinosaurs are from the other side of the galaxy.*The sun completes an orbit of the Milky Way about every 200 million years.
In 4.5 billion years when the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies come together, each containing hundreds of billions of stars, they will pass through each other with not a single star from either galaxy colliding. Space is THAT big.
Mandatory Douglas Adam’s quote:
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
The speed of light has nothing to do with light itself. Light simply travels the fastest speed the universe allows. If a faster speed was possible, light would travel at that speed instead.
Okay, I'm gonna go sit down for a while.
This is my desktop. Because it keeps me humble. I used to use the Hubble Deep Field image, but now I use one of the JWST NIRCAM ones!
https://esawebb.org/images/JADES2/
The original is 12097x8482. That offered me plenty of room to carve out this 2160p desktop!
Despite my earlier skepticism, Twisters is a perfectly fun, stupid disaster movie and a worthy successor to the original.
That said, like many people i'm sure, I was inspired to look at some docs online about actual tornadoes, and I will say, my Yankee ass has no idea how you Goodjers who live in tornado country do it.
I don't own enough britches for the number of times I'd shit them in the face of a F4, or even a F3. Like, you could genuinely argue both of these movies actually undersell the power of a F5.
Also, there's a line in the original calling a F5 tornado "the finger of God," and after watching vids about Hackleburg, Joplin and Moore, yeah, that sounds about right.
More like "the middle finger of God".
I learned not to long ago that of the average 1200 tornadoes recorded every year worldwide, over 900 occur in the United States. Turns out the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico are working together to erase Joplin, Missouri.
My genuine reaction to hearing that RDJ is Dr. Doom was genuinely "..........wait, what?"
Like, not even mad, just... seriously confused.
Are there any Irish(in Ireland) still around? I am going to be there from the 1st to the 9th with my family on vacation.
YouTube started to show ads featuring the Conservative party leader, which means I (finally) subscribed to YouTube Premium to make sure I see this guy's arrogant face as little as possible.
You got me, YouTube. Well played.
Are there any Irish(in Ireland) still around? I am going to be there from the 1st to the 9th with my family on vacation.
I mean, probably an awful lot of them…
I was doing some taintenance and found dingleberries under my ball bag.
Somebody at work today cleverly posted the text of a JIRA task url, but linked to the OG rickroll video. It fooled everybody, yet didn't work because those of us who clicked it just saw a Nintendo Switch ad.
RIP rickrolling, end of an era.
THANKS GOOGLE
GOOGLE RUINED MY CHILDHOOD
I’m watching The Great Escape (for the fourth or fifth time) and hoping Steve McQueen makes it.
I’m watching The Great Escape (for the fourth or fifth time) and hoping Steve McQueen makes it.
I heard Col Jerry “The dagger” Sage speak about his experiences during WWII and participating in the actual escape, it was awe inspiring (and in the back of my mind I was thinking ‘this seventy year old dude could probably kill me before I blinked’)
Edit - forgot to mention he was the inspiration for Steve McQueen’s character in case the context wasn’t obvious
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