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No bull?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: You owe me a life.
Which movie?
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Debbie Did Rumpelstiltskin???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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And his brother, Krumpleforeskin....
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The Starbucks movie - No milk today
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The Truman Show
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The second Life hacker
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Life and Debt 
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The Aristocats
(Don't cats have nine lives?)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 7-Oct-16 7:41am.
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ScienceMag.org, October, 6: "Humans aren’t the only great apes that can ‘read minds’"
Millions of obese couch-potatoes, posing as people, will fall asleep surfing redacted and FaceBook and Twitter tonight taking comfort from the fact that Science has found that other primates are aware when others are operating with "false beliefs."
Chimps, Orangs, and Bonobos, finally are recognized as equal to sub-humans like the Kardashians who have killer instincts for when someone else doesn't know they are between a Kardashian and a camera.
Of course, it's little comfort to we walking-erect big-headed critters viewing life through a gauze of intoxication from hormones, and through the glass of the webs of language darkly ... that there is no proof that our primate brethren and sistren are ever as disturbingly untroubled as we are by our unawareness of how unaware we are: [^].Quote: All great mind reading begins with chocolate. That’s the basis for a classic experiment that tests whether children have something called theory of mind—the ability to attribute desires, intentions, and knowledge to others. When they see someone hide a chocolate bar in a box, then leave the room while a second person sneaks in and hides it elsewhere, they have to guess where the first person will look for the bar. If they guess “in the original box,” they pass the test, and show they understand what’s going on in the first person’s mind—even when it doesn’t match reality.
For years, only humans were thought to have this key cognitive skill of attributing “false belief,” which is believed to underlie deception, empathy, teaching, and perhaps even language. But three species of great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans—also know when someone holds a false belief, according to a new study published today in Science. The groundbreaking study suggests that this skill likely can be traced back to the last common ancestor of great apes and humans, and may be found in other species.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Nicely written.
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Making Coffee[^]
I'm sure I've drank that coffee before...
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That explains it all.
I'm back in Melbourne aka The Only Place In The World That Makes Decent Coffee Except For A Small Roadside Cafe in Italy and am OD'ing pretty badly on the goodness while I can.
I'm already savouring the caffeine withdrawal headache I always get halfway across the Pacific when thre's still 8 more hours left in the flight. It's...poetic.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I hate to admit it but there used to be a little coffee shop in Pondichery that made the most exquisite espresso I have ever had.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"used to"
I have this conspiracy theory: Somewhere is a dept of unsmiling men in grey suits who go around looking for awesome places such as this alleged place of yours and, if they determine it makes awesome coffee, or has great paninis, or even just goes the extra mile with the pancakes at brunch, they shut it down.
OR worse: they instruct the chefs to modify the recipes. A little more high fructose corn syrup here, a little more scorching and souring of the milk there, and soon you have a place indistinguishable from the rest.
Every single cafe in Toronto we used to go to that started out awesome would, without exception, close or go down a dark path.
I think I've even spotted the cars these guys drive up in.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've drank
Mixing the passe-simple and passe compose?
'I drank' or 'I've drunk'.
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Tablet autocorrect: I think it knows I'm not Nagy...
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You think that's bad, when I was in the navy, I swear that the coffee wasn't brewed but delivered in large drums with markings like this:
CRUDE OIL COFFEE
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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As a non-coffee drinker, I can relate to that.
The alt-text is awesome.
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No.[^]
I would prefer the one at 1:06. I used to be good with this one and 1200 rounds per minute are about as much fun as this can get with only one barrel.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Drones seem to survive an inordinately long time, especially with that many idjits blasting away at them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You think 1200 rounds a minute is something?
This is my weapon of choice.
75 rounds a second is more my speed.
Firing that gun was fun, however, the maintenance on those things was a real pain!
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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