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Keith Barrow wrote: aboot
Here you go![^]
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Oh dear, and on a Canadian website too. I confidently expect a crack squad of moose to arrive at your door and politely warn you eh.
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I wouldn't be surprised. It's been a weird week. Don't ask.
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I suppose is Checkov were a Scott he would say Halloween originated with the Scots...
Saw a movie called "Centurian" about the Picts defeating a Roman legion. Too much Scot stuff.
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It was a thing over here but became A THING in the states before returning back as something much bigger through tv and film in the last twenty years or so.
When I was a kid bonfire night was much, much more of a thing.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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We never went trick-or-treating but we did make turnip lanterns (with a string handle that also went through holes in the lid to keep it on), and I also remember dooking for apples (basin of water, apples floating in it, grab one with your mouth!).
The closest to trick-or-treating I remember other kids doing was "Penny for the Guy" - hauling a Guy around in a cartie or something and asking for money (for fireworks), thus effectively blurring the line between Halloween and Guy Fawkes night.
The turnip lantern was also kept until Guy Fawkes when it was used to light sparklers.
This was all in Aberdeen in the early 70's.
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Just had my parents round, here for my son's first "dookie apple". They spoke about making the lanterns, dressing up and going round people's houses, that was in the 50s. So it's been around here for at least that long.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
For the clueless, see this[^]
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The Oct Dec thing.
Yeah old.
:yawn:
Upvote for making me realise the date today.
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Octal. Hmm, 3 bits huh? Never seen it used my whole life.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Know what you mean, GCSE computer studies we had to learn how to do it (and hex), started programming assembly thinking it might come in useful (use hex pretty much every project) Octal never!
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You never programmed on any old DEC equipment (such as the PDP-8[^]), where octal was the standard. Any machine that had a 12-bit word typically used octal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm not quite mature enough to have used such a thing. Even so, surely 3 hexidecimal digits would have been more use than 4 octal?
Anything not a power of 2 goes against things rather, but perhaps people were happy stopping at 7 rather than the more obscure 0xf.
When people start taking my idea of a 33 bit processor seriously, then perhaps it will have a resurgence!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's a stretch.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I thought it was going to be about corned beef...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Now I am hungry. Let the games begin.
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Hey, if you have to explain a joke...
Or rather, if you have to explain that joke, you're not on CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Write a Halloween or scary microfiction, a complete story in only 55 words including title.
Unexpected Visitors
The Thing stepped through the portal, three tentacles picking up Professor Smith while a fourth smashed the emergency override.
“How kind of you to invite us to dinner,” it rumbled as a second Thing stepped through, then a third. “We will have such a delicious time on your world, I am quite certain.”
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Boo!
Boo!
The end.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Smarter than the average bear?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Forogar wrote: Boo!
Boo Who!
Why are you crying?
FTFY
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Quote: Why are you crying? ...because you have just butchered my artistic, minimalist, deep, intellectual work with your crass editing bordering on vandalism!
Not that I care very much really...no, really, I don't care. I dont! Don't try and say I do because I don't, you hear me? Huh? Huh? Huh?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Unexpected Visitors
Welcome to Dr Fibula's House of Terror said the limping flunky as he opened the door.
There, sat in his sofa of reasonable comfort was the Doctor.
"I have been expecting you" he said.
"Surely not" I replied, opening my briefcase and extracting the small Hello Kitty Death-o-matic ray gun.
I shot the flunky.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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We're Doomed
The Scotsman rolled his eyes and leaned closer.
"Have you heard the story about the ooooooooold empty barn?" he whispered mysteriously.
"......there was nothing in it."
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