Oh no!
Anyway, how’s your weekend been going?
A fellow Marlboro Coors Lite Ford Chevy SUV pickup banking insurance sportsball enthusiast, I see
2 years later, somewhere in their sales and marketing departments:
“Hey, you know what would make us even more money?”
“No, but do tell”
“Advertising”
“Genius - how is it nobody has ever thought of this before?”
Roku somehow thinking that the Ferengi rules of acquisition was a how-to guide book.
Jeff Geerling discusses having done the same, in one of his videos.
Ditto the keys per keyboard.
And the keys look like lightly toasted marshmallows.
Kicked out of an SX-70
Ruh roh
“This here’s the Lockpocking Lawyer, and today we’re going to take a closer look at the Flipper Zero….”
Now that’s a pretty cool bit of news :)
Interesting.
Will add that to my mental corkboard, thanks.
But Americans aren’t allowed to read the story anymore — by order of a court in India.
While the article starts out with what seems to be a decidedly “this is targeting Americans” bent, further reading clarifies that it’s a global thing, not specific to Americans at all.
🤔
Eisen meaning iron.
And Kot meaning vomit.
The phrase “zum kotzen” got burned into my memory decades ago.
“We have also developed a tomato which can eject itself when an accident is imminent.”
You wouldn’t get out of breath at the top of a staircase/big hill if there’s anyone nearby.
Instructions unclear - new energy vampire mode unlocked
You’re older than I am, but not by a lot.
My guidance counsellor moment was probably around 1975-76. I was deep into comp sci; a friend would tell me years later that the teacher knew less than at least a couple of us. I would ask him a question, he would say he’d look into it. Unbeknownst to me, he wandered over to the other advanced student (Phil) and put my question to him. Phil would reply, teacher would make his way back to me and share the knowledge. The same thing would happen if Phil had a question; teacher would come to me for the answer.
My friend watched this whole thing with amusement.
Now for the GC moment. Career counselling.
I went to the GC’s office full of electric enthusiasm, hoping to learn of the great CS things that awaited me after uni. I told him about my love and fascination with computers. He had the reaction, the kind a parent has when they need to tell their child their favourite pet has died. He told me that it might be fun and make for an interesting hobby, but that there were no computer-related careers. And that I should consider another vocation. I was crushed.
I even spent some years in university studying things that were unrelated to CS. My career didn’t get any traction until about 10 years after HS, unsurprisingly in the field I was most passionate about.
Anyway, I’ve been a computer professional for about 35 years now.
TIL, thanks
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