Friday Ephemeraren’t
As I’m still finding my footing after the holiday interlude, I’m afraid you’ll have to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. I’ll set the ball rolling with some competitive fashion, a wearable compass, assorted Hungarian fishing huts, the sturdy tape breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for, some declassified CIA maps, and a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.
Play nicely. No biting.
The pocket-friendly duct tape is nice, but my daughter has prior art. At least ten years ago she habitually carried a couple yards wrapped around an old credit card.
Sigh. Missed business opportunity.
Just updated the OS on a secondary computer. Once I get the new bells and whistles sorted out, I’ll do the same for the primary computer and continue from there . . .
And one of these days, I really need to go digging all the way into the plumbing . . .
Hal,
I have a copy of (I think) Version 6 Unix sources, if you wanna go really hard core and skip that “official” BSD training.
Of course, it’s on a 1/2×6 inch reel of 6250 bpi magtape. Good luck reading it. Probably it’s the VAX 780 version, or maybe even PDP-11/70.
Of course, it’s on a 1/2×6 inch reel of 6250 bpi magtape.
Ah, yes, that little issue . . .
Or one can drop $40 for a current media study copy of all the assorted related OSes . . .
What on earth did that guy use to render the tediously accurate scale map of the solar system?
SWIDT?
What on earth did that guy use to render the tediously accurate scale map of the solar system?
Some sort of software I expect . . .
Just updated the OS on a secondary computer.
It’s nice to see BSD undergoing the same incompatible distribution-and-packaging-format diaspora as Linux.
. . . the same incompatible distribution-and-packaging-format diaspora as Linux.
Not really, unless there’s something you’re thinking of specifically.
The snafu with Linux has always been that Linus does the kernel and doesn’t bother with the general distributions of kernel and other. Following that, everyone else then does what they want to assemble and package and install their version of other that gets wrapped around the kernel, resulting in all those distributions.
For the BSDs, they’ve stayed as monolithic projects of kernel and other, where TrueOS is simply the latest edition of FreeBSD with a windowed installation from the start, and the preassembled package installation—Where the packaging model, as I recall, has gotten adopted elsewhere in the BSDs anyway, so that just serves as further reinforcement of the continuing overall monolithic aspects.
It is tedious, isn’t it?
Not really, unless there’s something you’re thinking of specifically.
Never mind, I see they’ve deprecated PBI in favour of pkg. I run PC-BSD on an old laptop myself.
a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.
Mostly space then.
Can we burn down Buzzfeed yet?
https://twitter.com/YeyoZa/status/816938091298570241
Can we burn down Buzzfeed yet?
As noted down the thread, the people at Buzzfeed really do like their racist headlines.
[ Added: ]
I suppose you have to wonder how many English graduates, schooled in the evils of “white privilege” and saddled with near-useless degrees – people like the unlovely Hannah Brooks Olsen – will end up seeking employment at places like Buzzfeed or Everyday Feminism, where they’ll churn out equally poisonous trash. Week after week.
Star Wars Intro Generator
(Sorry if it’s been posted already.)
As I’m still finding my footing after the holiday interlude
It must have been epic.
Star Wars Intro Generator
I was just watching this video on the digital resurrection of Peter Cushing and Grand Moff Tarkin.
If you open the tedious model of the solar system and hit Ctrl-U (at least in most browsers I know), you will be directed to source code explaining how it’s constructed with element placement and pixel counts. Excerpted:
It must have been epic.
Nothing terribly debauched. Nothing I’ll admit to, anyway. It’s more that after a couple of weeks of being happily disconnected from politics, academia, etc., it takes a while to get back in the swing of it all. You have to get past the natural gag reflex.
a tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.
Mostly space then.
I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
Drive-in Sunday/Skeletons in the closet/The Band, before they became The Band/Car sculptures?.
A tasty burger.
Ice sculptures.
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/01/the-2016-harbin-ice-and-snow-festival/422655/
A tasty burger.
It’s barely 11am and I’m already thinking about lunch.
Why I Married Myself
Because never before in history have single women had meaningful lives without narcissistic ceremonies. One has to read the whole thing, it is a warehouse full of crazy.
Can we burn down Buzzfeed yet?
Buzzfeed is pure, distilled clickbait, and their “listicles” all look like pop-up spam – the kind you wonder if they’ll install malware if you click on them. Scrolling through their front page trying to find the article in question (which one Tweeter claimed was “humor”), I could feel IQ points being sucked out of my brain. What utter garbage.
Okay, I found the link. It is a joke list. It’s about stupid things people do in “infomercials” that no one ever does in real life. But the readers’ comments are even worse. Damn, the internet is fully of supposedly “educated” people who are just plain stupid. It’s almost as if they’ve been indoctrinated…
“Because never before in history have single women had meaningful lives without narcissistic ceremonies. One has to read the whole thing, it is a warehouse full of crazy.”
Didn’t Doonesbury do a riff on this 25 years ago, when he was still funny? IIRC, when the preacher got to the ‘does anyone have any reason’ stage, an unknown admirer of the nitwi… bride spoke out. Her reaction? “Thank God!”
“Damn, the internet is fully of supposedly “educated” people who are just plain stupid.”
Nah. It’s September 8529th, 1993. The internet is full of idiots.
(Related ephemera. Although can something that long-lived truly be called ephemeral?)
You have to get past the natural gag reflex.
Excuse me?!
A wild and crazy guy.
A wild and crazy guy.
I can’t help feeling there’s some kind of lesson to be learned.
Sam Duncan,
Nah. It’s September 8529th, 1993.
Heh.
Or, as they say on 4Chan, “Sure is summer in here”.
Star Wars Intro Generator
It is amusing with text copied from one of these pages here . . .
It is amusing with text copied from one of these pages here…
The Year Reheated works quite well. At last, the cosmic grandeur I deserve.
The Year Reheated works quite well. At last, the cosmic grandeur I deserve.
Hmm. Playing the Imperial March on your honky-tonk in the corner does give it a certain something.
You have to get past the natural gag reflex.
I see what you did there…
In racist typo news:
There’s a hashtag and everything. Nearly as good as the Australian cookbook where one recipe called for “salt and ground black people”.
The BlackTwitter treatment of Rachel Dolezal had far more jokes in it.
In racist typo news:
Went to have a look, got sidetracked by a rather prominent ad.—Or at least it’s there at the moment, dunno what sort of rotation that page has . . .
So, while it’s universally acknowledged that there’s a hipster born every minute, apparently some hipsters are presumed to be right wing.
“The NHS is starved”
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/817699989132636160
Why I Married Myself
“Yet another woman forced to do all the cooking & cleaning in a marriage”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/817510843059343360
Why I Married Myself
This is why we pay our Guild of Evil dues. Good work, boys!
On a completely different tack, did anyone else here enjoy Rogue One as much as I did?
did anyone else here enjoy Rogue One as much as I did?
Haven’t seen it. I’m not a huge Star Wars fan, but it’s on my wait-until-it’s-on-Sky list.
Theophrastus,
Your question is a bit ambiguous, but speaking for myself the answer is almost certainly No.
Not as bad as “Man of Steel”, though.
Uber driver gives hardcore customer service.
The CIA’s “Cartographic Maps”
Isn’t that tautology? That said, I left school a while ago. Perhaps cartographical maps are now a sub-division of maps?
I’m rather luke-warm about Star Wars, but my wife and her brother are enthusiasts. Yet I went to see Rogue One, and I was absorbed because it had a self-contained storyline, characters I could relate to, a powerful sense of alien planets, no naff Star Wars humour and a moral theme – the nobility of sacrifice in war.
Hmm. Theophrastus shames me into posting more…
(When we do reviews of company presentations, we always start with the pros, so..) (no spoilers)
I liked, for instance:
Tudyk’s robot character. Comic relief without the stupidity of he-who-shall-not-be-named. And his ultimate fate was handled reasonably well.
Some of the planet sets, especially the low-rent districts. Dense with visual and auditory imagery without being distracting – this is a hard trick to pull off.
The female and male leads. Both more real as humans, with internal conflicts and layers of experiences.
The depiction of factional squabbling and the related political and moral issues.
The references, subtle and not, to other productions.
The visuals production quality.
I disliked:
The many very obvious video-game items, especially in and around the archive. The one scene where my son and I looked at each other and said “crates!” simultaneously.
The lighting, especially in the first half. At one point I was wondering if it was a 3D production, which often have this problem.
The pacing and editing. Perhaps some of my complaint here comes from the foreknowledge of the fundamentals of the ending, but I was frankly bored during several stretches. Also, unexplained and implausible segues.
I guess the basic problem I had with it was that many things I think of as technical production decisions spoiled the presentation of a solid premise.
For calibration purposes, y’all should know that I hated “Fury Road”.
Sure there are non-cartographic maps Lisboeta.
The schematic maps of the various world undergrounds being an example millions use every day, because they are much more useful than the cartographic versions.
“The last time Congressional Democrats peaceably accepted a GOP victory in the Electoral College was 1988. In 2000, 2004 and 2016, Democrats in Congress objected, tried to object, and generally disrupted the process of certifying the Electoral College vote. They did so with no substantive grounds, instead just for the political theater of it… This is part of a pattern of a specific species of political norm-smashing where Democrats seem to be leading the way: Refusing to concede when they lose.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/253955/