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Flamer's Corner / Re: I am want to meet a good boy..« on: December 01, 2014, 04:02:21 PM »
There are times when I don't understand people loving sport and.
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread« on: November 27, 2014, 07:56:53 PM »
Thappy Hanksgiving, geeks. I less than three y'all. Wait. I less than three most of ya.
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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: November 24, 2014, 07:46:27 PM »
My selfie game was not quite on point this weekend, so I cheated.
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Anarchy / Re: MAKING A VIDEO GAME-NEED HELP« on: November 24, 2014, 07:44:44 PM »
I hate Kickstarter, too. Kickstarter betrayed and murdered my father! Since then I've been sworn to vengeance and have been working on my Visual Basic skills. Soon I will have my revenge! Or a blue screen of death. Whatever.
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Entertainment / Re: I like my _______ like I like my ______.« on: November 17, 2014, 05:17:45 PM »
[10:39] zorgon non sequitur: HOLY SHIT http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30083969
[10:40] Shifty gourmet coffee+monitor [10:41] zorgon damn if the probe hadn't bounced it would have been fantastic [10:41] zorgon article also says they broke the thermometer trying to stick it into the ground [10:41] zorgon so basically their entire notion of what the comet is made of is basically wrong [10:41] zorgon I bet the harpoons bounced and just fired the probe back up into space [10:41] reimero Well fuck [10:41] zorgon it's still in freaking credible [10:42] reimero That means the emergency plans to build space-capable nukes to avert tsunami-causing impacts were all for naught [10:42] zorgon I bet they're thinking that [10:44] zorgon I like my women like I like my comet nuclei: made of rubble but unexpectedly firm [10:46] Shifty smelling like sulfur [10:46] Shifty spewing out a trail of gas for a million miles when placed in the sun [10:46] reimero In a vacuum [10:47] Shifty fun to bounce probes off of [10:47] zorgon :galm: [10:47] reimero misunderstood by men [10:47] zorgon packing cyanide [10:47] reimero frigid [10:48] Shifty containing my complex proteins, if you know what I mean [10:48] zorgon on a parabolic orbit that might never return [10:48] catwritr Probably housing an alien [10:48] Shifty From the Oort Cloud. [10:49] reimero Heralding doom and destruction [10:49] zorgon only comes once every 76 years ... oh wait, that's Hailey, never mind you don't know her [10:50] reimero Viewed through powerful telescopes [10:50] zorgon occasionally with the naked eye [10:51] catwritr will almost definitely destroy your world [10:51] reimero Wielding a spatula [10:56] |<-- TameableExpert has left irc.hackess.com (Quit: ) [10:58] BizB impervious to harpoons [11:02] Shifty Travels in an ellipse 35
Entertainment / Re: Earliest Gaming Memory« on: November 10, 2014, 07:22:53 PM »Whoa. </keanu> That's awesome. I was the first kid on the block to know the word "gigaflop." Lockheed built the first-generation thermal protective system tiles for the Space Shuttle. The shape of each tile was unique (there were ... I had to look this up ... >24000 tiles). They all had curved and non-spherical surfaces. And the tolerances were extreme, I think he said a mille (1/1000 of an inch). Otherwise, you know, fire gets between the tiles and yeah. We know. HERE'S THE FUN PART. The tiles were roughed out from this raw silica foam stuff, then baked, then machined, then the business end was covered with a hard glass-like surface, then they were baked again. Each time you baked the tile it shrank a bit. The amount it shrank was a function of the thickness of the tile at any given point ... absolutely insane. Dad's job was to figure out how big the tiles had to be before they baked the so they ended up perfect after the second bake. He needed a supercomputer. Keep in mind this was, like, 1976. There was this outfit in suburban Bahhston called PR1ME that sold a mini-supercomputer that was capable of a gigaflop (I suspect everyone here knows that this means a billion floating point operations per second). He came home from a sales meeting laughing like hell about this ridiculous word. About 25 years before this capability got to the desktop. ETA: He was sure it wasn't work. He told me while drunk that "those things will be falling off all over Kansas." He was wrong about that, they worked great. It was a completely different kind of thermal protection that had the ice bash damage that lost Columbia. He wouldn't have a personal computer in the house. He thought they were worthless expensive toys. So my gaming background is ... not what it could have been :galm: 36
Entertainment / Re: Earliest Gaming Memory« on: November 10, 2014, 09:58:49 AM »
Occasionally my dad would bring home a teletype for working from home. A big suitcase type thing with an acoustic coupling modem (sockets for the handset, etc), dialed into a service called TYMSHARE. I have no idea what the mainframe was. The terminal was a thermal printer, believe it or not, quite advanced. But, no screen, right? A line printer. You typed the commands, the computer replied, they printed out on paper that scrolled up like out of a typewriter. ANYWAY. The Watergate hearings were on, so this was, like, 1974.
There was a football game on the computer. It was pretty straightforward. I think you typed "P" to pass, etc, and you typed the names of the teams in at the beginning. That's about all I remember. That's the first computer game I played. Also there was a Star Trek game, but I couldn't figure out how to access it. My dad tried to teach me FORTRAN, but I'd rather just play the games. He was pretty disgusted. Oh and context: my dad did spacecraft structures for Lockheed, so at the time he was either working on their unsuccessful bid to build the Space Shuttle, or early designs of the Large Space Telescope (which got smaller, then was named Hubble) (he didn't bring the terminal home to work on spy satellite stuff) 37
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: Band Names« on: November 06, 2014, 11:26:14 PM »
BLENDER OF OBLIVION is a pretty good band name all on it's own :hmm:
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Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: The Dream Journal« on: November 06, 2014, 11:19:58 PM »
I went through a period of having very vivid, very plausible dreams that leaked away when I woke up, leaving only the memory of having dreamed vivid and plausible dreams. Lately I've had none. Lately I've been knocking myself down with Benadryl, which miiiiiiight have something to do with it.
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Anarchy / Re: Dopplegangers« on: November 03, 2014, 03:00:19 PM »
I used to get Chris Elliott a lot. Not so much any more. I've still got hair. On my head. Anyway.
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Anarchy / Re: Dopplegangers« on: November 03, 2014, 01:22:35 PM »OTOH, there was a zorgon clone at the pizza place last night. Like, so convincing that I'm sure the guy thought I was one of those staring weirdos. Oh crap there's another one? That makes like five. Who would do this? Why? *checks google for mad scientist ex-girlfriends* 43
Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: November 01, 2014, 10:50:45 PM »
that's awesome Jaepheth
Meanwhile, I'm suffering the consequences of a new brewery grand opening a couple blocks from here 44
Hardware, Software, and Other Imperialist Crap / Re: Mobile Wallet Wars« on: October 30, 2014, 02:51:40 PM »
El oh El
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Anarchy / Re: Selfie of the Day« on: October 27, 2014, 09:54:36 PM »
smells like
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Entertainment / Re: Biology Quiz & Gelluloid Pro announced« on: October 27, 2014, 10:47:27 AM »
Your mom
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New Geeks on the Block / Re: What is this??« on: October 17, 2014, 11:04:49 PM »
Well ... I have these jumper cables and the spare car battery. Anyone else want 12 VDC across their nipples?
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New Geeks on the Block / Re: What is this??« on: October 17, 2014, 04:26:06 PM »
There's nipple?
I'll get the jumper cables. 49
Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) / Re: #HN Bash« on: October 15, 2014, 12:23:27 AM »
Who's the programmer chick that's a sex machine with all the geeks?
{hackess} YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT 50
New Geeks on the Block / Re: Hi I'm Daisy and just signed up here:)« on: October 15, 2014, 12:21:45 AM »
She probably read a few threads, recoiled in horror, and fled screaming.
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