If I know my bad Japanese movies correctly, the radiation is going to mutate that robot until it is 80 feet tall and only Gamera will be able to stop it.

“How many Trixie Mattels can I get for this RuPaul?”

FWIW, I bought one for my wife, who is a library administrator, and she loves it. Not IT, but she does do a lot of work with things like XML.

Subway’s veggie patties are really good, but not every location has them. They’re really good because they don’t even try to make them taste like meat. I’m not sure if any of their breads are vegan though.

White Castle sliders at 2 am after drinking… I recommend.

Anyone remember the Zesty Chicken Bowl? That was the shit. I stopped going to Taco Bell when they got rid of it until my daughter decided that it was the best place ever for a while.

I am not super experienced in truck driving, but I think the reasonable (and rational) thing if I am driving a big truck, is to not take a chance and go under that if I don’t know how tall the truck is.

Ergonomic chairs are also a solution to an often self-inflicted problem. Mainly doing all kinds of things to your body when you’re young that you don’t realize you’ll regret when you’re older.

Are ergonomic chairs a bad thing?

Big Penny’s feet, obviously.

Thanks!

Maybe, but be nice to them, because they know who you are and they hold grudges.

https://www.livescience.com/23090-crows-grudges-brains.html

It seemed like the person I was talking to didn’t. The implication was that tape was viable as long-term storage. It isn’t. I’ve seen tapes rot after a year. DATs were especially prone to that, but even things like 2" multitrack audio tape can go bad that quickly.

As a former audio engineer in the days where we still used it- tape can rot.

But we do have originals of many other texts. Like vast, vast amounts of cuneiform texts because they were usually pressed into a clay tablet and then baked.

All but four Mayan paper codices were burned, but the Mayans loved carving their stories into rocks and making those rocks part of their cities’ architecture, so we still have a lot of their textual information. Same with the Egyptians- they wrote a lot on papyrus, and most of that is lost, but they also carved and painted all over tombs.

The secret is not to keep copying the texts. That introduces errors and those errors can compound. The secret is to preserve the texts in a medium which will only degrade over exceptionally long periods of time (compared to a human life, anyway).

If you had a device which could carve stored data into stone and make it retrievable again, you could potentially preserve that data for thousands of years.

Trust the Germans to make childhood playground injuries more efficient.

I have the world’s stupidest phobia: overflowing toilets.

If a toilet overflows, I end up in another room in a fetal position in tears feeling like a complete idiot for being terrified of water.

I’ve seen it more than once. I enjoy it. You do have to be prepared to accept the special effects levels at the time.

The problem with watching the movie for me now is that I know that the reason that Tippi Hedren gave such a believable performance in terms of being terrified is due to how Hitchcock terrified and assaulted her.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/31/tippi-hedren-alfred-hitchcock-sexually-assaulted-me

You don’t know how low-effort. I just reposted the screencap that a friend had posted elsewhere.

They stocked that for a while, but it kept summoning dark eldritch horrors in the frozen foods aisle.

Just for that, you are permabanned from Ten Forward.