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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    TJohn said:

    PerttiA said:

    TJohn said:

    Mystiara said:

    is breakfast time, brings with it a quandary.

     

     I've never eaten a quandry. But Im guessing they taste more or less like chicken.

    Doesn't everything taste like chicken? 

    More or less. 

     

    quandary tastes better with ranch dressing 

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    my 6 core computer is out of commission.  no Daz 3D art anytime soon.  May post bryce art online.  Shame cuz i was trying to save money for an external hard drive.  I don't know when I'll be able to buy a new computer.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085

    Chohole was a great moderator and human being...and on-line friend for years before at Renderosity.

    The world and my world will be poorer without her.

    I can only mourn for now.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    Oh no! Not Lady Chohole! Oh dear! Oh no!
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    I eat astronaut ice cream sandwich right now. It isn't messy like the original kind. A friend gave it to me.
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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    I'd already missed her and was about to ask.  So unexpected. :-(

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    storm hit.  was at dr office waiting for scat bus.  lightning close ,jumped outta my skin,  holey.  flash flooding on the roads.

    cookin grits to warms my insides.  no bacon, but dollops o kerrygold butter

    feek kuje i could sleep a week

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,033

    Apparently the Gundam movie I watched was compiled from footage of the series. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    broken heart

    i remember her posting that her cb handle was delta dawn

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2021

    trivia

    burt reynolds on hollywood squarea, was that the start of his career slide?

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023
    edited July 2021

    ...ugh, Clodflare is still giving Bad Gateway errors. How long is this going to go on?

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485
    edited July 2021

    Mystiara said:

    trivia

    burt reynolds on hollywood squarea, was that the start of his career slide?

    Ooh, ooh, Burt Reynolds and Paul Lynde two of my heros. yes  (A third being pre-ghosts Ebenezer Scrooge.cheeky)  And a fourth being Stephen Hawking.smiley

    You know you're old when all your heros are dead (or imaginary).frown  At least I still have Roger Penrose.yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose

     

    [I miss Chohole]sad

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    found 2 more utoobs of the paul lynde zingers. he was brilliant

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited July 2021

    kyoto kid said:

    ...ugh, Clodflare is still giving Bad Gateway errors. How long is this going to go on?

    It's hard to say... this has been a problem throughout history... In ancient times people believed there were many different reasons for this problem.
    The Germanic tribes believed it was caused by "Elektronenzwerge"... or "Electron Gnomes" in German folklore these tiny ethereal creatures resided in crappy software and would eat random bits code causing internet connections to faint...
    The ancient Greeks called them "Fantásmata Ypologistón" or "Computer Ghosts"... they believed that Hades created five hundred and two of them and released them into the clouds of Olympus where the other gods kept their servers, as revenge for Apollo continuously parking in his reserved space...
    In ancient Babylon, it was believed that Nergal the god of the underworld took revenge on Devops the gatekeeper of the etherclouds and unleashed the three demons Paas, Iaas and Saas to torment him by pooping in the gateways, stopping the flow of data hamsters in and out of Etemenanki, the ziggurat Marduk used to access his ISP.

    To this day nobody knows what causes the problem and how to stop it... The ancients had many remedies they believed would ward off the offending spirits...
    The Germans would consume thick cabbage stews in hopes the ensuing flatulence would drive away evil spirits, while the Romans would curse and make rude hand gestures at their computers and the Greeks would slather themselves in garlic and slap their modems with a large fish...
    Despite all these innovative ideas, the problem still persists... the best advice I can offer is to do what Samuel Clemens would do... try leaving an open can of sardines on top of your computer for several days and see if that makes any difference... if it worked for Mark Twain, it can't be that wrong.

    But yeah... I've been having the same problem too.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    When did Mark Twain had his computer?
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

    she's about to blow captain.

    Tropical Storm Warning is in effect

    https://weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/d0a2de41181f63121f10d4531d678a573d74188b19d409fd7a4dd2efdf1f95fb?phenomena=TR&significance=W&areaid=NYZ078&office=KOKX&etn=1005

     

    - THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for wind 39 to 57 mph - The wind threat has remained nearly steady from the previous assessment. - PLAN: Plan for hazardous wind of equivalent tropical storm force. - PREPARE: Efforts to protect property should now be underway. Prepare for limited wind damage. - ACT: Act now to complete preparations before the wind becomes hazardous.

    i got a few lawn chairs outside.  guess i should fold em up and pack em down.

     

     

     

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!


     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,085

    Speaking of Tesla, well, McGyver was...

    https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!

    I thought he was getting nerve damage from the shocks and Tesla modified the computer to produce images by using magnetic field to arrange steel filings on a table top?

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    TJohn said:

    Speaking of Tesla, well, McGyver was...

    https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons

    The bird in the photo at the head of that article is not a pigeon!  It is a Mourning Dove!  Nice research.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,198

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!


     

    You do realize that once this gets out in the Internet, there are people who will believe everything you said, don't you?    laugh  Somone will fail a history exam as a result!  laugh

    Dana

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    There are already too many people who are too gullible. Oh by the way gullible isn't in the dictionary.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    DanaTA said:

    TJohn said:

    Speaking of Tesla, well, McGyver was...

    https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons

    The bird in the photo at the head of that article is not a pigeon!  It is a Mourning Dove!  Nice research.

    Dana

    I thought that doves were just pigeon royalty. indecision 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    Mystiara said:

    BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES

    she's about to blow captain.

    Tropical Storm Warning is in effect

    https://weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/d0a2de41181f63121f10d4531d678a573d74188b19d409fd7a4dd2efdf1f95fb?phenomena=TR&significance=W&areaid=NYZ078&office=KOKX&etn=1005

     

    - THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY THAT INCLUDES TYPICAL FORECAST UNCERTAINTY IN TRACK, SIZE AND INTENSITY: Potential for wind 39 to 57 mph - The wind threat has remained nearly steady from the previous assessment. - PLAN: Plan for hazardous wind of equivalent tropical storm force. - PREPARE: Efforts to protect property should now be underway. Prepare for limited wind damage. - ACT: Act now to complete preparations before the wind becomes hazardous.

    i got a few lawn chairs outside.  guess i should fold em up and pack em down.

     

    ..yeah saw vids of flooding in the subways this morning. Didn't look good. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,023

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!


     

    ...hmm, 1848, the year Wisconsin became the 30h state in the Union   Wonder if cheese had anything to do with the advancement of computer technology then. There was String Cheese theory and bier käse is even more pungent than sardines.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    Does anyone know how to speak Fly? I have to tell one something important.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,485

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Does anyone know how to speak Fly? I have to tell one something important.

    Know the phrase "i'd like to be a fly on the wall  in ..."?  Apparently fly-on-the-wall type of flies already understand whatever language required.   indecision

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    Does anyone know how to speak Fly? I have to tell one something important.

    Know the phrase "i'd like to be a fly on the wall  in ..."?  Apparently fly-on-the-wall type of flies already understand whatever language required.   indecision

    I lost the location of said fly.
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    DanaTA said:

    McGyver said:

    Miss Bad Wolfie said:

    When did Mark Twain had his computer?

    I'm glad you asked... 

    Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, which was actually his real name, so technically, he was "also known as" Mark Twain. 
    Mark Twain got his first computer, an early wooden Tandy RECW000 built by The Rochester Electro-Computational Works in 1848, shortly before he got his first job as a printer's apprentice... back then this involved being hooked up to a steam computer and writing down on paper various images and words based on the complicated series of electric shocks one received from the computer.
    Throughout his life he owned many computers... But it should come as no surprise that Clemens was an early adopter of such technology given that he was a close friend of Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the robot Elon Musk, who would latter found the company named after Nikola Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla who was also an Eastern Orthodox priest, so technically his father was Father Tesla, which is irrelevant because either way they both had the same last name and Muskbot might just have been messing with people like when he smoke a ton of pot during a live interview about robots who run big companies.

    Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry and he developed a close and lasting friendship with Tesla and the two spent much time together in his laboratory… Presumably none of which involved electrocuting elephants like Thomas Edison did with his friends. 
    In fact, Tesla even claimed Twain's stories helped him miraculously recover from an illness when he was living in Tomingaj, Croatia in 1874, and Twain's novel, "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" was inspired by one of Tesla's many time machines he had laying around his shop.

    So yes, unless I'm severely mistaken, Mark Twain's first computer was probably purchased around 1848 or so.

    Also, I could be blending in real facts with stuff that may not be entirely bound by factual anchors, but that's the fun part about history... discovering the truth!


     

    You do realize that once this gets out in the Internet, there are people who will believe everything you said, don't you?    laugh  Somone will fail a history exam as a result!  laugh

    Dana

    Technically, there is a kernel of truth in most of that... the challenge is to figure out what is relevant to this timeline...

    Twain and Tesla were good friends and they never electrocuted a single elephant together... that was more of an Edison thing.

    Tesla's father (Milutin) was a priest...

    Elon Musk is a cyborg*...

    Tesla had a fascination with wireless power transmission and electromagnetism and some aspects of his theoretical research into these concepts did find their way into different applications such as the the US Navy's WW2 experiments with degaussing ships to make them less likely to trigger magnetic mines, and devices which could interfere with enemy radar...
    None of which proved practical, but did lead to the rumor of the U.S.S. Eldridge being the subject of a time travel/teleportation experiment more commonly known as "The Philadelphia Experiment"... additionally some claim links between Tesla's experiments at his Wardenclyffe laboratory on Long Island and the Camp Hero Air Force Station in Montauk Long Island, the site which was supposedly a military research lab conducting time travel experiments (it was also the original location for the events portrayed in Stranger Things, before they changed the location to Hawkins, Indiana)... Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory has lots of fascinating/crazy rumors and myths associated with it.

    Mark Twain's real middle name was Langhorne...

    In 1837 Charles Babbage first described his "Analytical Engine" which was basically steam (or water) powered mechanical computer... although it was never actually built due to disputes with the chief engineer of the project, as well a lack of adequate funding, it has been proven to be practical... additionally, the programming language which was to be employed would have been similar to Assembly Language and thus would have made the device Turing-complete.

    The young Samuel Clemens did work as a printer's apprentice in 1848.

     

    * I can't prove this yet, but I know it's true.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,220
    :) Elon Musk? Is that the dude with a car or a different dude?
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