Octopus Overlords

Posted: **Mon Jan 16, 2017 12:01 pm**

Hover: Plus, time's all weird in there, so most of it probably broke down and decomposed hundreds of years ago. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to get in touch with Yucca Mountain to see if they're interested in a partnership.

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:23 pm**

Hover: Texting should work. Unless the message is too long, in which case it gets converted to voicemails, and I think I'm locked out of my voicemail.

Posted: **Sat Jan 28, 2017 11:12 am**

On the other hand, the refractor's limited light-gathering means it's unable to make out shadow people or the dark god Chernabog.

Posted: **Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:28 pm**

This is just beautiful...

"Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation."

Posted: **Fri Mar 03, 2017 12:43 pm**

From the Been There, Done That files:

'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:37 pm**

"I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway."

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:43 pm**

Not in the same zip code of that complex but so friggen true.

No phone and no in person?

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:47 pm**

LordMortis wrote:No phone and no in person?

What are those?

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:01 pm**

LordMortis wrote:No phone... ?

SMS is on there.

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:07 pm**

stessier wrote:
LordMortis wrote:No phone... ?
SMS is on there.

l.o.l.

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:11 pm**

GreenGoo wrote:l.o.l.

+1

I have 6 ways to talk to someone in the office alone.

in person (which building are we meeting up in? as of today, there are 8 at my location)
phone (desk or mobile - desk phone are dying, I disconnected mine, but people still use them)
email
skype
slack (which channel, take your pick! I might see it eventually)

Hmm, there was a sixth when I was counting them in my head. I guess it would be SMS/iMessage (no, I don't differentiate them since they are the same app on my phone and the only way I know the difference is the color of the bubble).

The only one I add outside work is Facebook Messenger. Technically you can talk to be on steam, uplay, xblive, psn,origin, etc, but I hope you aren't looking for a response.

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:24 pm**

in person (which building are we meeting up in? as of today, there are 8 at my location)
phone (desk or mobile - desk phone are dying, I disconnected mine, but people still use them)
email
skype
SMS
at least four different applications where you write something in the damned application and then the application sends you an email to tell you to check in to the application to respond without telling you what the damned thing is you are supposed to respond to.

Posted: **Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:18 pm**

♫ When the spacing is tight / And the difference is slight / That's a moiré ♫

Posted: **Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:28 pm**

In case anyone else has no idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

In mathematics, physics, and art, a moiré pattern (/mwɑːrˈeɪ/; French: [mwaˈʁe]) or moiré fringes[1] are large scale interference patterns that can be produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern. For the moiré interference pattern to appear, the two patterns must not be completely identical in that they must be displaced, rotated, etc., or have different but similar pitch.
Moiré patterns appear in many different situations. In printing, the printed pattern of dots can negatively interfere with the image. In television and digital photography, a pattern on an object being photographed can interfere with the shape of the light sensors to generate unwanted artifacts. They are also sometimes created deliberately- in micrometers they are used to amplify the effects of very small movements.

Posted: **Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:33 pm**

They also appear frequently during the design of handheld LCD devices.

Posted: **Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:41 am**

Be careful—it's breeding season, and some of these can be *extremely* defensive of their nests.

Posted: **Mon May 22, 2017 11:56 am**

That's very exciting! The bad news is that it's a risk factor for a lot of things.

Posted: **Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:57 am**

Russell's Teapot

Damn you xkcd...now I have to go look that up.

"Unfortunately, NASA regulations state that Bertrand Russell-related payloads can only be launched within launch vehicles which do not launch themselves."

Posted: **Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:05 am**

Bakhtosh wrote: Damn you xkcd...now I have to go look that up.

From Wikipedia:

Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.

Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion.[1] He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.

Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.

Posted: **Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:51 am**

Posted: **Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:45 am**

Over the years I've decided I'd rather have them on than not, but I'm glad there aren't "has opened a blank note to compose a reply to you" notifications.

Posted: **Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:18 pm**

Posted: **Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:31 am**

I had some important research to do on proposed interstellar space missions, basketball statistics, canceled skyscrapers, and every article linked from "Women in warfare and the military in the 19th century.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:41 am**

Sorry, Yoopers.

A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:57 am**

If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:19 pm**

You should get South Bend as well. Gary would be safe, but not by much.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:26 pm**

The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!

There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:29 pm**

killbot737 wrote:
The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.

Very interesting read!

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:35 pm**

Z-Corn wrote:
killbot737 wrote:
The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.
Very interesting read!

And here I thought we ceded Toledo by making them keep Cleveland.

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:05 pm**

"I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by ... well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I'll create a spreadsheet ..."

Posted: **Fri Oct 27, 2017 12:08 pm**

Spreadsheet?

I started off with countless problems. But now I know, thanks to COUNT(), that I have "#REF! ERROR: Circular dependency detected" problems.

Posted: **Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:10 am**

Spent about a minute laughing at the Alt text on this one:
https://xkcd.com/1912/

Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you.

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:51 am**

"No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!"

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:32 pm**

In case anyone needs a reason to never make a political donation, be prepared for the spam that follows:

"The establishment doesn't take us seriously. You know who else they didn't take seriously? Hitler. I'll be like him, but a GOOD guy instead of..."

Posted: **Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:53 am**

"This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart." "That seems like a bad--" "BUT IT HAS THE PERFECT POCKET ARRANGEMENT!"

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:12 am**

"If most people turn into muderers all of a sudden, we'll need to push out a firmware update or something."

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:30 pm**

"[They do not move.]"

Probably more than a few of us in this situation when it comes to social interactions.

Posted: **Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:52 pm**

I am social butterfly! Oh look a pretty light!!!

Posted: **Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:46 am**

"Just tell me everything you're thinking about in order from most important to last, and then we'll be friends and we can eat apples together."

Posted: **Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:23 am**

I also was obsessed with Turkish Delight as a kid after reading those books. I was so disappointed when I finally tried it a few years back.

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