Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Davis himself had already kind of put Garfield on his hind legs, but his legs and feet were one enormous mass because he was a chunky cat. Davis clearly hadn’t had the idea to make the legs spindly and Snoopy-like, or else he didn’t think he could do that and not be in trouble from people like Schulz.
When Schulz drew Garfield with Snoopy legs, Davis was able to take that idea and run with it.
Hey, if it wasn’t for Peanuts, Garfield wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular as it was, and not least because Charles Schulz was a mentor of sorts to Jim Davis.
Based on the anecdote on Schulz’s Wikipedia page, Schulz may have been the first person to draw Garfield standing on two legs, as he (the cat) is best known, tacitly giving permission for Davis to steal that part of Snoopy’s design.
Haiku is what grew out of the ashes of BeOS. And if you’ve never heard of that, you’re no worse off. It was another Unix-alike that was neither Linux nor BSD which showed early promise but didn’t gain enough traction.
Greybeards are an increasingly rare commodity, it seems.
Life and reproduction are co-evolved emergent phenomena that sprang from a chemical accident where a molecule inadvertently found a way to replicate itself.
… but actually it might be more complicated than that. There might have been a set of molecules and chemical interactions that weren’t quite self-replicating but ultimately led to that self-replicating molecule. However, once that exists, you end up with a runaway chemical reaction that can last for literally billions of years.
TL;DR primordial soup is an ignition starter motor.
Fun fact: The Proto-Indo-European ancestor language has (or rather had) two words for a fart. One which is the ancestor of “fart” and another for which no descendant exists in English. That word was for silent farts. Curiously though, that word is the ancestor of the French word for fart, “pet”.
If it had made it to English, it would probably be something like “fast” - and it’s immediately obvious why it doesn’t exist, because there’s an important word with a completely different meaning occupying that niche.
Vowels are somewhat negotiable though, so we could opt for the next best, which is “fest”, which can’t have existed or else we probably wouldn’t have adopted the current meaning from French (and/or German).
“Fust” on the other hand, well, that’s interesting. It’s a word that means a musty smell and supposedly derives from a completely different root, but the similarity and onomatopoeia make me wonder…
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I’d say “I wish” but the guy’s been through some s**t, so I’m not sure I’d swap my life for his.
And since I’m older, shorter and balder, I’m not sure he’d want to swap either.
Firstly, if he’s reposting using his own account, he’s not being deceptive, which he could easily be. (See: The Unidan debacle)
Second, he gets right up the chuff of right-wingers and other people who ought to know better, or at least he preaches from that platform, fake or not. Being self-aggrandising and cocky is usually the sort of thing right-wingers do, so it’s throwing it back in their faces.
And having watched some of his stuff, I think at least some of the hecklers are genuine (if not all of them). There’s one where some nut got kicked out and then lurked outside the venue waiting for him. I don’t think that was made up.
You weren’t someone who got owned at one of his shows, were you?
That just means that the lowly, customer-facing peons that work for government offices don’t have access to any such master database.
Most people work for companies that hold information inaccessible to them. Other government databases would definitely be on that list.
Someone else’s children are two whole levels removed from the heart of a selfish person. High petrol prices stab at the selfish heart directly, and so something must be done.
You mean to tell me that such a database doesn’t already exist?
Spidey wears his under his clothes. So does Superman for that matter. Spidey keeps his mask in a pocket.
The tricky part is what they do with their regular clothes when they’re busy being a hero.
At least in Spider-Man’s case, the comics have shown that he spins a bag to put the clothes in and hangs it in an out-of-the-way place.
What Superman does is less clear, but he can move at impossible speeds, so he might just fold them neatly and take them home, still leaving ample time to do whatever he needs.
Dogs bark. Dogs pee on trees. Trees have bark. Coincidence? You can have that for free. (And to save you time, if you go back to Proto-Indo-European, the only difference between the root words is an extra laryngeal consonant, so they could quite easily be the same thing differentiated by some weird grammatical quirk. Or by watching a dog mark its territory.)
T-rex: “Aw dammit I could have come up with that”
This sent me down the rabbit hole of checking on the status of various meme cats. The news is not good.
Cheezburger Cat died in 2021. Long Cat died in 2020. They both outlived Grumpy Cat who passed in 2019.
Technically, I had remembered that they were all no longer with us before looking them up, but the dates had escaped my memory.
But on a lighter note, it seems that Business Cat may still be with us. At least, I can’t find any mention of him having passed.
Sometimes the only real options are “bad” and “less bad”. An uncomfortable echo of something else we’re all familiar with, perhaps.
This does not mean that we should not criticise the less bad option, only that we should not switch to the the bad option.
I hope being part of the British Commonwealth doesn’t exclude them.
Not being sarcastic.
The link, however tenuous, to Britain and our asinine degree of exceptionalism shouldn’t be a stumbling block, but I can see Europe - especially France - considering that to be a problem.
Black and white 80x25 BIOS text screen with the IBM PC ROM font, not unlike the MS-DOS it sought to replace.
Everything else is fluff on top of that, possibly occupying different graphics planes available in whatever hardware is available.
Yes, technically modern PCs and Linux have moved beyond that 80x25 screen for the most part, but its immediate descendant is still in use, often during boot, but also on Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] on many distros.
There’s an ancient UNIX copypasta that’s basically the plot of this comic, but it’s troublingly hard to find the original online.
Here’s one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html
I don’t remember “technocrat” being part of the original, but it wouldn’t be the first time my recollection has been wrong.
The BeOS command line command set were all borrowed from or based upon Unix and/or Linux (IIRC many were straight from GNU), which is the basis for my comparison.
The kernel and graphics were all from-scratch and radically different from Linux, sure, but the same could be said of Linux when compared to the original Unix, or any of the BSDs.