Humor Random Comments Thread

[Coolhand]

you asked if i had something playable, i sent you an experimental build 080417, and never heard from you since.

:lol: sounds about right, no i don't think i ever tried it in the end - probably something real life cropped up, hate it when that happens.:thumbup:

 

[Izack]

Python, of the Monty variety... Heard about SciPy and NumPy, and there are a few physics-related packages that make use of Python. Why don't they teach you Fortran?

(Internal editor's note: the sinister suggestion of teaching Haskell and Lisp during CS 101 was overruled by a very vocal majority)

Hmm, first class today and it turns out we're actually going to be using some monster called 'Jython...' a hybrid of (obviously) Java and Python with (still obviously) no practical application. :lol:

Also looks like the most we'll be doing is bitmap manipulation (true-colour to grayscale, greenscale, whatever)...guess I wasted all that time reading the assigned textbook on data storage and manipulation. Well, such is the freshman's lot.

 

[garyw]

Well, darn. Got my textbooks recently and it turns out we're kicking off Computer Science 101 with Python. Was hoping to be able to do something Orbiter-related as a project this term. :lol:

Lets see........ Python and Orbiter?

Snakes on a DG?

(sorry!)

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Is it sad that I recognise all but four or five of these?

 

[Spacethingy]

Drunk Swedish Moose Found In Tree

Now there's random for you.

 

[Linguofreak]

Is it sad that I recognise all but four or five of these?

They are, of course, missing probably the two most important game controllers of all time: The QWERTY keyboard and the mouse.

 

[Scruce]

Damn, first day of college tomorrow. Since my college has no uniform policy, what'll I wear? :uhh:

 

[Turbinator]

Doesn't matter what you wear, by the end of the frosh week everyone ends up looking like this:

 

[Scruce]

<- I have the suit on the left but I found it full of strange hair...

 

[Turbinator]

Found this online:

"My friend's 12 year old son asked me what these things were in my truck. He was stunned after I explained their purpose."


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[ky]

lol My dads truck has those. This generation, we are learning less and less about how things used to be. My friends mom told her daughter (she was 8) that there was a time when Google didn't exist and there were no computers. Her daughters response was: So you used Yahoo? :lol:

 

[Turbinator]

Before the Google internet search website came out, I used www.altavista.com
I remember when Google did go live, and hesitating in using it because of a funny name.

 

[steph]

Drunk Swedish Moose Found In Tree

Now there's random for you.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384143.stm

I'm sure the elks are up to something...

@ky: I remember once my history teacher asked a colleague about how the spartans found out that the greeks needed help at the battle of Marathon, and she just went "Uhm, phone?":lol:

 

[n0mad23]

Does anyone here ever still say "you sound like a broken record"?

How many now have absolutely no clue as to what this idiom means? If you were born after 1982, you came into the world after commercial Compact Discs.

 

[ky]

I know what it means. It means that a person keeps talking on and on and on with no end, like a broken record.

---------- Post added at 07:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:22 PM ----------

I was born in 97' and thanks to my Language arts teachers, I know what it means.

 

[garyw]

Does anyone here ever still say "you sound like a broken record"?

There is a customer services technique called 'broken record' where you say the exact same thing to the customer. If you know the customer services techniques it makes complaining a lot more fun.

How many now have absolutely no clue as to what this idiom means? If you were born after 1982, you came into the world after commercial Compact Discs.

Compact Discs? Hell, do you know what a minidisc was? What about cassette tape? what about an L.P. / 45?

 

[Linguofreak]

Found this online:

"My friend's 12 year old son asked me what these things were in my truck. He was stunned after I explained their purpose."

Two of the three cars in our family have crank-down windows.

 

[Artlav]

there was a time when Google didn't exist and there were no computers.

Seen in the wild:
"Fifty years ago if you typed Madonna into the search box..."

 

[n0mad23]

Compact Discs? Hell, do you know what a minidisc was? What about cassette tape? what about an L.P. / 45?

You forgot the 8-track.


(I have both L.P.s and E.P.s, including some 7", and several 10 inches. I still have some cassettes, but my last deck broke about a year ago.)

 

[Pablo49]

Does anyone here ever still say "you sound like a broken record"?

How many now have absolutely no clue as to what this idiom means? If you were born after 1982, you came into the world after commercial Compact Discs.

"The vinyl record regained popularity by 2008, with nearly 2.9 million units shipped that year, the most in any year since 1998. They are especially used by DJs and audiophiles for many types of music. As of 2011, vinyl records continue to be used for distribution of independent and alternative music artists"

I personally have a good sized collection of vinyl records. A few I've paid over $100 for. ( One is autographed. ) I love people's reactions when I say I listen to records. It's sad some people don't know the joy of a good record.