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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

evobatman posted:

I recently watched through Person of Interest for the first time, and also took a trip to New York this summer.

There weren't many payphones to be seen.

On the good side of things, you never saw a Jim Caveziel either!

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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Grassy Knowles posted:

that's a p gross post to follow a very reasonable request. it would be a gross post without that context too.

it’s black humor about the thread title/subject. Out of context sure it might be gross, but here it’s just bringing it back on topic.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
Collect your nerf darts.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

goblin week posted:

To get that out of the way: this also concerns turtles, alligator, capybaras, and puffins, which are all water-dwelling animals and thus edible on friday

I’m going to drown a cow, call it “water beef” and sell it as a fish.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Big Mac posted:

There were multiple people I was in school with who managed to break their RAZR in two, so they couldn't text and had to take all their calls on speaker.

The original sidetalking.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Cojawfee posted:

I don't know about pornography. The only person I knew with a PSP was my high school's local cookie monster pajama pants girl who would watch the spiderman movie on her PSP.

Peter Parker was spraying all around the place in the “special features.” Sorry you didn’t know.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

GoutPatrol posted:

I just saw a huge billboard today with Snoop Dogg advertising Sketchers with a Bored Ape on it.

so no.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Powered Descent posted:

The tape drives on early home computers used ordinary audio cassette tapes to store programs and data. If you listened to one of those data tapes in a regular player, you'd hear a lot of buzzing and screeching that sounded a lot like dial-up modem noises. But that could more usefully go in the other direction -- the sound of a program could be distributed on a vinyl record, or played on the radio, or via any other audio medium, and all you had to do was record it to a cassette tape and (assuming the sound quality had been good enough) it could be read by your computer.

If you wanted to send a copy of a tape to a friend, you could even play it over the phone for them to record on their end... and so the similarity to modem noises suddenly makes perfect sense.

And these days, a popular and easy way to load games into these kinds of old computers is to plug audio out from a phone or mp3 player into the tape input on these computers and play the game as a mp3 file.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
"Dorset's Devastating Fenella" never has a sexier description been given. Dorset? The sex capital of the world, everyone knows that. Devastating? The most arousing of adjectives. Fenella? A name that's a pleasure to say and tempts you with so much more.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Nocheez posted:

Rightfully so. All catchphrases get worn out and annoying in a very short amount of time.

gently caress you, my catchphrase is new, cool, and has the rizz.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

VIA in Canada still has cars like this in service on their long-distance trains and they’re absolutely gorgeous to sit and watch the world go by in.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Explosionface posted:

I can't shuffle anymore since I have too many concept albums where the tracks need to flow into each other. It's really jarring to have them next to anything else other than the appropriate lead-ins/outs

In iTunes/I'm guessing Apple Music, there's a field called "grouping." Tracks with the same grouping are always played together in shuffle, so you can keep intros/outros together with the other parts as necessary. Might be worth looking into if your music player supports similar functionality.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

George RR Fartin posted:

This is entertaining and all, but the vast majority of complaints about how this was built could be attributed to it being stored in a hot location for years, warping the plastic. He notes the rubber degradation is to be expected, but doesn't seem to apply the same logic elsewhere. It certainly looks like it wasn't built with an eye for perfection or anything, but I'd bet this wasn't as innately awful as is being claimed when you opened a new one in 1986 or whenever.

The channel is all about restoring and working with old Soviet-era tech though. They give it kudos when it does work, and knock it when it doesn't, and the Soviet Union certainly had its fair share of Bad Products.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
That staple is starting to rust and ruin the paper. You should remove it before it eats through the entirety of the paper.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
What's "the Kodak story"?

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Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

3D Megadoodoo posted:

What's wrong with single-use appliances? Do you make coffee in a cauldron? Do you grind pepper with karate chops? Do you spread butter with a table knife?

There's nothing wrong with them. The kitchen is the place where all the magical appliances informercials and advertising in general has been trying to sell you things that will make your life easier/faster/better actually happens. There are tons of single-use appliances for all kinds of kitchen tasks, and they generally do what they say they will do. The problem is balancing the ones you actually will use regularly or semi-regularly (and therefore justify their space and expense) while learning to ignore the ones you don't use that much and don't need.

The automated pineapple corer/skinner someone posted in here or the tech relics thread is a great example - it's a giant counter mounted monstrosity, bigger than a fancy coffee maker. Most people don't cut up pineapples enough to make giving up that much space worth it. But if you are someone who regularly chops up pineapples, that's an incredible improvement in your quality of life in the kitchen.

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