This fried rice I just reheated is leftover leftover rice.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:19 am
by Dovira
When I was younger I used to think the nose-smiley :-) looked corny.
Nowadays I feel that one is the only sincere one, and the nose-less :) often strikes me as cloying and passive-aggressive.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:19 am
by jfv
kokorodoko wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:19 am
When I was younger I used to think the nose-smiley : - ) looked corny.
Nowadays I feel that one is the only sincere one, and the nose-less : ) often strikes me as cloying and passive-aggressive.
I use the one with the nose 100% of the time because faces have noses.
Have even thought about using a carat for the nose for emphasis but have never done it in practice.
:^)
Looks too much like I’m trying to draw attention.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:01 pm
by Anthony Flack
There's also Raymond Briggs Snowman variant
:o)
Have to disable smilies to use it on this forum.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:46 pm
by Anthony Flack
I looked up Hedy Lamarr's patent once, and it's honestly a less useful invention than Marlon Brando's patented electric conga drum tuning machine.
The popular myth is that she invented frequency hopping used in wifi, but the idea had already been around for decades by then. Hedy Lamarr patented a mechanical implementation using piano rolls that was never built, and probably wouldn't have worked very well due to issues with syncing two piano rolls together. The US government meanwhile already had a working electronic encryption system that the public didn't know about yet.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:41 pm
by enframed
Big Audio Dynamite could not get away with a song like "Sony" today.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:58 am
by enframed
"Disruption" consolidates capital.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:47 am
by Geiginni
Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:46 pm
I looked up Hedy Lamarr's patent once, and it's honestly a less useful invention than Marlon Brando's patented electric conga drum tuning machine.
The popular myth is that she invented frequency hopping used in wifi, but the idea had already been around for decades by then. Hedy Lamarr patented a mechanical implementation using piano rolls that was never built, and probably wouldn't have worked very well due to issues with syncing two piano rolls together. The US government meanwhile already had a working electronic encryption system that the public didn't know about yet.
SIGSALY?
The one-time-pad key records were indeed a lot more sophisticated than a piano roll. Along with the challenge of synchronizing two records across the atlantic on unsynchronized 50 Hz and 60 Hz electrical grids. Yikes!
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:50 pm
by Anthony Flack
Yeah, the reason Hedy Lamarr's patent didn't go anywhere wasn't because of the patriarchy, it was because they already had SIGSALY. I'm kinda curious about whether Marlon Brando ever built any self-tuning conga drums though.
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The "if you're like me" moment - funny how a YouTuber can never segue into paid promotional content without it being immediately obvious.
Re: What are you thinking right this second?
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 4:23 am
by Dovira
Anthony Flack wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:50 pmThe "if you're like me" moment