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Random question of the moment: Consider an extended ASCII character table. http://www.maxi-pedia.com/web_files/images/code_ASCII_OEM.png Row E consists of a somewhat random assortment of greek letters. Right after mu and tau, but before uppercase (?) theta and uppercase omega, we see what looks like...

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Man Thinking About Just Packing Up And Making Exact Same Mistakes Someplace Far Away

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Did you catch that the end credits music was literally called "The Master of the Mystic End Credits" ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4uoNAFfvKg I was reminded of Monty on the Run for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEE8203hmBQ Am I the only one who didn't quite get how the ...

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I caught the special showing of the newly-restored animated Power of the Daleks at the cinema just now. Man, Classic Who is just weird. I was definitely nodding off for a minute during the middle. (What the bork is up with Patrick Troughton's flute?!)

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Am I the only one who didn't quite get how the "mirror universe" was supposed to work? Bit slipshod, that. (It made me think of the "Gloom" in Night Watch/Day Watch, which did it rather better – or maybe I'm only thinking that because of the books .) Also, "Heaven Sent"...

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1) Roll-eyes . Do you think that people outside your country recognise immediately the place-names mentioned in TV/films etc. your country produces? Well, anything expected to be consumed outside of the country would probably have a minimal reliance on local geography. Can you name TV/films about B...

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Zohar wrote:So there's this thing - a bundle of 151 games for $20 for charity.

I was so hoping for Hadean Lands, but alas, not today.

It is cheaper than it's ever been at the moment – but no, now is the time to buy Undertale and Life is Strange.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/376240/

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Jorpho wrote:What, no monkey tacos?

peteispo wrote:What, no Bobcats?

Oh, I forgot the other likely possibility:

https://xkcd.com/1123/

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/moving_boxes.png Alt-text: Later, when I remember that I'm calling movers, I frantically scribble over the labels and write 'NORMAL HOUSE STUFF' on all of them, which actually makes things worse. What, no monkey tacos? Also, I'm a little surprised there's no thread for ...

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Reminiscent of https://xkcd.com/675/ .

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The further you go to the top-left, the more reactive the elements are. Clarification: metals in the lower left are more reactive than those in the upper left. Lithium in water will fizz around enthusiastically; sodium will ignite, and it gets more exciting from potassium on down. (Francium is too ...

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I'm reminded of reading the original War of the Worlds not so long ago. The story does not hold up very well at all, not in the least because of the names of all these obscure places in the English countryside (i.e. which are slowly being overrun by the invading alien hordes) are quite meaningless t...

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What, no Wainscotting?

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Zohar wrote:Specific subreddits? Find a youtuber you like and binge on their old videos?

Youtube-watching is much too conspicuous at work, even with headphones. Or so I'd imagine.

I have been dipping my toes a little more into the Reddit-waters lately, though. Perhaps that is not such a bad idea.

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I think I'm going to have to give up on 9gag and boingboing for a while. All this doom and gloom is really wearing me down.

Is there a good place to go that explicitly strives to avoid politics?

Maybe I'll just have to forget about the Internet for a while and spend my day actually, y'know, working.

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There's a good joke in here somewhere, but the idea of a building with a giant sign that says "MOTTO:" just doesn't click with me at all. I mean, The Simpsons does this sort of thing all the time without having to swing the proverbial hammer like that. It doesn't even have any of the chara...

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By many accounts, the Mt. Everest experience of today is positively dreary – just shuffling along in an overcrowded lineup of rich people. Perhaps that will be the ultimate fate of the true "interplanetary experience"? (I bet there's a good short story plot in there somehow.)

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I wonder if this is another one of those cases where Randall uploaded the wrong, incomplete version of the comic.

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The first time I worked in an environment with a communal coffee maker, someone informed me that the correct way to prepare a fresh pot was to just fill up the carafe and pour it back in the top. And hey, the stuff that comes out in the end is still brown, so how was I supposed to know you're also s...

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Not Companions of Xanth?

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I see Phantasm is back in the news, with both a Remastered version and a fourth Kickstarted sequel. I guess it's not necessarily a terrible movie – it has a distinctive vision, which is a whole lot more than a lot of other terrible movies can say. But it was quite mindblowing when I realized the str...

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Way, way, back in the day, Opera used to be extremely convenient, as there was a single button which would toggle between "load images", "hide all images", and "load only cached images" – so you could, say, load up whatever images you need for a particular board layout ...

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Bundle Stars is selling this 5-pack of Sentinels of the Multiverse presently.
https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/s ... rse-5-pack

Three bucks is about as much as I'd like to pay for it, but I would like to pay for it. Would anyone else be interested in a copy for $3?

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Cellulose is trivial with regard to human nutrition because cellulose does not do anything in humans. A lack of dietary fiber can be problematic. We learned about that in grade 8 biology. Check out the basic dimensions section of the Wolfran Alpha page on Kinetic Energy Notice that substituting the...

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Ahh, I remember when I started a thread expressing my bafflement at FaiD. Hammer locked it after two pages.

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But mnemonics are still cool, right?

Lo d hi and hi d lo, E-I-E-I-O...

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I agree with Mr. LaserGuy. Specialization is not going to make much of a difference at this particular juncture. Also, I'm not sure what sort of research you've been doing, but everything I've ever heard (and let's not forget https://xkcd.com/1052/ ) is that someone with a Physics degree is extremel...

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jewish_scientist wrote:Dimensional Analysis
1) Replace every unit with a variable of the same power e.g. mm^2 becomes x^2
2) Do algebra
3) When in simplest form, do the first step backwards
This always works.

E_K = ½mv².

So no. It doesn't.

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I keep hoping that maybe I'll save the life of a data-recovery business owner some day. Or perhaps marry the attractive daughter of such a business owner. I thought I'd report that a chance to give SpinRite a chance recently presented itself, so I fired up a spare laptop and gave it a try. It seems ...

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I was expecting the proposed phenomenon to be attributed not to the remarkable longevity of honey, but rather to the heretofore undocumented preservation capabilities of pyramid-shaped structures. I'm sure someone somewhere is already ranting about that.

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Hat dug I'm glad I stuck with this. That last arc is frakkin' metal . I could hardly put it down. It's hard to believe a single person wrote this whole thing. I feel a little sad that I could probably never achieve something of this quality, and even if I did, it would probably at best languish in r...

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Apparently Pokemon Global Link is getting shut off in October, which means I'll probably have to finish Pokemon Y if I want to spend all my Pokemiles.

At least Wonder Trade will still work.

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Door-holding: I hate it. I wish no one ever held a door for me, and I wish I never had to hold a door for someone else; my dislike for this transcends all consideration of age and gender. While at times it goes smoothly, too often this intricate pas-de-deux between two strangers requires too much co...

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I can't seem to find any good linkage about these "headlight bugs", which I guess explains why Randall didn't include any.

EDIT: Ohh, headlight beetle.
https://naturecloseups.com/posts/headlight-beetle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophorus_nyctophanus

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The last (several) times something like this happened, Randall uploaded the wrong comic and the problem was remedied later in the day.

But it's well past noon EST now. This bodes poorly.

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Well, I'm coming up on the end of Arc 1 at the moment. Can't say I'm enjoying this nearly as much as HPMOR, and if you folks hadn't be going on about it for pages and pages, I might have given up on it by now. But I've come too far now. (It doesn't help that the epub formatting is kind of wonky.) So...

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So had anyone here actually heard of ANSEL before reading this comic? (I might not even have gotten to the wikipedia page if not for explainxkcd; the search results are swamped by some nvidia widget.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSEL

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elasto wrote:How did we not come up with this variant ??

It is a rich vein for inquiry. Did someone link to http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/less ... variations or http://existentialcomics.com/comic/106 already?

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This ain't bad, but we need the autotune version that follows the tune of the original. I have to agree with you there. I never much cared for the notion of sucking on a chili dog . That is not something you do with a chili dog. And for the longest time I thought "hand between her knees" ...

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The digital edit of Star Wars might be asking a bit much, but it seems all too likely that by this comic Randall shall will this Jack and Diane remix into existence.

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