Topic: That will learn you! (Read 27005 times)

MrBlu · « **Reply #100 on:** 24 Jan 2009, 17:36 »

Quote from: Ladybug on 24 Jan 2009, 15:15

I also learnt that meeting someone you've talked to online for like 4 or 5 years, who knows way too much about you and is way too similar to you when it comes to shyness and silentness, is exactly as awkward and anti-climax as suspected, but can be..okay?

I could have told you that one.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #101 on:** 24 Jan 2009, 22:43 »

After hearing him last night in Clone Wars, I found out that George Takei has a long history of voice acting for cartoons.

Josefbugman · « **Reply #102 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 05:35 »

After watching some batman episodes on youtube it suprised me to discover that Mark Hamill was voicing the joker.

squawk · « **Reply #103 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 14:48 »

today i learned that kareem abdul jabbar is totally mentoring andrew bynum and that he is behind the lakers as a whole and this is displeasing because i hate the lakers so much

Patrick · « **Reply #104 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 14:54 »

Last night I learned several things:

- The expatriate community of Albania really likes Radiohead (this is very useful for me to know)
- If you place yourself between your really loud amp and your guitar, you are much less likely to get ridiculous amounts of unpleasant microphonic feedback from the pickups, leaving you with the much more enjoyable (and controllable) body-resonance feedback (see: Hendrix)
- Do NOT let strangers on the stage to sing with you. They will be unattractive, drunk and very touchy-feely, have bad breath, and sing horribly
- Do NOT let strangers on the stage, period. Otherwise, your $1300 guitar WILL wind up getting knocked over
- Fenders are FUCKING INDESTRUCTIBLE. Oh my god if my Jaguar were a girl I'd marry her
- Screaming "YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAW" while a man plays Scottish country dancing music on the pipes? Totally fucking awesome
- Screaming "'GAINST WHO?!" during "Flower Of Scotland" is fun with lots of people doing it. It's even more fun when you're one of 5 people who knows to do it

If you follow these directions every day, you will win everything.

Christophe · « **Reply #105 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 16:55 »

Man, all I learned last night was that The Cave Singers are fucking AWESOME.

Also that before 8 PM, Pabst Blue Ribbon is like a dollar a can. It's two afterwards, which is why I am not relentlessly hungover right now, also because I drove to the show.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #106 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 17:50 »

Today I learnt that Infernal Affairs is the best cop film I've ever seen

KvP · « **Reply #107 on:** 25 Jan 2009, 18:38 »

Today I learned about the "super worm" that can spread through USB thumb drives. The IT guys I work with freaked out a bit when they first heard of it, but it only apparently attacks instances of Windows that are not fully patched. Which worries me, as my cracked version of Pro can't go beyond SP2.

pwhodges · « **Reply #108 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:37 »

My anti-virus software updates several times a day. If yours doesn't, why not?

These things are eminently avoidable.

Patrick · « **Reply #109 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:54 »

Hahaha you guys with your PCs are so funny sometimes

Jace · « **Reply #110 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 04:57 »

Pretty much everyone is posting from a PC. Its those idiots at Mac that did not learn that PC means Personal Computer. Oh, wait, haha, I learned today that a Mac isn't a personal computer, it's a lifestyle choice.

pwhodges · « **Reply #111 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:04 »

Malware writers go after the largest targets; if the Mac got more market share they'd be there. And I seem to notice my Mac getting security updates, too; and my OpenBSD firewall; and my Apache servers. (Heh, remember I run these things for a living...)

Patrick · « **Reply #112 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:14 »

Quote from: PantsFTW on 26 Jan 2009, 04:57

Its those idiots at Mac that did not learn that PC means Personal Computer.

Actually I am fairly certain that was born of the public needing a way to differentiate between the two, and each term is simple. Apple just capitalized on the idea in their marketing.

(also dude I'm totally running a 5-year-old HP Pavilion. Besides, it's just a computer, let's not blow this out of proportion)

Jace · « **Reply #113 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 05:30 »

I am running the same computer as you. Mine has flame decals on the sides though, so it runs just a bit faster.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #114 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 07:29 »

I'm putting stripes on mine.

Patrick · « **Reply #115 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 14:06 »

I am going to buy a Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster and put vinyl knife decals on it so that I'm sure the tone really cuts through the mix during solos.

MrBlu · « **Reply #116 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 18:27 »

Quote from: KvP on 25 Jan 2009, 18:38

Today I learned about the "super worm" that can spread through USB thumb drives. The IT guys I work with freaked out a bit when they first heard of it, but it only apparently attacks instances of Windows that are not fully patched. Which worries me, as my cracked version of Pro can't go beyond SP2.

I got that email last week, and it didn't bother me. GMER and the fact that I have Autoplay turned off.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #117 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 21:51 »

Last week I saw the phrase "dulce et decorum" on, I think, these fora. It recalled that I'd seen the phrase in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and that I'd always meant to look the phrase up. So I learned (last week) that the full phrase is:

Quote from: Horace

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,
sed dulcius pro patria vivere,
et dulcissimum pro patria bibere.

Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae.

Horace was a Roman poet of the first century BC. Roughly translated, the poetry (from his Odes) means:

Quote

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's homeland,
but sweeter to live for it,
and sweetest to drink for it.

Therefor let us drink to the health of our homeland.

He was a quotable dude. That was a popular toast in the 19th century and it's my toast now.

Nunc est bibendum!

supersheep · « **Reply #118 on:** 26 Jan 2009, 21:56 »

Today I learned that, on the 25th of November 1215, King John asked his justiciars to send him "forty of the fattest pigs, of the sort least good for eating" so that he could break into Rochester Castle.

Thank you, OKCupid!

Someone linked a picture of someone being a dickhead in some sort of message from that site, and I decided to try and find him, then I got distracted by other people, and I found that quote. Procrastination is awesome.

Harun · « **Reply #119 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 13:43 »

It takes 12 pounds of pressure to break your clavicle.

Christophe · « **Reply #120 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 13:59 »

Quote from: Harun on 29 Jan 2009, 13:43

It takes 12 pounds of pleasure to break your clavicle.

misread your post

Slick · « **Reply #121 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 17:10 »

Pounds are not units of pressure.

Patrick · « **Reply #122 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 17:34 »

Take a scale and press on it. You will still get a readout.

Slick · « **Reply #123 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 17:37 »

Pressure is force per unit area.

Spluff · « **Reply #124 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 17:39 »

I'm assuming he meant pound force*.

*hahahaha pound force

Patrick · « **Reply #125 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 17:42 »

So on an ordinary bathroom scale, if you get a readout of 8lbs, then that's roughly 8lbs per square foot. You can measure stuff out and do the math for your clavicle. Not very hard.

phooey · « **Reply #126 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 18:41 »

It's still not correct.

Harun · « **Reply #127 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 19:02 »

*punches everyone in the clavicle with 12 pounds force, or 53.3786594 Newtons if you want to get fancy*

jhocking · « **Reply #128 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 20:47 »

12 pounds of force concentrated into the area of your fist is very different from 12 pounds of force spread out over the entire space of your clavicle.

MrBlu · « **Reply #129 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 22:22 »

I learned that the QC regulars are nitpicky about their values and measurements.

Slick · « **Reply #130 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 23:11 »

I am not trying to be nitpicky but to correct a common abuse of terminology.
Patrick you are still wrong. I will expound when the sun's up and my blood's cleaner.

Patrick · « **Reply #131 on:** 29 Jan 2009, 23:41 »

Nitpicker is nitpicky.

Slick · « **Reply #132 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 08:57 »

Pound is a unit of mass.
Pound-force is the force due to gravity exerted on a pound.
Pounds-per-square-inch is actually pound-force-per-square-inch is a unit of pressure.

What I am saying is that the usage of terminology is wrong. If you said you were moving at a speed of fifty kilometers, I would probably get that you meant fifty kilometers an hour, not per second or per half hour or anything else that silly. However, pressure vs. force is something I've seen misunderstood a lot so I was actually hoping you would all go on wikipedia or read a physics tutorial in the hopes of proving me wrong and learn a bit about physics.

jhocking · « **Reply #133 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 09:27 »

Quote from: MrBlu on 29 Jan 2009, 22:22

I learned that the QC regulars are nitpicky about their values and measurements.

*shrug* If you think wanting to correct the facts is nitpicky then that's fine, it's not like everyone cares about the same things. I just figured if you're going to bother learning a piece of information you would want that information to be correct.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #134 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 09:52 »

I learnt a load of bollocks about pounds and forces and stuff.Time to break some clavicles

Jace · « **Reply #135 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 09:54 »

I could probably punch someone in the clavicle and break it. I could also probably break arms, it doesn't take that much pressure to break someone's arm. Its more about speed.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #136 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 12:16 »

I've learned that Google is kind of shit at paying contractors. It has been a week and a half and we could really use that check anytime now.

Iron_Fist · « **Reply #137 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 13:14 »

Quote from: jhocking on 23 Jan 2009, 10:57

Quote from: Emaline on 23 Jan 2009, 10:11
Bag pipes and accordians are seriously under apperciated instruments.

I totally want bagpipes at my funeral because their sound is stirring and majestic. Only nothing about me is Scottish so it would probably be pretty weird.

I hate to be a pedantic shit, but I'm pretty sure the Irish invented the bagpipes as most people know them.

Today I learned that my cat is a nutjob.

pwhodges · « **Reply #138 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 13:30 »

The bagpipe is first known from Hittite carvings of around 1000 BCE, and there are also signs of it in ancient Chinese civilisation. It appears to have reached Britain with the Romans (a Roman bronze figure at Richborough is evidence of this), and spread through England (13th and 14th century ecclesiastical carvings) before there is any sign of it in Scotland (early 15th century - James I of Scotland was a noted performer) or Ireland (14th century - there were "war pipes" in the Irish contingent at the battle of Crécy). The English word "bagpipe" was first used (to our knowledge) by Chaucer.

Just saying...

Iron_Fist · « **Reply #139 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 13:31 »

Cool, I guess I just learned that.

Patrick · « **Reply #140 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 14:05 »

Today, I learned more things about the plane my grandpa operated radar in during the American side of WWII's Pacific theater. For example, America's development of their own version of the German invention, the ejection seat, was largely done in P-61s because of the fact that they had three seats as compared to the original testbed aircraft, the Lockheed P-80, which had only one seat, making it ridiculously impractical to use as a test aircraft.

(true, kind of creepily coincidental story: the example pictured in the article is the sixteenth P-61A-1 ever made, and is also the one that came off of the production line exactly one spot before the one my grandpa worked in)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #141 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 18:08 »

Quote from: jhocking on 30 Jan 2009, 09:27

*shrug* If you think wanting to correct the facts is nitpicky then that's fine, it's not like everyone cares about the same things. I just figured if you're going to bother learning a piece of information you would want that information to be correct.

Joe you are now my favourite.

IronOxide · « **Reply #142 on:** 30 Jan 2009, 18:23 »

This week I have learned what company are most (and least) likely to freak out about having a nosebleed in class.

Sound Recording 105 freaks out the most, Gothic Literature freaks out the least.

I also learned that apparently you can have five nosebleeds in as many days, even if you aren't Attila the Hun

jhocking · « **Reply #143 on:** 31 Jan 2009, 09:02 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 30 Jan 2009, 18:08

Joe you are now my favourite.

"now"?

valley_parade · « **Reply #144 on:** 31 Jan 2009, 09:10 »

Today, I learned that my MacBook pretty much does whatever it wants, whenever it wants to.

Including making the trackpad not work, causing me to shell out $20 on a mouse, and then decide "eh, i'll work". You fuckbastard.

jhocking · « **Reply #145 on:** 31 Jan 2009, 09:14 »

Honestly, it did you a favor. Trackpads are hell ergonomically.

Patrick · « **Reply #146 on:** 31 Jan 2009, 10:30 »

Not to mention that they are SHIT for playing FPS.

valley_parade · « **Reply #147 on:** 31 Jan 2009, 10:39 »

Quote from: jhocking on 31 Jan 2009, 09:14

Honestly, it did you a favor. Trackpads are hell ergonomically.

I hadn't used a mouse in six months. It feels so comfortable, Joe!

(Patrick, what the hell are you going on about. Gaming on a Mac? Bahaha.)

Harun · « **Reply #148 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 21:11 »

Today from National Geographic I learnt that there is some evidence that turkeys are descendants of VELOCIRAPTORS. I guess there is a series on the NG tv channel about this, as well as whales and other majestic creatures.

"Uhh, yeah. I'll have a DLT on wheat, please. Yeah, that's a DINOSAUR lettuce and tomato. And some sweet tea."

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #149 on:** 06 Feb 2009, 21:24 »

Today I learned that there will be a live action Powers series on FX

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