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indiespy:
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--- Quote from: indiespy on 04 Nov 2013, 21:06 ---Today I learned that my fiances family and my own have "known" each other for the last 500 years. We lived in the same areas in Europe, traveled to America at the same time on the same ship, served side by side in multiple wars and even died together. Yet we are the first in our family's long history to get married.
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This is beyond cool. How did you figure it out?
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I did research in genealogy for both sides. Then went through different resources for side info.
Barmymoo:
I got a small CD from some clothing store or other, I was part of their girls' club or something. I can't actually remember except that the CD was really small.
UniqueNewYork:
--- Quote from: J on 04 Nov 2013, 21:34 ---you can also get optical discs in different shapes
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I can think of no possible reason for the one that reads "USB Stick" to do so. I mean, it's not like thumbdrives need drivers or anything, right? Isn't that the whole point of em?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: UniqueNewYork on 05 Nov 2013, 11:59 ---I can think of no possible reason for the one that reads "USB Stick" to do so. I mean, it's not like thumbdrives need drivers or anything, right? Isn't that the whole point of em?
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Windows 98 had no built-in USB support, so until recently some USB sticks were still sold with a driver floppy or CD.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: J on 04 Nov 2013, 21:34 ---you can also get optical discs in different shapes
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Notice that they are (mostly) symmetric (the parthenon thingy is stretching it a bit) and the cutout parts are fairly large...
Penn State's mascot is the Nittany Lion, a breed of mountain lion native to the area (Mount Nitanny is visible from the stadium). One of the logos they use is the lion's pawprint, which has 5 toes (the only remaining specimen, which died in 1903 and was stuffed had 6 toes on the front paws, not an unusual mutation in cats, leaving a 5-toed footprint)
Imagine if you will, back in the late 90's, when the admissions department put admissions info (a video tour, application forms, etc) on CD-ROMs and had them shaped like the lion's paw. It was a good bit rounder than the above image, but the small notches cut out between the toes left it a bit asymmetric, and because they were small, the eddy currents cause it to howl like a siren when the disc spun up...
Our branch campus alone got 3000 of the discs. System wide? Probably 100,000 or more. Every one of them completely useless, unless the users and their neighbors were all stone deaf.
Learning had occurred!
Of course, they could have just asked someone...
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