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[Frumple]

... today I learned that there are 1,225 distinct coins in super mario bros. That. That seems so very cruel.

[Bouchart]

I take it that doesn't count the coin blocks that have variable amounts in them.

[Putnam]

a bug just played a note on the guitar sitting next to me

EDIT: LIBREOFFICE IMPRESS IS AWFUL OH MY GOD

it keeps like... messing itself up??? over something??? and half of stuff suddenly shifts over in a direction a bunch and then it crashes

sometimes it doesn't recognize that an object has width, so you have to manually find the width is at and adjust from there; unfortunately, this tends to multiply the height by approximately (height/width), which naturally is probably something like 0.6/0 wait oh god no, then you've got an 80,000 inch tall formula on your hands

[Eric Blank]

Musical shield bug eh? And here I thought they could only play the song of their people on the side of the goddamn house by crashing into it repeatedly

[Putnam]

Musical shield bug eh?

excuse me how the fuck did you know that

i didn't say it was a shield bug

i didn't even know what that was until just now

and i looked it up and yeah that's what it is

[Eric Blank]

Because i know you live over in Spokane area, I lived there too, I'm still practically next door. Those little bastards are about as omnipresent as God is supposed to be this time of year. And they're really fucking annoying and get into everything. Like guitars.

How the fuck could you live in the northwest US and NOT know everythig you didnt want to about the damn shield bugs, anyway? :v

[Putnam]

we... actually don't get those in Clarkston, believe it or not. Maybe it's the lack of trees.

I'm in Walla Walla now. There's a lot of trees here.

[Eric Blank]

That'd explain it I guess. They do need sufficiently juicy plants to murder, after all.

[Putnam]

also i live in the house of someone who's a bit of trash neglect away from being a hoarder so

i found a pack of gum from 1993 a few days ago

[Eric Blank]

No, no, having your house immaculately clean won't dissuade the bastards. They don't care either way. It would make it more difficult to notice them, though.

[itisnotlogical]

So on most trackpads, a tap with one finger is a left click and tapping with two fingers is a right click, right? I just discovered that my computer recognizes three-fnger taps (opens the Search menu) and four-finger taps (opens the Action Center).

[Yoink]

The movie Let's kill Wards wife.

Starts out as a somewhat weird dark comedy type of deal, nothing too special, only maybe how hard it's trying to portray the titular wife as an absolutely hateable piece of shit. And then the murder thing happens and stuff gets stupidly wierd from there, like, uncomfortable levels of wierd (and I'm very used to some wierd stuff), to the point of actually wondering what the fuck were they thinking when they made this.

Well great, now I have to watch it. How much is/are the producer/producers paying you?!



Also I very much enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird, although it's been a while since I read it and I don't remember it very well.
I don't think I was excited by the political undertones so much as the interactions between the main characters and how external events affected them.
I'll have to re-read it sometime.

[Arx]

WiFi messes with weather radar/

The article is paywalled, but the first three paragraphs really say all you need to know. I suppose it was inevitable.

[wierd]

This doesnt make much sense... the unlicensed spectrum used by wifi (2.4Ghz) attenuates rapidly in open air due to interaction with water molecules. That is WHY it is used in microwave ovens--Water absorbs the shit out of it, and gets hot!!

Sadly, being paywalled, I dont know if they are calling whitespace radios "wifi" here, or if they are talking the 5ghz band, or what.

Reporters are rather uneducated/stupid these days when it comes to science and technology; they almost always get it wrong somehow.

Now I am gonna see if I can dig up a different source on this.

[Arx]

From the cited paper: "Wireless technology, such as local area telecommunication networks and surveillance cameras, causes severe interference for weather radars, because they use the same operational radio frequencies."

Emphasis mine.

It's entirely possible that the very impressive graphic they have there is from one of the other sources though.