She also has a lasso, so she’s not the only one in her stories to get tied up.

it depends on how it’s stored, and a lot of the problems will come from the cork rather than the wine.

I don’t think anything you just said is correct.

I cannot find anything about a tape format called “LP-2000” that came out in 1970.

Phillips released the VCR format in 1972, and a successor Video 2000 in 1979. Most people on earth have not heard of these, because they weren’t nearly as successful as Sony’s Betamax format which lost the format war to…

VHS. Made by JVC, Japan Victor Corporation, at the time owned by Matsushita…and/or Panasonic? Not Phillips.

The first VHS deck was released by JVC under the Victor brand name in 1976, three years before Video 2000. If VHS is a successor to anything, it’s U-Matic.

There was actually a tape format called VCR. Made by Phillips, I believe it was the first video tape system that recorded a high quality signal in color available to consumers. It was test marketed in the PAL regions, proving to have reliability issues, and then JVC launched VHS later that year and Phillips gave up.

They did later reduce the Ti-84 Silver to 48K. Still…idiots.

The Ti-83 Plus Silver Edition and early models of the Ti-84 Plus Silver Edition had 128K of RAM, upgraded from the typical 28 or 48 that the 83 Plus or 84 Plus had. But the additional RAM was impossible to use as the OS had not been altered to address it.

The Leatherman Skeletool is currently available in several varieties, including the long-running standard model with an unfinished stainless steel body, a chunk of aluminum in the handle, and a 420HC semi-serrated blade, and the Skeletool CX variant with…whatever the black coating is made of, a carbon fiber chunk in the handle, and a 154CM plain blade.

When the model was first introduced, the base model had a plain blade, and the CX had a semi-serrated blade. This was swapped, as they realized first time knife buyers were more likely to see the semi-serration as a value-add, while more serious knife guys would prefer a plain blade. So you might find a very old Skeletool with a plain 420HC blade, or an old CX with a semi-serrated 154CM blade.

It’s okay, he doesn’t have a flashlight.

In my house, the toilet seat and lid are down when not in use. Because I have a cat and she’s the kind of idiot that will jump into the toilet and then track toilet water into my bed.

Fail.

It’s a Borzoi. Narrow dog with a white coat and a hose nose.

There was an early episode of House where a clinic segment had a white chick in hemp clothing bring her baby in for a runny nose, proudly proclaimed that they “weren’t vaccinating.” House goes on about baby coffins. I did not see that issue slop so hard to the right.

My family got a brand new Pentium 3 computer that came with Windows ME. Part of the install/setup/onboarding process of this OS was connecting to the internet via its dialup modem. My father’s work was our ISP, it was a local number. We left the area code field blank, put in the 7 digit phone number, and the software wouldn’t accept that. The software required the area code field to be filled in. We filled it in, and it pumped the modem noises through to the speakers, where we heard “doo Daa DEEE It is not necessary to dial the area code for a local call. Please hang up and dial the phone number without the area code.”

ENGINEERING!

In the United States, absolutely none of them do.

The US did not create new area codes for cell phones. I kinda wonder if it would have ever worked. There are only like 800 of them available to the whole nation. 000-199 are not usable; neither an area code or an exchange can start with a leading 0 or 1. And certain round numbers and easy to remember area codes like 200, 211, 300, 311 etc. are reserved. 411 for example is the infromation service, 911 is the emergency number. Fun fact: cell phones are required to be able to dial 911 even if they don’t have a plan or number associated to them. If you dial 911 from a disconnected cell phone, the system will randomly assign that phone a number with a 911 area code.

Even though you can carry a phone elsewhere with you, they are still “area codes.” If you get a new cell phone, it will be assigned an area code for the area you purchased it in. People have moved around and kept their familiar numbers, which is what this XKCD comic is referring to.

The next three digits are the “exchange,” which once upon a time was also routable. Everyone in the same town or neighborhood might have the same exchange, so at one point you really only had to remember 4 digits for a particular phone number, because you knew what exchange and area they were in. Especially with cell phones it’s pretty much 10 random digits.

I’ve banged on about this at length before. I prefer woodworking in inches because I have to divide by 3 and 4 a lot more often than divide by 5. It turns out that the fractional inch system evolved alongside woodworking for a very long time and it solves a lot of the problems woodworkers actually face…as long as you’re not a European scraping in the dirt for something to feel superior about.

The first time I ever took a non-pressurized aircraft to 10,000 feet was an interesting experience. I noticed myself breathing…not heavier, that feels like the wrong word, because I had the opposite problem to “heavy.” I needed to breathe noticeably deeper and faster just sitting still at the controls of the plane doing maybe slightly more work than typing this sentence. Somebody from a lower area going up to Denver (about half the altitude I flew to that day) to play a sport has an elevated chance of Not A Good Day.

“High. You put the stove on high.”

There’s nothing funny about this. And yet I’m laughing at it a lot. Like, there isn’t a constructed joke here. The headless but not faceless cat shaped object is ridiculous. But it was already ridiculous in the original post. I need to analyze this with a team of scientists.

one threads in clockwise, the other threads in counterclockwise.