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Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.

Pretty sure we’re all crying these days

There’s a dated idea in Japan that a woman over 25 is past her prime age for getting married, which was called “Christmas cake” because it’s like the leftovers from the 25th (they “traditionally” eat cake for xmas in Japan).

None of his bits have annoyed me but I guess I can see them coming off like that at times. This one at least had a direct connection to the gambling story he was talking about (and more recently dildos have been in the news from protestors chucking them at ICE) so it didn’t feel all that random.

Plus the giant one that stuck to his desk and wobbled was just perfect.

Geo Tracker. I had the unfortunate luck to have my driving school lessons in one of those. It’s really light so when trucks passed me on the highway I could feel the car get pushed a little bit from air displacement, which was not a calming experience for a new teen driver.

Also wouldn’t recommend for the back windows being made of plastic

I like how it has text saying “don’t sleep in your contacts” as if that’s the real issue, rather than this lady being an idiot. Like she slept in them and woke up the next day thinking “Oh well, guess it just dissolved in my eyeball, time to put more contacts in!”

Kinda = kind of, no?

she played batwoman

bonus episode

How’d I manage to miss this after all these years?

Still haven’t gotten around to the manga. But I think I might be the only person who actually liked the live action series

I just hope there’s as much dancing as Link did in the 90s

https://youtu.be/vZdSb4F72Iw

(to get that url I had to click on “copy link”)

El Yucateco “El Caribe”? I can’t find it very often in local stores

Yeah I ordered it I think last year. First time I had it and it was really good. You can get a mix and match box of 6 on their website and it’s a little more than buying in stores (I think) but you can get flavors I’ve never seen on shelves anywhere.

In this case he actually did, although it was it a publicity stunt to promote his no tax on tips shit, which (of course) isn’t nearly as good in practice as the name sounds.

But nice to know the media is still using photos that make him look doofy as fuck

I really like the original flavor cholula but any of their other ones have this artificial plasticky taste I can’t quite identify.

My favorite cheap one that can go on everything is el yucateco. Some of those even bring some heat without raising the price.

I don’t know what you know. Your comment above about US English not distinguishing between turtle and tortoise wasn’t accurate, so I’m also not sure what you were trying to say with the explanation about the Japanese separation.

In common speech Japanese conflates way more animals than English does, including turtles/tortoises. I just had to look up rikugame because I’d only ever heard kame before. If you’re a scientist or at a turtle conference I’m sure the distinction gets used, but otherwise it goes along the lines of pigeon/dove, alligator/crocodile, rat/mouse, etc.

It’s not actually that common of a phenomenon

I actually thought this was specifically referring to recent data showing that grindr has a huge uptick in activity whenever RNC conventions come to an area.

Most water back in the day was at ground level, so if we could only rely on gravity we’d have had a hell of a time bending down to slurp it up.

There’s a great French novel about the life of an ant warrior who suspects a rival colony has developed a secret weapon. The original French title is The Ants but whoever brought it to the English market thought that wasn’t dramatic enough and so retitled it Empire of the Ants