Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194853 times)

Büge · « **Reply #1180 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:06:11 AM »

Quote from: Miss Cat Ears on May 12, 2010, 06:01:40 PM

I was thinking "well this is okay but pancakes kind of suck" then i saw their suggestion for pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin _____ is always the best kind of _____

Would you like a recipe for Pumpkin Pie Pancakes, then?

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1181 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:26:16 AM »

Please!!

Büge · « **Reply #1182 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:36:07 AM »

Tada.

TA · « **Reply #1183 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:07:56 PM »

Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.

Büge · « **Reply #1184 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:51:59 PM »

P... Pefntd?

That doesn't spell anything.

SCD · « **Reply #1185 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:08:20 PM »

Was watching Fox Detroit before the Daily Show just now, and I saw an ad for the local emergency services asking everybody to prefix people they would want notified in case of serious injury with the letters "ICE-"

I think this is a good idea. Apparently this isn't a new idea either.

Büge · « **Reply #1186 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:21:59 PM »

I learned that paleontologists have adopted this term.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1187 on:** May 14, 2010, 12:58:55 PM »

are you joking me

Mongrel · « **Reply #1188 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:01:30 PM »

If true, that is beyond awesome.

TA · « **Reply #1189 on:** May 14, 2010, 01:06:50 PM »

It is entirely true.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1190 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:24:42 PM »

Oh good god. In spite of the scientist penchant for odd naming conventions, I thought BUge just meant they used it colloquially, like a high-fives-around-the-lab kind of thing.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1191 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:26:53 PM »

That fiddleheads contain a not-really-lethal poison that is normally removed by thorough cooking.

I learned this after I ate a bunch of nearly-raw ones and decided to look up more about them (I was at the grocery store and was all "Hey, I've never tried this funny-lookin' vegetable before, let's give it a whirl!").

Thanks for warning me that these are the vegetable equivalent of the pufferfish, mr. grocery store!

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), I am not dead yet. Also, they were kinda tasty.

Brentai · « **Reply #1192 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:33:11 PM »

The worst immediate effect it has is food poisoning, apparently. And it's somewhat carcinogenic. So it's more the vegetable equivalent of uncooked hamburger.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1193 on:** May 15, 2010, 06:34:32 PM »

I was pretty amused that it's the gold standard for vegetable anti-oxidants, but is pretty carcinogenic on it's own.

VEGETABLE KINGDOM IRONY YOU.

Büge · « **Reply #1194 on:** May 15, 2010, 07:04:40 PM »

Rhubarb's pretty bad for you too. Oxalic acid.

Miss Cat Ears · « **Reply #1195 on:** May 15, 2010, 07:28:38 PM »

Pomegranate is pretty bad for me. Even though it has all those special anti cancers in it or whatever.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1196 on:** May 16, 2010, 05:10:57 AM »

Quote from: Büge on May 15, 2010, 07:04:40 PM

Rhubarb's pretty bad for you too. Oxalic acid.

Man, I need me some strawberry rhubarb pie.

Brentai · « **Reply #1197 on:** May 16, 2010, 09:48:51 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on April 05, 2010, 09:30:44 PM

You know, for the longest time I couldn't bring myself to care about the game engine I spent so much time building last year. To the point where I didn't even bother to back it up to anything but the external.

Now that the external seems to be fried, though...

What I learned this weekend: Data Necromancy.

The current working directory seems to be irrecoverable but the latest "submitted" (my version of SVN looks suspiciously like just a bunch of numbered directories) copy was pulled pretty much intact, which is probably more important. I also managed to pull my music library (thank God, because I can't find a place to

the Dawn of Mana OST anymore) and a decent amount of porn.

The hardware itself is pretty much salvageable as a decent 250gb IDE drive. I can't put it into my current PC for the same reason I can't seem to upgrade my video card anymore (Dell's frankensteinien component placement basically obstructs it) but once I've saved up enough to have the computer I'm building put together I might slot it in for... I don't know, something to put a quarter terabyte of hentai on or something. I'm not in a huge hurry to format the thing anyway, since I don't yet know if there's anything else I'm going to want to make WISE FWOM ITS GWAVE.

The upshot of all this is that I know see a pretty compelling reason to just go open-source with all this for people's consideration. Those of you who want to see proof that I actually do do stuff (that you just can't see) can wait for that to drop in a few days, after I've gone through and cleaned out its guts. Some of the fancier crap (non-iterative linked-list merge sort, hyper-optimized sprite/quad rotation, some probably uselessly overcomplicated collision detection) might be of some use if you really want to go hunting for mushrooms.

For my part I'm just gonna take my old work for reference and start a new project on something that's not fucking Visual Studio. I actually really like VC as an IDE, but the fact that I still don't know how the fuck to build a release executable on it has convinced me that I might be better off migrating to something more hobbyist-friendly.

This thread probably should have gone into Programmer's Wanking Corner but then nobody would have read it, including the programmers.

Lottel · « **Reply #1198 on:** May 16, 2010, 10:24:18 PM »

Quote from: Brentai

WOOOOORDS

What I learned today:
That although I am not a programmer, I am the only person who reads the Wanking Corner.

Lottel · « **Reply #1199 on:** May 19, 2010, 09:06:43 PM »

Oh hey. Talking to an old friend today who happens to be my ex's best friend. I learned two things. One of them being that everyone is looking down on my ex for pulling the stunts she did for the reasons she did. That's a little weird.
Second thing? They were going to confront me in a few months to see when I was going to propose. Apparently, they were wanting to plan a big surprise for her and were going to get me on the plan in August.

Weeeird day.

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