Topic: What I learned today! (Read 194901 times)

sei · « **Reply #1960 on:** October 25, 2011, 06:33:52 PM »

Quote from: Silversong on October 13, 2011, 03:44:00 PM

I do whatever cute things tell me to. :(

Quote from: Brentai on October 13, 2011, 04:45:19 PM

I think I see an exploit.

R^2 · « **Reply #1961 on:** October 29, 2011, 08:48:30 PM »

It may be for the best that my Civ 4 strategy guide got past the first-draft stage before I got laid off and the company folded. I'm really awful.

Guild · « **Reply #1962 on:** October 29, 2011, 10:30:30 PM »

A superconductor can be repositioned while hovering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyOtIsnG71U&feature=player_embedded#!

Lottel · « **Reply #1963 on:** October 29, 2011, 10:34:06 PM »

Not hovering. Locked.

Guild · « **Reply #1964 on:** October 29, 2011, 10:49:25 PM »

i'll lock you

alt: mama said lock you out

R^2 · « **Reply #1965 on:** October 30, 2011, 12:43:51 AM »

That's clearly a hover, but I can imagine lots of different ways it could fall down.

In fact

There must be fifty ways to leave a hover.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1966 on:** October 30, 2011, 06:57:59 AM »

That just goes too well with your avatar. Which is the idea, I guess.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #1967 on:** November 02, 2011, 09:51:28 PM »

"No one is entirely sure when magical penis loss first came to Africa."

Best thing I've read all week.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1968 on:** November 05, 2011, 04:30:59 PM »

That when Bill Cosby earned his Doctorate in Education, his thesis was on Fat Albert

Thad · « **Reply #1969 on:** November 05, 2011, 05:23:36 PM »

Yep. And while it was never deployed in the classroom in the way he suggested, it was a tremendously important show for educating children and promoting racial understanding and harmony.

For that matter, The Cosby Show educated adults in a similar fashion.

(Tangentially related: the most powerful political statement Peanuts ever made was to casually add Franklin, put him in school with Patty and Marcy, and have him be just like everybody else, with nobody in the strip ever commenting on his race.)

Thad · « **Reply #1970 on:** November 08, 2011, 04:42:31 PM »

NTFS -- at least, the version in Win7 -- lets you mount a hard drive as a subdirectory on another hard drive!

Boy, this is going to make it a LOT easier to move my TV shows over to my new hard drive.

So thanks, Microsoft, for...having a feature that Unix-likes have had for literally decades.

Now do you think you could maybe do something about your fucking shortcuts?

Büge · « **Reply #1971 on:** November 08, 2011, 08:53:56 PM »

Zuko was Rufio!

Mongrel · « **Reply #1972 on:** November 09, 2011, 08:32:06 AM »

Holy shit!

R^2 · « **Reply #1973 on:** November 09, 2011, 12:59:50 PM »

Those are awfully well-rooted. No wonder the Vic Viper has so much trouble destroying them.

Classic · « **Reply #1974 on:** November 09, 2011, 01:06:45 PM »

I shouldn't be surprised. The sphinx was submerged to its throat in sand before it became a curiosity to Europeans.

But...
God damn. I am surprised.

Büge · « **Reply #1975 on:** November 09, 2011, 01:35:13 PM »

So that's how they kept them standing!

Pacobird · « **Reply #1976 on:** November 09, 2011, 02:40:54 PM »

How active are Easter Island's volcanoes, assuming it has any?

Not that moai being sturdy enough to survive multiple volcanic eruptions would be less impressive than this photo.

patito · « **Reply #1977 on:** November 09, 2011, 03:01:43 PM »

Apparently it has a single nonactive volcano, and they built the statues out of volcanic rock.

Friday · « **Reply #1978 on:** November 09, 2011, 03:06:18 PM »

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Zuko was Rufio!

Yeah, I spent the entirety of Avatar going "man why do I know that voice" and then after I finished I remembered to look it up and literally spit chips and salsa all over myself

Niku · « **Reply #1979 on:** November 09, 2011, 03:21:47 PM »

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