Posts by jake

Boulder Colorado has had a beach for years.

_{If all the ice in the world melted, sea level would not rise 5,328 feet. Boulder's safe.}

Re: Who dun it?

Just in case anyone doesn't know the origin of the name ...

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html

They also use it for free training of folks who have never been involved in a real elevator rescue, which also makes them happy.

Probably tastes just like the rock I got at the Jurassic Coast back in the 1970s. This ammonite tastes like dried out ancient mudstone.

"Expect at some time in the future to start receiving advertising and/or calls from a 'friend'..."

I've been getting those for years ... Scam telephone calls claiming to be a friend or relative using the same generic phrasing that so-called "fortune tellers" use. And yes, these days they are usually bots.

Re: Abbatar

I'm fairly sure I did.

Re: It's not imortality.

I would imagine that "all of them" would be one acceptable answer.

Re: Abbatar

The original was boring, derivative, and repetitive enough ... who on earth would want to try to recreate it? Gluttons for punishment?

Dr. Sbaitso.was pretty much the same thing as ELIZA, with a text to speech routine grafted on.

These modern toys are the same thing, just with faster processors and more memory.

Re: Fruity sexual discrimination

I rather suspect the Banana-clones are quite comfortable with their reproduction technique and hardly find it "unfortunate", regardless of who is describing it ... and in fact, if they thought about it at all, they might find yours rather disturbing.

Re: It's already clothed

Just the fruit, warmed gently in a flaming caramel rum[0] sauce with a hint of cinnamon, finished with a small pinch of either Jacobson or Maldon finishing salt. Serve topping real vanilla ice cream.

[0] Meyer's Dark recommended, but trust your own taste buds.

Re: It's already clothed

I read that joke in Boys Life magazine back in 1966ish.

(I briefly subscribed, just for Bobby Fischer's "Checkmate" column.)

Re: You're holding it wrong!

If I have an actual destination, of course I memorize my route before I get on the bike. Don't you?

If I have no particular place to go, the plan is to get lost anyway. I've found some of my favorite places in the world when "lost" on a bike :-)

Re: What did you expect?

Yes, but they call them "knickerbockers".

Re: You're holding it wrong!

I grokked your comment, I ride both four footed & 2 wheeled near daily. Mine was more of a suggestion for folks who may have never thought about simpler, cheaper options for protection from inclement weather and other sources of wet.

Re: Surprise.

I really miss my old Nokia 5185 ... Over 15+ years, it was stepped on by horses, gnawed on by sheep and puppies, run over by tractors, "cured" in the smokehouse overnight, left outdoors in the rain overnight a few times, dropped into toilets (three times), into a pot of boiling soup (twice) and into a bucket of used motor oil (once). When $TELCO forced me to retire it, it was still on its original battery, and didn't seem to function much different than the day it was new. I did have to replace the outer case and the "antenna" several times.

Damn, I miss that phone!

Re: another excuse

Hey, come on! Older Harleys are absolutely wonderful, in almost exactly the same way that older British cars are!

Re: What did you expect?

"a gopro or similair would surely be a superior option."

Much cheaper to replace when it falls off, too.

Re: You're holding it wrong!

If you prefer it inuendo, that zip-lock I mentioned up ^there somewhere might help.

Re: You're holding it wrong!

I find a small zip-lock bag keeps the phone away from rain or sweat. Won't survive a swim for very long, but if you fish it out in a hurry it's (usually) salvageable. If you pick your phone carefully, it'll be fully usable without removing the bag.

_{I said "phone", not "PIM, babysitter, gaming machine and pR0n viewer".}

Re: You're holding it wrong!

My phone is usually off, and stashed under the seat. When I'm riding, I'm riding, not playing with my toys. It's a self-preservation thing.

Re: You're holding it wrong!

Your damping ratio is wrong, Shirley.

_{Apple will probably be coming out with new approved mounts, only $999.99 ...}

"do you want the compiler to produce a warning for that?"

Absolutely not. I want a proper editor, and don't bother with spall chuckers when I'm programming.

Re: Horrible choices

The Register has a horrible choice of font for programming. Il and | all look very different with the font I selected for my text editor as do O and 0.❘and | look similar but ❘ is only valid in string constants and comments.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. —Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Re: -Werror

One could argue that most of the so-called "busywork" should have been taken care of years ago.

Some people make a big deal of tidying up their kitchen because they only do it once a month or so, whether it needs it or not. Me, I make sure the kitchen is clean every night before I go to bed. Only takes a couple minutes, max.

Re: Get me some drone footage of that alligator...

Why would you wish to inflict something as toxic as a youtube blogger on he denizens of a Florida swamp? What did they ever do to you?