TIL: Today I Learned

PatrThom · Apr 10, 2015

HCGLNS said:
Ron Jeremy comes standard in MSword clip art.

--Patrick

fade · Apr 10, 2015

HCGLNS said:
TIL: Ron Jeremy comes standard in MSword clip art.

PatrThom · Apr 10, 2015

fade said:
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For "comes?" Or for "MSword?

--Patrick

HCGLNS · Apr 10, 2015

sixpackshaker · Apr 10, 2015

HCGLNS said:
Ron Jeremy comes standard in MSword clip art.

did he print them all out first?

WasabiPoptart · Apr 10, 2015

HCGLNS said:
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It's called an aloha shirt.

[DOUBLEPOST=1428721367,1428721082][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, the first thing that came up when I searched for aloha shirt using MSWord was this:

Clearly it's @HCGLNS faulty terminology.

Bowielee · Apr 12, 2015

Today I learned that Rob Cantor, creator of this:

Is one of the members of Tally Hall.

PatrThom · Apr 12, 2015

Bowielee said:
Today I learned that Rob Cantor, creator of this:

Is one of the members of Tally Hall.

I've met his mom.
She's very proud of him.

--Patrick

bhamv3 · Apr 15, 2015

TIL that I cannot say "serendipitously" without accidentally saying "seren-dipshit-ly". It's happened three times today, two of them with the same person.

General Specific · Apr 15, 2015

HCGLNS said:
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Not for me

I see your search options says "Include Bing content" so it seems you are getting results from a general web search as well, I guess

fade · Apr 16, 2015

TIL: Dance remixes of 30s music is a thing.

An awesome thing.

I suppose it's due to the recent popularity of Great Gatsby parties.

filmfanatic · Apr 16, 2015

fade said:
TIL: Dance remixes of 30s music is a thing.

An awesome thing.

I suppose it's due to the recent popularity of Great Gatsby parties.

Do you mean electro-swing? Yeah, I discovered a few tunes of the genre and I'm hooked.

PatrThom · Apr 16, 2015

Now someone just needs to do a remix.

--Patrick

jwhouk · Apr 16, 2015

fade said:
TIL: Dance remixes of 30s music is a thing.

An awesome thing.

I suppose it's due to the recent popularity of Great Gatsby parties.

And, of course, there's also Postmodern Jukebox for the opposite.

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

TIL Many of the "horror movie" sounds I've heard over the decades are made by one instrument: the waterphone.

PatrThom · Apr 17, 2015

GasBandit said:
TIL Many of the "horror movie" sounds I've heard over the decades are made by one instrument: the waterphone.

And the glass harmonica. And the theremin.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

PatrThom said:
And the glass harmonica. And the theremin.

--Patrick

Well, I knew about those already, this one was genuinely new to me.

fade · Apr 17, 2015

PatrThom said:
And the glass harmonica. And the theremin.

--Patrick

The soundtrack to Brick was done on a wine glasses. Not played as a harp, but as percussive instruments. Damn good movie, too.

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

TIL android phone users (and google itself, naturally) can see everywhere they've taken the phone their google account is associated with at

http://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

Lesse... Home, work, burger king, work, subway, home, repeat for weeks and weeks. Yyyyyep.

Bubble181 · Apr 17, 2015

GasBandit said:
TIL android phone users (and google itself, naturally) can see everywhere they've taken the phone their google account is associated with at

http://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

Lesse... Home, work, burger king, work, subway, home, repeat for weeks and weeks. Yyyyyep.

Facebook would kill for comprehensive data like that. It truly is the Era of the End of Privacy.

Null · Apr 17, 2015

Well hell, Coulson said it on Agents of SHIELD: "My job gets a little easier every year. People surveil themselves now."

PatrThom · Apr 17, 2015

GasBandit said:
Well, I knew about those already, this one was genuinely new to me.

fade said:
The soundtrack to Brick was done on a wine glasses. Not played as a harp, but as percussive instruments. Damn good movie, too.

Let's not forget the good ol' tubular bells, too.

--Patrick

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

Bubble181 said:
Facebook would kill for comprehensive data like that. It truly is the Era of the End of Privacy.

Null said:
Well hell, Coulson said it on Agents of SHIELD: "My job gets a little easier every year. People surveil themselves now."

I was checking to see how far back it kept data, and I noticed at one point it disappeared for me. At first I thought "Oh, it must only store the data a couple years back" But then I noticed the exact day and route of the first day of location tracking being on again.

And it hit me.

On my droid 1, I usually kept the GPS/location device turned off to save battery life.

But one day in 2013 I needed directions to a hospital I'd never been to before. And I never thought to turn it back off again.

I'm going somewhere that serves alcohol for lunch, I think.

DarkAudit · Apr 17, 2015

GasBandit said:
I was checking to see how far back it kept data, and I noticed at one point it disappeared for me. At first I thought "Oh, it must only store the data a couple years back" But then I noticed the exact day and route of the first day of location tracking being on again.

And it hit me.

On my droid 1, I usually kept the GPS/location device turned off to save battery life.

But one day in 2013 I needed directions to a hospital I'd never been to before. And I never thought to turn it back off again.

I'm going somewhere that serves alcohol for lunch, I think.

I use an iPhone, but Google Maps is my GPS app of choice. No data. Not even going back to when I had an Evo.

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

DarkAudit said:
I use an iPhone, but Google Maps is my GPS app of choice. No data. Not even going back to when I had an Evo.

Yeah, I think it has to do with android more than google maps, with google maps just being the method that displays the stored android location API to you in a visible format.

sixpackshaker · Apr 17, 2015

Null said:
Well hell, Coulson said it on Agents of SHIELD: "My job gets a little easier every year. People surveil themselves now."

I know people that spend most of their day busting people for the crap they post on Facebook. Felons are dumb.

Dei · Apr 17, 2015

GasBandit said:
Yeah, I think it has to do with android more than google maps, with google maps just being the method that displays the stored android location API to you in a visible format.

Google now is really just creepy. It knows my daily schedule better than I do. [emoji14]

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

Dei said:
Google now is really just creepy. It knows my daily schedule better than I do. [emoji14]

I've known for a while that it's been watching me, because it always pops up "this is when you usually go to work, so here's the traffic on that route." And it does the same for where I usually go to lunch, where I usually get dinner on the way home, and of course the route home.

So I knew it was watching, I just didn't know there was such a convenient way to display the data.

Dei · Apr 17, 2015

Actually, what's creepy is that my new car ALSO knows my daily schedule, and has a + mode for extra efficiency whenever I'm near home.

Celt Z · Apr 17, 2015

Siri/Cortana is really HAL in disguise!

WasabiPoptart · Apr 17, 2015

Celt Z said:
Siri/Cortana is really HAL in disguise!

Aussie and I say they're actually GLaDOS.

klew · Apr 17, 2015

I always have google tracking off unless I'm navigating, or traveling (so I can use it as a GPS log of where I went sightseeing)

ncts_dodge_man · Apr 17, 2015

klew said:
I always have google tracking off unless I'm navigating, or traveling (so I can use it as a GPS log of where I went sightseeing)

Same here, so no history for me.

Null · Apr 17, 2015

I don't have a smartphone or a laptop, so...

GasBandit · Apr 17, 2015

Null said:
I don't have a smartphone or a laptop, so...

Aw, man, I still have my old droid 1 I could just yank the sim card from and let you have that, if you were local.

Or heck, I think I still have my Sidekick 3 if you wanted to be ultra hipster retro. Of course, that doesn't have a GPS in it.