They are, and that's what started the project that resulted in the World's Roundest Object.
--Patrick
TIL: Today I Learned
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TIL that the term "Court Jew" was a term.
Yeah, I was playing a fantasy campaign set in the actual European Middle Ages, and I told the GM that I wanted to take a diamond to the Court Jew, he just about exploded at me. He treated me like an anti-Semite. I told him that at the time Christians did not do any banking or similar trading.
Did he let you use the term, or did the game turn into one of those 90s kids movies based in that time?
No he was Jewish and started with "I can't believe you just said that."
Ooooooooooooooooh, that guy must've felt dumb afterwards.
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Maybe they meant at painting, or something. I mean, I will freely admit that I am worse than Hitler when it comes to painting.
You should have told him at least Hitler had a job. WHO'S WORSE THAN HITLER NOW, KID??
I want to hear how this story happened. Please enlighten us with your tale!
Having been called similar, chances are good it was some disenfranchised citizen who decided to run their suck after having received a citation of some flavor, at some point in the not-too-distant past.
You, Frankie and I need to all gather in a bar somewhere and compare notes. Then get chit-faced.
Today I learned that playwright Samuel Beckett at one time drove Andre the Giant to school.
That last Tourette's scene with him peeking over his sweater with the angry eyebrows is what I remember most about that PSA.
--Patrick
TIL that I am good at what I do.
Go on....
This was the post on Lifehacker that got me to start thinking about how I bookmark and use Evernote a little differently. Now I am starting to conceive of it as my own personal curated internet. Bookmarks in Chrome are only for multi-page resources (say, Wikipedia) or online, interactive tools (say, KnightCite) and just a few that I use frequently (say, Halforums) and want there for convenience. Any article I particularly like, recipe I want to save, etc. now is clipped to Evernote. Some of them are just bookmarks I don't intend to use frequently. Some are articles that I might like to read. I am seriously considering porting in my extensive library of research articles that I use for my writing.
I will use my phone or a tablet for putting in notes, ideas, etc. and have categorized everything into useful notebooks (scholarship, teaching, home, etc.) and tag each item that goes in with broad tags for easy indexing later. It has cleaned up Chrome a lot (a lot!) and puts some of the interesting things I come across in easier reach for use in my work or creative endeavors. Although the initial excitement may yet wear off...
That sounds like how I use Pinterest. Though after reading your post now I'm thinking about how I can use it for saving resources for my papers since I can have private pinboards. Hmm.
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I like Pocket for this purpose.[DOUBLEPOST=1391008222,1391008030][/DOUBLEPOST]TIL that the NES generation consoles and pcs used 3 tone generators for audio which isn't surprising. What is surprising is that lacking any true PCM capabilities, they generated sampled audio using a crude three term Fourier synthesis which was actually quite taxing on the hardware. It also explains the clipping.
Relevant link about sinewave synthesis of vocal speech, which this reminded me of. It's fascinating.
--Patrick
Well, that's what the female armadillos are saying. I think they're probably sneaking some males in after hours. Like Rapunzel.
The fact the researchers just assumed all dillo's with a pink bow on the head were female without checking under the skirts probably helped a bit, too.
Hahahahaha! I wouldn't doubt that at all, my dear.
The fuck, why am I not in invited? Tabarnaque.
TIL my 8 year old writes poetry.