xkcd makes me sad
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I prefer JAWHOOUAK
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BErt
And you'd be wrong.
The name is German. We have every reason to believe that my grandfather may have actually spelled it "Hauch", but he never signed his name to anything. So, the pronunciation of the "ou" is like the "au" sound in German. IOW: <HOWK>.
No, I'm pretty sure the fact that I get the name confused is 100% true. It's the graphological similarity that does it for me, not the sound.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Acid Burn and Crash Override are the "hacker aliases" of Angelina Jolie and whats-his-face in the movie, Hackers. They hack the planet. And now, apparently, the satellites.
figmentPez
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Comes with a 50-lb sack of gender changers, and also an add-on device with a voltage selector and a zillion circular center pin DC adapter tips so you can power any of those devices from the 90s.
Still missing:
- XLR
- MIDI / Game Port / DA-15
- Displayport
- BNC
- Several varieties of serial port (DE-9, DIN-8, RS-422, etc.)
- SATA / eSATA
I would like to take this moment to also direct your attention to Sonic840's excellent computer connector chart over on deviantART.
You can see the much better, higher-resolution copy by jumping over to the source page.
Also, the box will need S/PDIF, optical audio, a split between FireWire 400/800/1600/3200, BNC Video, Thicknet (10Base-2), AUI, AAUI, HD15 video, Wifi transceiver, IR transceiver, ADB,PS/2*, SCSI HD-30...
...I'm thinking this would be a much bigger project than originally anticipated.
--Patrick
*Oops, nevermind. I thought he was referring to the video console in his image, not the peripheral bus.
You can see the much better, higher-resolution copy by jumping over to the source page.
Also, the box will need S/PDIF, optical audio, a split between FireWire 400/800/1600/3200, BNC Video, Thicknet (10Base-2), AUI, AAUI, HD15 video, Wifi transceiver, IR transceiver, ADB,
...I'm thinking this would be a much bigger project than originally anticipated.
--Patrick
*Oops, nevermind. I thought he was referring to the video console in his image, not the peripheral bus.
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Today's XKCD sums up exactly how I feel about the vast supermajority of beer in the world.
--Patrick
--Patrick
The fact that we have cider and apple ale ads on TV tells you that a lot of millennials agree with you and know they can do better.
Meh, most beer DOES taste bad, but I'll never say I drink beer because it tastes good. I have beers that I prefer to drink if I I'm going to be drinking something for a few hours. This is probably the reason I'm not a beer snob--it was never about the taste in the first place. In fact, I largely agree with Jun on the taste of alcohol and would probably be better off with a really fruity/sweet wine, but not that I'll ever admit that to her.
It's an acquired taste. I still remember my first beer and how terrible it was and to a certain extent I can still taste what I didn't like the first time.
But I genuinely do like beer maybe not to the extent that I can necessarily tell you that this one is hoppy and this one has had special spices added to the batch at a certain point of fermentation but I can tell what's a good beer and what is swill.
But I genuinely do like beer maybe not to the extent that I can necessarily tell you that this one is hoppy and this one has had special spices added to the batch at a certain point of fermentation but I can tell what's a good beer and what is swill.
Spinach. Though I think the reason I hated it as a kid was because it always either came from a can or was boiled into mush. Nowadays I'd prefer to have spinach replace the iceberg lettuce in almost every sandwich/burger I eat.
--Patrick
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Kale! Oh my god it makes every soup better! I used to hate it so much!
Everyone, including Munroe, seem to treat taste as some kind of invariable law; that we all taste the same. We clearly don't. That said, I chuckled at his comic.
Licorice not my favorite flavor but it is no longer an anathema to everything I like.
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I know some people definitely taste better than others.
figmentPez
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Maybe it had something to do with being in my 30s before I had my first beer, but I liked beer from my first one.
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"Wait, so in this version is Frankenstein also the doctor's name?" "No, he's just 'The Doctor'."