Possible candidate for Grooviest Sound Ever Created

Aw I forgot that it was Eurovision tonight so instead spent the evening recording me reading weird WP pages aloud for WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia. Hard to pick a favourite quote but “Bacon, with the help of a Friar Bungy or Bungay was said to have spent seven years building one of the devices in order to discover whether it would be possible to render Britain impregnable by ringing it with a wall of brass” was particularly fun.

“You can amaze your friends and get attention at a banquet by hanging a spoon from your nose or by hanging multiple spoons from your nose and face. It is harder than it looks.”

At a banquet. WikiHow is truly the web’s gift which keeps on giving.

https://www.wikihow.com/Hang-a-Spoon-from-Your-Nose

I found it. The best video on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5qVxAoKwbE

Fortunately, it was not.

https://xkcd.com/1273/

If VLC is behaving weirdly, check that you didn’t accidentally press Command-Z to try to undo something. For some reason, that shortcut activates “Random” playback mode, which can result in the same track repeating, or playback stopping rather than continuing to the next item.

The first attempt at super high resolution microsopy… did not work.

tfw you want to namedrop an arabic mathematician but can only be bothered to copy+paste the diacritics once :/

Listening to @HistPhilosophy about the desert fathers, and can’t help but remember this gem from @TheToast http://the-toast.net/2016/02/23/the-desert-fathers/

I love doing PCB design because it lets me take advantage of periods of high mental capacity to front-load large amounts of problem solving work, so that in the future I only have to mindlessly solder-paint-by-numbers and everything will Just Work™.

Possibly the most complicated thing I’ve ever designed. Now to order some boards and see if it works!

sweet jesus, that’s not philosophy, you’re eating m̧̺͔̳̙͍̫͆ë͙̰̻͖̄ͦ̃͒͗̈́m̱̭ͤ̄̎̓̚̚͠ĕ͉͚ͯ͋ͫ͜s̨̲̳̞̟ͥͅ

Philosophers: [quietly doing philosophy]

@HistPhilosophy:

Riddle me this, bible scholars: reading through Genesis 1, it seems like god singles out whales as being particularly significant. They’re the first animals to get created (1:21), other sea creatures get created afterwards, and then when mankind shows up we get dominion over, specifically: the “fish of the sea”, birds, and “creeping things that creepeth” (1:26).

But NOT whales. They are the only animals created by god which get to escape the dominion of mankind. Is that why one ate Jonah later on? Was this supposed to be a major plot point, but which became less relevant after most of the action moved onto the land?

Please tell me that this isn’t like the “whoever finds a treetop, he will get the master magic” line at the beginning of the Kalevala which nobody ever mentions again. I read the entire thing, patiently waiting for someone to find a treetop but it never happened. What is the master magic? Is it different from the complete knowledge of the universe Väinämöinen gained from Vipunen to finish his boat? CHECKOV’S GUN, PEOPLE

#TIL the direction of a pcbnew (KiCAD) selection changes its behaviour. LtoR only selects completely surrounded parts, RtoL selects partially selected parts.

I can’t find this feature documented anywhere, but the selection colours are different so I assume it’s supposed to be like this.

EDIT: apparently it’s something of a de-facto UI standard in CAD apps, probably started by AutoCAD.