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This one thing I know: there are a lot of Yankees fans out there who know how to pronounce my name.

(And a few Tigers and Red Sox fans, too.)
 

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.
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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.
 
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Necronic

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Its also a metaphor for how awesome it is, or was. The internet would not exist without the VM compiler stuff that Java does (and other software now does much better.)
 

Dave

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They work even better if you take them with our experimental placebo booster, which I keep in the same bottle.
 
True for a lot of crappy beers; not true at all for a lot of better beers. To each their own and some people just have a different range of tastes they respond to. But me, personally, I can say I really do enjoy a lot of good beers on their own rights.
 
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.
 

GasBandit

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I can think of a few things that tasted bad to me as a teenager that now taste good. Beer is one of them. Broccoli is another.
 
I can think of a few things that tasted bad to me as a teenager that now taste good. Beer is one of them. Broccoli is another.
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
 

GasBandit

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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
Kale! Oh my god it makes every soup better! I used to hate it so much!
 
There are beers I like and beers I don't. In Colorado I have so many beers to choose from. SO MANY. Too bad I don't really drink. [emoji14]
 

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.
 

Necronic

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Huh, see I feel like almost every beer tastes great. Nice cool yeasty refreshment. Polished off a bunch of Tecate last night while grilling fajitas. I just couldn't imagine another way of doing things.

...I may be an alcoholic.
 

figmentPez

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"Wait, so in this version is Frankenstein also the doctor's name?" "No, he's just 'The Doctor'."
 
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