Odd, I didn’t read that slanted line as smoke at all, but that the artist was being dragged off by… someone … mid-stroke, as it were.

Being keelhauled under a modern car sounds no less painfully lethal than the original. Yikes.

Idk, I asked my mechanic to replace the locks in the driver door (which is a word in my language) and the opposite rear door.

They changed one lock, on the wrong front door. -_-

If this classic isn’t linked from that Wikipedia article (I never checked) it really should be. Like the “static cling” image, evnen encyclopedias need to know when to step out of formal style. 🤭

“Help me.”

Hey that’s a neat tool. Link?

I’d invite you to watch a bit of the YouTube channel “Clickspring” and ask if you’d like to revise your statement. 🙂 As a spoiler, he starts off with a blank desk, builds a lathe, and then an entire antikythera mechanism - by hand, using essentially bronze-age technology. And, he does that while making it look so very mesmerising and elegant. Time well wasted!

This is almost entirely unrelated but I just love how Bodo Wartke can sing his Liebeslied in “Turkish German” (and unbelievable dozens of other languages).

It’s even funnier with “point of sale” machines (ie. cash registers and/or payment terminals). We just sent the customer our newest and best POS! 😂👌

When I first got into BSD (way before Linux) I found man pages useful… but no way to leave them. Not even man man won’t tell you how to exit a man page!

So I would tinker, eventually needing a man page, reading what I needed – and then hard power cycle the machine. -_-

I was pretty good with computers, but that was a humbling experience. You just don’t know what you don’t know, and if you can’t ask… sometimes you just get stuck. Just like in KQ, LSL, SQ, … The Internet is (was) a blessing.

I don’t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

I’ve been sitting like that for a week now. 👌

Krita is such a horrible crashy mess - most of the time all I need is good old MS Paint (plus free rotate) but I after two decades of Linux I’ve yet to find a paint app that doesn’t overcomplicate everything with layers and selectors and modes. 😭

I read a similar story about how a child (of parents who were fighting a lot) had a teddy bear who came alive at night to “fight the nightmare monsters” which were, somehow, real. That poor teddy looked worse for wear as time went on, it was a real tear jerker. (I’m totally not tearing up just thinking about it, you’re cutting onions ya bastard)

I’m using personal calling cards, so not in a business context. Mine only have the few pieces of information I can trust to never change (name, phone, email) and are made to look very vintage - but have a QR code with the same info on the back, because I know that people want digital.

My overall experience is that it’s very convenient in the moment, and leaves an impression of a rare and slightly quirky exchange. I’ve never had a negative reaction.

Oh boy, story time. This was six years ago (and a machine translation of what I wrote back then).

My daughter doubts that the tooth fairy exists.

She mentioned this today on the way home from school. Then we had a little chat about how “believing in X” versus “X exists” relate to one-other.

I then asked if we could find out if the tooth fairy exists? We could, for example, set a trap: then we could see for ourselves! My daughter thought that was too cruel and anyway, imagine if something happened to the tooth fairy? All right, but we can make something that won’t harm the fairy … but no, she doesn’t want the fairy to get caught. Fine, then we can put the tooth on a plate of flour so we can see the tracks? No, because fairies can fly! Then maybe we can make a little “roof” so the tooth fairy has to land and crawl? Yes, that was accepted.

…But how big is such a tooth fairy really? I have to admit that I’ve never considered that … have you? I made a roof out of a plastic container, but my daughter thought that a fairy is definitely smaller, so we settled for a corner of the roof - yes, now the fairy can’t fly under!

I’ve also talked to her about whether “no footprints” means “the tooth fairy doesn’t exist” and whether “footprints” means "the tooth fairy exists (or whether there might be fairies even if there are no footprints). So now we’re waiting anxiously to see if we can see any traces tomorrow! (Hint: yes, there are traces: you can see that the tooth fairy has been on her knees and tried to reach the tooth, but couldn’t. So there’s a small letter instead of a coin.)

Oh yes, how we lie to the coming generation… Forgive me, daughter!

The following day after school, she had brought a friend home and I casually asked if she’d checked on the trap? She had not! They both raced up to her room and I could hear the shouts of glee. They definitely believed in the tooth fairy! But also, my daughter was somewhat distraught and wrote an apology letter for having teased the fairy and ask for forgiveness. Such a sweet kiddo. Still is.

Rude.

Also, I should be sleeping, not scrolling…

That is disgusting.

For what it’s worth, I never have less than hundreds of tabs across dozens of windows, and I don’t think I’ve ever pissed in a bottle.

Also, it’s not about bookmarks, I have a ton of those too - many of them with keywords for power querying.

And they got disqualified from the Oscars “because they cheated” – the following year there was a brand new nomination category for computer generated effects…

When the fuck did you compare? Uh, wording, but whatever.