Friday, May 10, 2019

When you are too lazy to walk to the refrigerator?



This is so tardly is makes me laugh. It has to mean we are at peak everything. Right?

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  1. Capital of Texas RefugeeFriday, May 10, 2019 5:14:00 PM

    "[This] has to mean we are at peak everything. Right?

    No.

    Your video doesn't even come up to the tard level of Honeywell in the 1960s.

    "Not surprisingly, none were sold."

    You have no idea how this "computer as recipe file" was an incredibly retarded meme that wouldn't go away.

    All through the 1970s and 1980s, as I was fiddling with little electronics projects, my mother would tell me that what she really, really needed was a computer or some sort of pre-PDA to hold her recipe file.

    I wasn't the only kid with EE skills to get this, not anywhere close.

    One day many years later, my sister and I solemnly incinerated the cardboard recipe file and made promises never, ever to cook any of that crap from memory for any of our kids or our guests.

    I have to remind myself "but this is good Scandinavian food" when I'm in Stockholm and I see some of the same things being made.

    But the drone ...

    OMG THE NOISE IS LIKE A SQUADRON OF RETARDED HORNETS OPERATING A HOVERING LAWNMOWER

    All of the household cats are frightened at first, but one day one intrepid and very annoyed cat launches himself at the drone while it's carrying an important package of wine and cheese ...

    The intended recipient gets to clean up the spilled wine while the cat snaffles the cheese.

    CAT 1, HOUSE OWNER 0

    :-)

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  2. I don't even understand what that device is! But that theme actually went on way into the 2000's. I think iPads might have finally made that stop.

    It's amazing how loud drones are! You can hear them from hundreds of feet away. So, being that close - the noise would be super annoying. Cats though......that is an interesting idea. And could be the only thing that makes drone racing fun. You could call it cat racing league. I think I'd pay to see that.... once.

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  3. Capital of Texas RefugeeSaturday, May 11, 2019 11:17:00 PM

    "I don't even understand what that device is!"

    It's actually an upgraded 1960s ARPANet node (pre-IPv4 "Internet") with an "integrated" kitchen cutting board ...

    No, really, look at it closely. :-)

    That anyone would have even considered wanting one was a bit of a reach.

    Did I mention that systems of this era typically had magnetic core memory and flipper switches instead of an actual terminal and keyboard? :-)

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