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Sarah, in some classic office shenanigans.
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Under the Fuzzy Green Hat
Hi! I'm Lucas Wagner, an info technicalist and student journalist from the snowy depths of northern Alberta. Here's what I've been thinking about lately.
Compare/contrast with Apple’s iPad ad shown during the Oscars. It might be just the editing on this, but everything seems just a tad too artificial and rough in this promo for my liking; especially on the Google Maps zoom.
Also, how high do you have to be to put a loading screen in the middle of an ad for a product that’s meant to be seamless?
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They Might Be Giants — “We Live In A Dump” (Demo)
Unlike much of my Giants collection, this track was actually self-discovered; four years ago, during the summer, I called into the now-defunct TMBG Dial-A-Song using Skype, and recorded this song.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, it would be the last song ever played on the service before its death.
Anyway. Enjoy.
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Likes on spec
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Forced Picture of Your New Haircut for Your Mom Monday!
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“Would you say classy?” “I wouldn’t say classy.”
I was just re-listening to classic YLNT episode “The Sake Period”, and found this glaring continuity error. I’ll let you try to find it for yourself, but I’ve put the answer upside-down below if you’re still stumped.
¡ʇɐɥ ɐ ƃuıɹɐǝʍ ʇ,usı uılɹǝɯ :ʇı pǝssǝnƃ noʎ
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On Track 2
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World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Hotkey bug!
From user “Kwakmeister” of the World of Warcraft Forums:
Ok im new to hotkeying so im most likely doing something wrong. I can hotkey alt to anything but the function keys. I can do alt+f1, f2, f3 but when i get to f4 it crashes my game EVERY TIME! Its annoying because I have to reset all my hotkeys cuz a game crash doesnt save them. Please fix soon!
Since my audience tends to skew nerd-supernerd, let’s have a quick laugh before I start pontificating. “Ha! What an idiot! He didn’t even know that ALT+F4 quits a program in Windows! No wonder he couldn’t bind that hotkey! Strike down with the cluehammer, and roll out the ASCII Picard Facepalm! L.O.L!”
Okay. Now that our schadenfreude’s been satisfied, let’s get serious. Under what insane mnemonic shortcut system does ALT+F4 mean “quit program”? I’m guessing it’s some holdover from the DOS era, or from Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, but why some programmer analyst would pick it over Control+Q is baffling.
So, I open it up to you: instead of trying to scientifically Google something, why not just make stuff up? What’s your ALT+F4 origin story?
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