also my aunt (the credit union CEO lady) is super strict on "organic foods only" and it's really fucking annoying.
Once, we were on a vacation to Philadelphia, hadn't eaten anything all day, and her husband (my uncle, the police chief, the one I always complain about), bought some soft pretzels for us, and she flipped out on him and actually, literally, threw them to the ground.
like, she's a perfectly normal person otherwise, I don't understand how people get like this.
i couldn't get my backup drive working and nearly had a heart attack. i hate computers. i'm going to get a physical address book if I have to pry it from dead hands, and I'm going to write down seven digit phone numbers like God intended. And I'm going to do as the angry computer person said and buy another backup drive and bury it with my gold.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You can still get away with seven-digit phone numbers? We have to use all 10, because they just added a second area code for Columbus a few months ago.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It's kinda funny, the proliferation of mobile phones, combined with the fact that many people don't change their mobile phone number when they move to another city, has left us with this thing where area codes are effectively nominal and, from a practical standpoint, you just have 10-digit telephone numbers.
And whiles they spake the door of the castle was opened and there nighed them a mickle noise as of many that sat there at meat. And there came against the place as they stood a young learningknight yclept Dixon. And the traveller Leopold was couth to him sithen it had happed that they had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learningknight lay by cause the traveller Leopold came there to be healed for he was sore wounded in his breast by a spear wherewith a horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice.
I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second or perhaps less; I don’t know how many birds I saw. Were they a definite or an indefinite number? This problem involves the question of the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because how many birds I saw is known to God. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because nobody was able to take count. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let’s say) and more than one; but I did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, but not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That number, as a whole number, is inconceivable; ergo, God exists.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what's so unnecessary?
The backlight on this keyboard has three brightness settings. Three.
I only ever use it with the backlight turned off, or with it on max brightness. The dimmer ones don't seem to serve much purpose.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
By default, the portables with ambient light sensors (ALS) automatically adjust the brightness of the keyboard backlight based on the ambient light in the environment. The ALS, located to the left of the FaceTime camera, evaluates the level of light for this feature.
You know, with an automatic adjustment feature, having a whole bunch of brightness levels actually makes sense.
My laptop, being a low-end ASUS, of course has no such thing; I have to switch it on and off manually and often I can't be bothered. :P
(Also, it's called a "FaceTime camera" now? I miss "iSight".)
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
right, right
Yclept => Extremely archaic past participle form (y-) of the now-obsolete clepe, "to name, to bestow a title."
Couth => Archaic form of the modern word could, in the older sense "(had) known."
Sithen => Precursor, via the variant sithence, of "since."
Nobody needs this
It is.
Dark, but funny.
MacBooks have 16, not including "all the way down"
I think I keep mine somewhere in the middle but I barely ever need it on max brightness
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
My laptop, being a low-end ASUS, of course has no such thing; I have to switch it on and off manually and often I can't be bothered. :P
(Also, it's called a "FaceTime camera" now? I miss "iSight".)