A newly convicted criminal arrived in prison, and on the first night he was puzzled to hear his fellow inmates yelling numbers to each other. "36!" one would yell, and the rest would chuckle. "19!" went another, to uproarious laughter. "50," remarked a third wryly, which provoked groans and ironic cheers. Eventually his cellmate sat up and cried out "114" and it brought the house down.
In a lull, he asked his cellmate what on earth was going on? The cellmate explained that most of them had been in prison so long that they already knew all the jokes, so to save time they just referred to them by number. "Oh," says the man, "that makes sense. Can I try?"
His cellmate encouraged him to go ahead, so he stood up and went to the bars and shouted as loud as he could "95!"
Absolutely no reaction. His cellmate looked at him and shook his head. "You didn't tell it right."
And some time later, someone shouts “72!” Everyone chuckles except from the one in the corner cell, who laughs so loud and for so long people think he'll have a heart attack. When eventually he stops laughing, someone yells: “Hey Fred, why did you laugh so much?”
“I'd never heard that one!”
Ha, you made me think of casually referring to xkcd's by number just as we did with RFC's back in the day. "I don't know, the socket states seem to follow RFC 793, but remember it's a 1918 address on the southside of the NAT."
I gonna keep a look out for doing this with xkcd's now :)
There are a few that pop out but the one that has managed to stick (aside from 1053 that just came up), is 927 for standards, which you can remember as 3^2 for 9 and 3^3 for 27. Or Yoda's age + the 27 club.
The music is so moving, tear inducing. One of the best links I've seen posted here and I've been here 15+ years. Well done Neal. I wish credit was given to the music, anyone know who created it?
Teenage Engineering's products for consumers are things like a big white cube that's a speaker and a round puck-like thing that's a remote. Their products with lots of buttons and knobs are for audio creators. Look at a mixing board.
Not really though. When people are busy and attempting to go from A to B, they may want to eliminate variables to better focus on their friends or something else in the Waymo.
This is similar to the experiment where an incredible musician played violin in the subway terminal and people 'ignored' him. It's all about intention, when people plan to talk to a stranger, they're geared for that, if they are on their way somewhere, it's not the time or place to stop and 'smell the roses' most of the time as they are in a rush, doesn't have much to do with how great the musician is in the subway. When people go to a concert, and if that's same musician in the subway, they'll most definitely enjoy it, because they're planning on enjoying music at that time.
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I really want to like Claude, but I hit their limit WAY too early when I PAID for it, 9 months ago, WAY before I hit any type of limit on gippity. (gippity - gpt , gimminy - gemini).
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why do you do it?
Doc Holliday: Wyatt is my friend.
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: I don’t.
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