I am working my way through every episode of Geek Nights that has been posted.
I just listened to the first 150! It has been interesting to listen to the prediction that Rym and Scott make with my future knowledge.
Were we right?
So far you guys were right about most of the tech/ computer related stuff. I found it funny how excited over the news of the Wii you were, for me that is the thing you made the biggest prediction about that did not pan out.
That's when we learned a valuable lesson. Nintendo never fulfills its potential. Up until that point, they had, mostly. Nintendo's failures prior to that point were the Virtual Boy, The Power Glove, The Super Scope, The Power Pad, GCN-GBA link cable, etc. These were mostly sideshows, and not main attractions. The Wii/Revolution was the first time they made their weird thing the main attraction. Now we know.
The Sunday meeting between EU officials and the Greeks was supposed to provide an agreement that could be nodded off on Thursday at an EU summit, the final chance (no, really this time) to work something out to avoid a Grexit.
They parted after 45 minutes. Greek officials said the EU didn't compromise; the EU officials said instead of meeting at the appointed hour, the Greeks had breakfast.
Nintendo endlessly produces tech demos and then fervently hopes that third party devs will carry the weight of actually implementing their genius. Third party devs who do Nintendo mostly just want to make ports from other systems and/or low effort cash grabs that these days could be an app on a phone.
For some reason, Nintendo has kept on doing this despite the fact that it never works out. What their real motivation is, I don't know, but it seems like they can't REALLY be this oblivious in trying a failed formula over and over.
I haven't seen that many assholes on Yik Yak, really. I mean some sure, but most of the worse its dumbasses looking for weed like that isn't the easiest sting operation around.
I haven't seen that many assholes on Yik Yak, really. I mean some sure, but most of the worse its dumbasses looking for Sex like that isn't the easiest sting operation around.
The only time I've heard it mentioned before was because it was being used to anonymously bully grade school kids.
It was kinda cool for a couple weeks and has been on the decline ever since. It hasn't really been relevant for 6-7 months, especially now that old people know about it.
EDIT: IIRC yikyak is disabled near schools (except colleges) to prevent this sort of thing.
Turns out there's no direct documentation that John Quincy Adams believed there were mole people inside the hollow earth, but there is reason to believe he did and it is somehow even more hilarious.
So, it begins with John Cleves Symmes, Jr, who was a flat Earth believer. He and his followers were able to urge Congress to fund an expedition to the antarctic to conduct trade with the inhabitants of the inside of earth. Opponents of the proposal stated that colonizing a land so remote would be a poor choice of resources, and would be an ultimately costly venture (they notably did not argue that the earth is solid). JQA never officially weighed in on the issue -- besides one remark in his journal that he supported an exploration of "the southern sea". No mention of the presence or lack there of of mole people.
We may never know JQA's beliefs, because the proposal died in Congress. However, in the following administration, the proposal found quite a bit of success, and nearly made it into law before the recently elected President, Andrew Jackson, "put an end to it" (I'm not sure exactly what that means).
The efforts were not futile, however. Symmes' inspired one Mr Jeremiah Reynolds, notable for writing a short story called "Mocah Dick." I'll let you figure out who read that. Reynolds fought admirably for the expedition, gathering funding for an exploration of the same general area, but not based in the hollow earth theory. Jackson approved of finding more brown people to kill, and funded the Wilkes Expedition, which was significant in ways I don't completely understand.
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They parted after 45 minutes. Greek officials said the EU didn't compromise; the EU officials said instead of meeting at the appointed hour, the Greeks had breakfast.
This, I think, adequately sums up the current state of affairs.
For some reason, Nintendo has kept on doing this despite the fact that it never works out. What their real motivation is, I don't know, but it seems like they can't REALLY be this oblivious in trying a failed formula over and over.
Huzzah! At least if it does what it says...
Where does the fractal end?
EDIT: IIRC yikyak is disabled near schools (except colleges) to prevent this sort of thing.
So, it begins with John Cleves Symmes, Jr, who was a flat Earth believer. He and his followers were able to urge Congress to fund an expedition to the antarctic to conduct trade with the inhabitants of the inside of earth. Opponents of the proposal stated that colonizing a land so remote would be a poor choice of resources, and would be an ultimately costly venture (they notably did not argue that the earth is solid). JQA never officially weighed in on the issue -- besides one remark in his journal that he supported an exploration of "the southern sea". No mention of the presence or lack there of of mole people.
We may never know JQA's beliefs, because the proposal died in Congress. However, in the following administration, the proposal found quite a bit of success, and nearly made it into law before the recently elected President, Andrew Jackson, "put an end to it" (I'm not sure exactly what that means).
The efforts were not futile, however. Symmes' inspired one Mr Jeremiah Reynolds, notable for writing a short story called "Mocah Dick." I'll let you figure out who read that. Reynolds fought admirably for the expedition, gathering funding for an exploration of the same general area, but not based in the hollow earth theory. Jackson approved of finding more brown people to kill, and funded the Wilkes Expedition, which was significant in ways I don't completely understand.