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Children of vegan parents will be called "Children of the Quorn".
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We'll call the next decade the Quaranteens.
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Saw a news item somewhere which said that twins born about 15 days ago were named as Covid and Corona.
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Not surprising, some parents must have a warped sense of humor.
Yeah let's name him Richard, with a last name of Lipps no one will mess with him!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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"Corona-baby" was on the Norwegian list of corona-related words to be voted as the most important new word caused by the pandemic.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Where was it I put my coat?, I know it's here somewhere...
Where ya gonna go? Huh? Huh?
You're not allowed to go anywhere!
Sit down! Right now!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That's true I'm in time out!
Young enough to know I can.
Old enough to know I shouldn't.
Stupid enough to do it anyway!
JaxCoder.com
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Apocalyptica - Ashes Of The Modern World[^]
Metal played on four cellos!
Apocalyptica recently released a new album and they've gone back to basics.
They started out in 1996 by playing Metallica on four cellos and it became a huge hit.
After that they released a couple of cello only metal albums.
The last one I listened was their self-titled fifth album from 2005, where they started experimenting with drums and vocals.
The new album still has drums but the vocals are gone (save for some spoken samples).
It triggered me to give them another listen and I like what I'm hearing.
I might check out the albums I've missed over the years, this is good stuff!
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I've been into metal lately.
Luckily I also like trance a lot 
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Is your cat coming out of her (his?) shell yet? Mine has looked for attention a few times this week, and surprised me!
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Yes, she's coming from under the couch now 
She still won't let me come near, but at least she's (mostly) out of hiding so I call that a win.
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Here in South Africa we call traffic lights robots. Click on the robots to prove you're not a robot 
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This was most confusing thing to me. On the first day at the plant, I asked at the entrance the directions to office I had to go. He told me to drive straight, turn left from second robot, continue till I cross rail track, turn right from first robot and then there is visitor parking on right. I was amazed that there are robots walking around in the plant (like they show in movies). I did not see a single robot and was lost in the plant for about 15 minutes.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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reCaptcha is consistently rubbish, as far as I can tell. Either that or I'm an automaton. (I hate that, for one thing, it's American and assumes we all know exactly what a fire hydrant looks like. In the UK fire hydrants are neatly hidden away under covers in the ground).
Some years ago I spent half an hour writing a captcha routine in vb.net that colours and distorts text; but using characters that are not easily confused (so I don't use I l 1, 0 or O etc) and easily configurable as to the extent of distortion. Works well and I use it on most of my sites. I'd do an article on it but, on second thoughts, I'll wait until it dominates the world and then start charging for it... 
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Well, google thanks you for all the unpaid work you've done for them, training their AIs.
Oh, wait...
No it doesn't.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And it should work [^]
The only question to ask is: "What could possibly go wrong?"
I do hope they've looked at the possible impact of forcing clouds to form over the sea, where forest fires don't frequently occur.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: The only question to ask is: "What could possibly go wrong?"
Doing nothing - that's what could go wrong - doing anything considered and almost sane is better than sitting around doing nothing - if it doesnt work, then you can modify/try another approach
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I won't argue against that, because degradation of the reef is having hideous effects on just about everything in the region, but if you don't figure out what side-effects it could have before you start, it may be too late to figure out what to do about them after the effect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: forcing clouds to form over the sea
Well the article is clear that's not what they're doing; they're whitening the existing clouds. It has no impact (in theory) on the level of cloud cover. However I suspect it may make the rain fall (when it does eventually) as sea water, and if it does that over land, they may find they end up helping the coral but desertifying the land. Given the very very small effect that they can be expecting, one also has to wonder whether the negative environmental effects of mining / extracting the salt, transporting the salt, running the turbine (and extracting / transporting the fuel for the turbine(s)) may not massively outweigh the benefits.
On a slightly different topic, here in the UK we've had three weeks of largely unbroken sunshine (though rain is forecast for this afternoon). For a month traditionally associated with showers, that's very odd and I suspect part of the reason is the almost total absence of aircraft contrails. I saw one yesterday and, with little breeze, it was still clearly visible 15 minutes later but spread out over a wide arc of the sky. Given we normally get several high-altitude aircraft crossing over per minute, the overall impact on cloud cover must be considerable. In global warming terms, those clouds are acting as a blanket by night. I do hope someone is doing some serious (home-based) research to see if the effects are statistically significant.
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Even when I'm certain I know exactly what I'm doing, if someone asks me if I know what I'm doing, I reply "no".
And the most amazing thing about me is that I'm always right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gas is cheap and I am grounded!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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/ravi
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