Mostly lemon based

Category: General

  • codeorg:

    #ILookLikeAnEngineer

  • clatterbane:

    micdotcom:

    Now, other GOP candidates are saying we should repeal birthright citizenship

    In case you missed it, on Sunday, Donald Trump finally released his immigration policy. In it, he proposes a repeal of a key part of the 14th Amendment: the Citizenship Clause, that allows anyone born here to claim citizenship. Other candidates are now following suit — but that’s actually great news for Democrats in 2016.

    It’s like some kind of supervillain wannabe contest, at this point.

  • Damn evil technology

    So – years ago I bought a TV capture box. A relatively nice one. A Miglia Evolution TV. All brushed aluminium and shiny. They went bust, and so software support was discontinued with OS X 10.4.

    …which means that for all its shiny shiny, it doesn’t work. At all. Current versions of OS X don’t know how to talk to it and won’t let you even install the drivers.

    Which is upsetting.

    So I bought a cheap USB capture device from t’internet.

    Because, y’see, back in days of yore when this was all fields, and so on, there was an actual incompatibility between videos sold in the US and those sold in the UK. UK VHS videos were PAL – 625 glorious interlaced lines at 25 frames per second, and US ones were a somewhat lower res 525 lines, but a slightly faster frame rate of 30 frames per second.

    Now, in the grand scheme of things, I largely don’t give a monkeys. At this point in history nearly all video cassettes have been consigned to landfill or plastic recycling. However, I’ve four cassettes – and actually a fifth containing a film that shows no signs of coming out on DVD – that I’d like to capture.

    So I found a spare old tape to test it with and after freeing the motors off a little cerchunky-whirry:

    …

    Then I had to find the video cables for it. Because it uses SCART, which is a wildly convenient standard if you’ve got a SCART cable going into another SCART device. Less so if not. But, today I located (in the bucket of wires) my SCART to S-Video adaptor cable.

    Hurrah!

    Only not.

    Because I can’t get the tracking good enough for the crappy cheap USB capture stick. If I plug the video into the telly it’s VHSarrific. A bit wobbly, in the way that VHS sometimes was, but not unwatchably so. And fuzzy, in the way that I’d forgotten how bad VHS was. But otherwise… it works.

    Plug it in to the capture card and it is unwatchable. 2005 Video for Granada TV

    Imagine that high quality image flickering about all over the shop. It’s dreadful.

    Now, the question is, is this something that possibly a better video recorder (like lovely John has) might fix, or is it something that is a sign of such a flawed USB capture stick that it won’t work even then.

    Hopefully we shall find a solution. Not, of course, that I’m sharing this wonderful Promo that Nikki and I made for Granada. Oh no. Although, it’s quite entertainingly bad.

  • buzzfeed:

    17 Graphs That Will Speak To You If You’re An Introvert

  • mmmmmeeeeeehhhhhhh:

    bluerayofsunshine:

    tamthewriter:

    I’m not clear on the extent of the reporting, but I also know some of you aren’t out to your families. You might want to know about this. 

    Your privacy and your safety is important.

    *hugs you all*

    Windows confirms it

    don’t

    get

    windows 10

    Lord that’s creepy and shitty all rolled into one.

  • Lessig&

    lessig:

    So I’ve launched the exploratory committee for a run to be a “referendum president.” I’d serve only as long as it took to pass fundamental reform — the Citizen Equality Act of 2017 — and then I’d resign. Here’s the video explaining the launch (5:55m) and the video explaining the idea (2:51m). 

    Trying to get the team to press a new meme to the site. To support me is always to support me & someone else. So, e.g., 

    #Lessig&Hillary or #Lessig&Bernie or #Lessig&Warren

    Can you help me convince them by using them? 

    You know, Lessig/Warren or Lessig/Bernie I would totally vote for. If I could vote in the US. I’d even vote Lessig/Hillary – because frankly any Dem is better than the entire republican field.

  • lotrlocked:

    validcriticism:

    divinedorothy:

    sim0nbaz:

    foxsan:

    shuttersmiley:

    sourcedumal:

    jackthebard:

    Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
    There are only fake geek boys.
    Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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    Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

    Isaac Asimov.

    yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

    If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole – oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

    Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

    even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

    PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

    And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

    *files under always must reblog when seen*

  • The first time I called the CDC, I said that I wanted to talk to someone about possibly designing a zombie virus. …So every time I came up with a new iteration of Kellis-Amberlee, I would call back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t … don’t do that.” At that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

    Seanan McGuire / Mira Grant (via

    mmastertheone

    )

    (chuckle) Persistence in research pays off.

    (via dduane)

    #somewhere there is a CDC employee #who is both all out of fucks to give #and experiencing a mild level of perpetual background anxiety about maybe being complicit in the future zombie apocalypse #like I’m just imagining this one specific person fielding all of seanan’s phonecalls #maybe two a day over a period of weeks #and progressing from bemused politeness #to genuine amusement #to steadily escalating panic #’what if she’s not really a writer?’ #’what if I’m actually helping a supervillain??’ #’oh god I’m not paid enough for this’ #’I LIKE VIRUSES NOT THE GENERAL PUBLIC’ #’PLEASE TAKE ME OFF PHONE DUTY OH GOD’ #lowering their head gently into their cupped hands with the phone braced between ear and shoulder #’ma’am-’ #’ma’am we really don’t recommend-’ #’ma’am, no, that wouldn’t-’ #’ma’am please I really think-’ #’don’t… don’t do that-’ #and then she just STOPS CALLING #and after three days of radio silence this person starts discreetly checking the news for x-files-style stories about zombies #getting shit from their colleagues for their sudden fascination with trashy newspapers and trying to play it off #’HAHA YOU GUYS YOU’RE SO FUNNY’ #’YEAH ZOMBIE RACCOONS, IT’S TOTALLY HILARIOUS’ #’WHO WOULD EVEN DO THAT AM I RIGHT?’ #’IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’VE GOT US ON THEIR SIDE’ #’HAHA’ #’HAHAHAHAHA’  #*nervously wipes sweat from forehead*   

    (via fozmeadows)

  • 2sober4dis:

    minnielikes:

    galesofnovember:

    liketheghost:

    so is it a thing in (american) english to use “texas” as a word for like, something that’s out of control or chaotic, or as like, “crazy”? like “that party last weekend was totally texas!”

    because that is a thing people say in norwegian and i just think it’s important for americans to know that?

    this is the best thing I’ve ever heard

    i’m sorry wHAT

    this is the texas-est shit i’ve ever heard

  • solarbird:

    everysinglewordspoken:

    Obama: “Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”

    This trailer: “… if you’re a cis white dude.”

    Goddamn this movie.

    This movie can go get fucked.