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Journal by hendrikboom
Shows how immersed I am in the SoylentNews culture.
Got some email spam today with the title
Portable AC Taking the Country By Storm
Wondered how the anonymous coward was taking the country by storm.
Took me a while to realize it was talking about air conditioning.
-- hendrik
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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 31 2020, @12:49PM
After Coupon
https://slickdeals.net/ [slickdeals.net]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Friday July 31 2020, @01:00PM (3 children)
And this is the only thing I thought was significant enough to post as a journal article in many years of Soylent News participation?
Is this a pathetic response to social isolation or what?
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 31 2020, @02:27PM (1 child)
Acknowledging Consternation
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @06:54PM
Alternative Collaboration
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday July 31 2020, @05:02PM
Every journey begins with a single step.
...
Confucius also said: man who goes to bed with itchy hiney wakes up with stinky finger.
So yeah, isolation is making us all a bit punchy.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday July 31 2020, @02:56PM (3 children)
That kind of thing happens to everyone at some point. Whether it's due to cultural association, work, or what have you. Acronyms are ambiguous. Which is why you should always spell it out the first time, preferably with the acronym in parentheses after, when writing about something.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Friday July 31 2020, @03:19PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @03:41PM
What does WWI have to do with DATiLTs?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday July 31 2020, @06:36PM
WDTCCTR?
TGTTOS.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday July 31 2020, @07:49PM (6 children)
SNAFU is the one most people misunderstand. They think it means "mistake" when it really means precisely the opposite
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday August 01 2020, @11:15PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Sunday August 02 2020, @05:11AM
In the military, things were often SNAFU. Many times things would be FUBAR. At the worst times things were SNAFUBAR. And you knew you would have one of those special days when the day of the week ended in the letter "y."
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 03 2020, @05:59PM (3 children)
When you mention AC next to DC, you would have Thomas Edison spining in his grave. Even worse when you put AC before DC!
(If Thomas Edison were spinning in his grave, would it generate an AC current?)
While Republicans can get over Trump's sexual assaults, affairs, and vulgarity; they cannot get over Obama being black.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday August 03 2020, @06:25PM
I usually think of nachos [boltdns.net]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:21AM (1 child)
Only if Edison was a magnet or electret.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:56PM
So in other words, only if he had the covid-19 vaccine, which makes people magnetic. (and has microchips)
While Republicans can get over Trump's sexual assaults, affairs, and vulgarity; they cannot get over Obama being black.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2020, @09:08PM
Portable and personal AC is bad in most instances. This guy does a good explanation of why:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBeYC2KGc [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2horH-IeurA [youtube.com]