Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

There was a physical speaker built into the cases of early PCs. Later on, there were a couple leads on the motherboard where you could plug in a speaker if you wanted to, but you weren't required to. I'm not sure those leads even exist anymore, at least not on a lot of motherboards.

[wes4dbt]

I'm old school, I still use this for my Beeps.

[Shaggy Hiker]

As I got older, the scenes of the roadrunner being stopped cold by putting out birdseed, started to bother me more and more. There was even a GEICO add where the gecko met the road runner. A real road runner would LOVE to meet a gecko. It wouldn't be so interested in seeds, though.

[wes4dbt]

As I got older, the scenes of the roadrunner being stopped cold by putting out birdseed, started to bother me more and more

Considering all the absurdity and violence in that cartoon, why that??? It wasn't my favorite cartoon, I prefer ones with dialog.

[dday9]

I used to love Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. I watched a ton of Looney Toons growing up and it was the "filler" between Bugs Bunney episodes. It was the perfect segway in my opinion.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, Segways are pretty stupid, so perfect is a low bar.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The roadrunner annoyed me because it was clearly, "the road runner is a bird, therefore it eats birdseed." They don't.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Also, there WAS dialog. The was both, "Beep" AND "Beep".

[Shaggy Hiker]

Of course, there was more dialogue when Bugs filled in for the road runner.

"Are you in genius?"

[wes4dbt]

I used to love Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. I watched a ton of Looney Toons growing up and it was the "filler" between Bugs Bunney episodes. It was the perfect segway in my opinion.

I still watch them. But in much smaller doses.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Youtube snippets?

[wes4dbt]

No, TV. Boomerang channel.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Do you find you keep returning to that channel?

[wes4dbt]

Do you find you keep returning to that channel?

Yes, but I'm a channel surfer, I return to every channel. lol

[dday9]

Jeeze, what an absolutely brilliant pun. This is a case in favor of reputation in chit-chat, just saying.

[Shaggy Hiker]

"Surfer" is just "suffer" for those who r out of f to give.

[dday9]

mind. blown.

[Zvoni]

Right....
First ever "deployment" into "unchartered territory" for me, today

Looks seriously ridiculous.....

[dday9]

I must have missed something big while I was away. Why do you look like you're about to service a nuclear reactor?

[Zvoni]

I must have missed something big while I was away. Why do you look like you're about to service a nuclear reactor?

Because our Crew-Chief for the Cleanroom went nuclear because their tablets didn't work

[dday9]

Speaking of nuclear, I only just found out that mushrooms are growing in Chernobyl towards the nuclear reactor!

Nature is a beast.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They were probably brought in on the wind: A mushroom cloud, so to speak.

[Shaggy Hiker]

At one point, I found mushrooms growing out of the carpet in the legislative office building in the New Hampshire statehouse. I assume the floor under the carpet was concrete, rather than some rich organic material, so where those mushrooms were getting nutrients from was beyond me, but these were not small mushrooms.

Of course, that also meant there was a leak of long standing.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Right....
First ever "deployment" into "unchartered territory" for me, today

Looks seriously ridiculous.....

I'm a bit surprised at that. The face covering appears to be a simple, if extensive, mask. So, they are catching MOST shed hair and skin cells, aside from the face, but it sure seems like they could have gone just a bit further by incorporating the mask into the hood such that all breath would have had to go through a more secure filter, and any face skin wouldn't be an issue. Perhaps not a full on respirator mask, but it still seems like they went 90% of the way and then said, "ah, whatever. Good enough!"

[Zvoni]

I'm a bit surprised at that. The face covering appears to be a simple, if extensive, mask. So, they are catching MOST shed hair and skin cells, aside from the face, but it sure seems like they could have gone just a bit further by incorporating the mask into the hood such that all breath would have had to go through a more secure filter, and any face skin wouldn't be an issue. Perhaps not a full on respirator mask, but it still seems like they went 90% of the way and then said, "ah, whatever. Good enough!"

Well, IT IS an ISO Class 6 Cleanroom, so we have "cleaner" air than NASA....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanroom

The lower the "Class Number" the cleaner the air, meaning: ISO Class 1 --> vacuum in outer space

[Shaggy Hiker]

In that case, I know some people who have ISO Class I brains.

[Zvoni]

In that case, I know some people who have ISO Class I brains.

D. Trump, among others?

[wes4dbt]

Is it just me or this site struggling today. I've gotten several 504's

[Shaggy Hiker]

There are several tens of thousands of users, and there has been all day. That seems a bit high. It doesn't count as a denial of service, since we can generally still get on, but how about an Annoyance of Service?

[Shaggy Hiker]

At the moment, there are over 53,000 users, which is a bit less than what was here a couple hours ago.

[dday9]

I haven't been getting the 504's, but I have noticed that the site has been considerably slow.

[TysonLPrice]

I've never posted in this thread. I looked at the first post out of curiosity. This is it:

This is one for all you constantly bored people.

The highest number of replies I have so far seen to a post is 300 ish. Anybody fancy trying to hit 1000?

Come On, You Know You Want To!

The count is 69,510...way past 1000

[Shaggy Hiker]

We're over achievers.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I assume that the slowdown is due to the massive number of users, but I don't normally pay any attention to the number of users, so it may not be massive.

[wes4dbt]

It says the most users ever was 59,604 and that was today. I wonder what's going on. Bot's???

Edit: It's now 59,645 lol

[Peter Porter]

Whatever it is, it went away for a bit about half hour ago, bringing users down to about 2,500. But it's now climbing again at a rate of 100 users per second and is currently over 56,000.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They're trying to take over the post race.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They will not succeed.

[wes4dbt]

Always remember, it's not what you say, it's how you say it.

Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn.

It blew up. lol

[Zvoni]

They will not succeed.

Resistance is futile