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by Quinn · Published February 5, 2016 · Last modified May 12, 2026
Beginning a series of copy-pastes of my comments posted on Google+, since few people read G+, and the comments are usually buried so deep that even fewer people will read them, and the ones I pick are usually worth a wider audience. Like fazigu.org. Yeah. I probably have a larger audience than Google’s social network. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Anyhoo, this was one of those flash-polls on the Star Wars group. Two buttons with two logos: Disney and Lucasfilm...
Blue Angel. 1930. Before most of our parents were born. In Europe, lusty lust was not lost, but America diluted its fire water into warm milk. I’m gonna try to capture the spirit of Frederick Hollander’s lyrics made famous by Marlene Dietrich. Apologies to the dead for this poor man’s rendering of “Falling In Love Again”. Some side-wise beauty flickers, Some “je ne sais-pas-quoi”. Like fool’s gold, a glimmer, but the shine is faint and dull. And then my eyes catch yours, and then we’re face-to-face, and...
My precious daughters and I were watching an old Betty Boop cartoon (transferred from the original nitrate to 1080p) which included a sign for an electric razor priced at “6 1/2 bits”. Knowing “two bits” represents a quarter dollar, making one bit ⅛ of a dollar, I wondered if a “bit” in computer-terminology was etymologically related. They are not. The ⅛ of a byte bit is shorthand for “binary digit”– a term which won out over such competing candidates as “bigit” or...
It is very unfortunate to see how casually bad words are spouted publicly these days. This response to an answer on Quora made me viscerally angry. Is this an “I know them when I see them” sort of filter, or does this man have a list of all the “bad” words? In any case, how dare he levy such a judgment against any element of speech between sapient beings! The sanctity of free communication must be inviolable. What could he...
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