Sudy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:40 am
I don't think it's unimpressive, though I do think it would have been a reasonable result of thinking it through. Webcams weren't mainstream for at least a few years after that, but a googling suggests they were in production by 1994.
It was around 1994, a friend of a friend had a camera in his fridge pointed at a thermometer, broadcast publicly over the Internet entitled "What temperature is my Pepsi" and I was blown away by the tech. Netscape was truly a wonderful vehicle for discovering just about everything. That same friend was telling me about this online bookseller I needed to checkout. They really were doing the online market price right and I needed to get away from the university bookstore and look for my books on Amazon.
Sudy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 9:40 am
I don't think it's unimpressive, though I do think it would have been a reasonable result of thinking it through. Webcams weren't mainstream for at least a few years after that, but a googling suggests they were in production by 1994.
It was around 1994, a friend of a friend had a camera in his fridge pointed at a thermometer, broadcast publicly over the Internet entitled "What temperature is my Pepsi" and I was blown away by the tech. Netscape was truly a wonderful vehicle for discovering just about everything. That same friend was telling me about this online bookseller I needed to checkout. They really were doing the online market price right and I needed to get away from the university bookstore and look for my books on Amazon.
...and i ended my bookselling career in 1996. The industry was already groaning under the weight of Borders and Borg&Noble, and Amazon was the death blow. The few independents left standing were forced to add cafes and do community engagement stuff, neither of which appealed to me.
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I am Dyslexic of Borg, prepare to have your ass laminated.
I guess Ray Butts has ate his last pancake. http://steamcommunity.com/id/daehawk
"Has high IQ. Refuses to apply it"
Is it real game footage? No, it’s a commercial for Gatorade sports drink:
Gatorade ended its association with the agency that created the ad, Element 79, shortly after the video was completed and shelved the campaign.
“We were not planning to release the ball girl video,” [Gatorade spokeswoman Jill] Kinney said. “However, now that it’s out there, we’re thrilled with the response it’s getting.”
Kinney said Gatorade doesn’t know who posted the video, and Element 79 said on its website that it had nothing to do with posting the video.
There is no mention of Gatorade in the video, though there is a bottle by the chair where the ball girl sits near the end of the clip. And Gatorade has clearly become associated with it, to the company’s delight.
(Although the above quote states that Gatorade “shelved” the campaign, the ball girl commercial aired during baseball’s 2008 All-Star Game.)
Guinness was probably 62 or 63 in that shot... that's not too far off.
I saw a commercial on late night TV. It said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did. And it was a load off my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, and I didn't know what the hell they were. -- Mitch Hedberg
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:59 am
How long is a Star Wars year?
How long is a year in our galaxy?
A galactic "year" -- the time it takes the sun to orbit the galactic center once -- is around 240,000,000 Earth years. This means that the dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy.
Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:03 am
A galactic "year" -- the time it takes the sun to orbit the galactic center once -- is around 240,000,000 Earth years. This means that the dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy.
I knew the galaxy slowly rotates (and will eventually collide with other galaxies) but never really contemplated the correlation in Earth years.
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Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:03 am
A galactic "year" -- the time it takes the sun to orbit the galactic center once -- is around 240,000,000 Earth years. This means that the dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy.
I knew the galaxy slowly rotates (and will eventually collide with other galaxies) but never really contemplated the correlation in Earth years.
"Slowly" is relative; the sun's booking right along at a brisk 450,000 mph.
Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:03 am
A galactic "year" -- the time it takes the sun to orbit the galactic center once -- is around 240,000,000 Earth years. This means that the dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy.
I knew the galaxy slowly rotates (and will eventually collide with other galaxies) but never really contemplated the correlation in Earth years.
"Slowly" is relative; the sun's booking right along at a brisk 450,000 mph.
Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:03 am
A galactic "year" -- the time it takes the sun to orbit the galactic center once -- is around 240,000,000 Earth years. This means that the dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy.
I knew the galaxy slowly rotates (and will eventually collide with other galaxies) but never really contemplated the correlation in Earth years.
"Slowly" is relative; the sun's booking right along at a brisk 450,000 mph.