Be Excellent To Each Other

Assuming that works horizontally with arrows, I fucking love you.

My 'old' Sony tv (26in non-fullhd backlit LCD that cost £450 from Costco; relatively new but old by modern standards) and blu ray player got angry with each other if they tried to turn each other on and off to the point the tv needed power cycling. Well done Sony!

You can drag tabs off Chrome (the kids call it 'tearing', I believe) to make new Chrome windows (or join them to other existing Chrome windows), but we all knew that. But did we know you can CTRL or Shifty click to select multiple tabs to tear at once?

Did this work, btw?

Am I finally loved?

No.

It was actually yesterday but that doesn't matter. I learnt that Adam Hills has a prosthetic leg as he was born without a foot.

I learnt this from his stand up that was on Amazon Prime. Very good it was too. I like Adam Hills.

That's the best computer advice I've heard in a long time.

Today I learned that the 1984 Ray Parker Jr classic movie tie-in track "Ghostbusters" has the subtitle "Searchin' for the Spirit" and now I don't know what to do with the rest of my day

Sorted. Cheers, Dim

That is superb. That he casually dropped his moon-dominion to the Pope, confusing him in the process, is even better

I've learned 2 things! TWO!



s'obvious when you think aboot it but still like woahhhh sick diggy doktah.

How come you can blow out a match or a candle but if you blow on a fire it burns more?

Maek u think

dude.......wack...

So Princess Diana had no shadow.

In the wind.

Cos you can't blow hard enoug, I should think.

I think that’s basically it. Oxygen feeds fire, but you blow so hard on a match or candle that you essentially blow the flame away and apart from its material source of fuel.

Which is why you can use explosives to put out fires.

You just have to be careful not to set up more, bigger fires in the process.

Or, OR...

Somebody throw him a fish.

I think you meant to say, “throw him a Mr Chris”

If you throw a grenade on a flame and then jump on the grenade, will the fire go out?

Only if it's on a treadmill.

What if the treadmill is on a truck going down the road at 40mph and you jump straight up? Does the flame travel backwards?

If I remember rightly, you’d actually need a hot fire to make the grenade explode (assuming it’s a typical grenade like, say, M67 which the US use). I can’t remember how hot, but like 400 degrees or some shit.

You need only one hot ginger man and a pulled pin

Babestation flashbacks...

*tilts head slightly*

Yeah, my first thought was MetalAngel

Today I learned that guac and chips can have a detrimental effect on my digestive tract for at least two days.

I would consider myself very keyboard shortcut-literate but somehow I've only found out today that Ctrl + Backspace deletes an entire word instead of an individual character.

I'll probably stuck to using my own solution (hold Ctrl+Shift, tap left or right cursor arrow to select entire words, then Backspace) because it's generally hard-wired now and useful in more situations, but I'm still surprised I'd never come across this before.

Because you don't make mistakes

Meh. I didn't know that one either, though it DOES make sense.

I love KB shortcuts. I used to challenge the other IT manager I worked with in Her Majesty's Civil Service, to races to complete a give task, with me using shortcuts and she using her mouse. Didn't take long to persuade her that shortcuts were the better solution for lots of common tasks.

Ctrl + Delete deletes a whole word too, but in the other direction (you know what I mean).

Ctrl +left/right moves the cursor by a word instead of space

Pft. Everyone knows THAT.

One that I found very difficult was LAlt+LShift+RShift+Esc that brings you to the debugger on a NetWare server. You really need three hands to do it.

Well I never

The name TASER comes from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a 1911 science fiction novel by Victor Appleton that imagined an electric gun. The device from the book was the inspiration for the real-life TASER.

An SR-71 does 0.3 mpg

Really? That's really good.

And that was a super special blend of her fuel too, wasn't it?

With a range of 3355 miles, so must have tanks to take 1183.3 gallons of fuel. Brings a whole new meaning to gas guzzling money pit.

That's around 4.5 tonnes of fuel.

Enough to fill nearly 74 large car tanks.

A few days ago I learned that the track pad on my Macbook Air DOES have tap-to-click, it just isn't enabled by default.

I learned the other day, that apparently the only thing we eat that has never been alive is salt

That can't include every food additive, can it?