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JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

Thanks G.  That really surprised me.  

Me too.  But it’s very cool!

lousubcap

Did not think the below fit anywhere on the main-frame but this is classic-
Quentin Tarantino and the original Top Gun- F'ing genius-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1LXL6OOsM

Botch

I've needed many of these brilliant solutions for most of my adult life.  Sigh.
 

 

dmchicago

HeavyG

dmchicago said:

Unfortunately for them, they were sentenced to consecutive life terms.

Botch

So that's why they do that.  

dbCooper

Botch

I'm sad there were no apples.  

fishlessman

posted yesterday on short beers with adding salt, and old bar thing with **** beer. today i google it and find people are drinking great beers and adding flavored beer salt. lemon, lime, and pickle flavored beer salt. i really hope this is just a texas thing and not done were great beer is brewed

fishlessman

this place is so much friendlier when the destroyer of forums is on vaca.......

Legume

fishlessman said:

posted yesterday on short beers with adding salt, and old bar thing with **** beer. today i google it and find people are drinking great beers and adding flavored beer salt. lemon, lime, and pickle flavored beer salt. i really hope this is just a texas thing and not done were great beer is brewed

 No bueno for craft beers, but great for a Tecate or Modelo on a hot day.

fishlessman

from what i remember back in the 80's in the old dive bars, just miller or bud and the sort glasses were made for pounding the salted beer cold. would be miserable drinking miller from a 16 ounce or bigger with salt.  what i saw with the search was drinking ipas with flavored salt though

Legume

That would be nasty, I would think.

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

this place is so much friendlier when the destroyer of forums is on vaca.......

fishlessman

does carey have one of these ..........................yet

Botch

Google Maps tricks.  (and a disclaimer, I'm an Apple user)  Did you know that GM can:
 
- measure distances between two points, via driving (yes you knew that), river travel, bike paths, walking distance, or as-the-crow-flies (useful for calculating rocket propellant amounts)?  
- measure the square footage of your backyard, or square footage of your roof for a replacement estimate?
- go to a 360˚street view in front of your house, every other year, back until 2009?  (anxious to try this on my desktop)
- integrate between your calendar, alerts, and GM so that it checks the traffic between where you are, and where your 10:00 appt is, and warn you with enough time to make it?  (the Apple ecosystem also does this, but in my experience, always (always) sends me to the wrong place)
- RideShare cost estimates between points?
- Sharing your location with others and sending them directions (again, on Apple, it'll send them to the wrong place but may be handy if you're going thru a divorce)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGBmqfo9Fl0
 

lousubcap

A blond is driving down the road out in farm country and looks over and sees another blonde out in a boat rowing away, going nowhere, in the middle of a plowed field. She slams on the brakes, skidding to a smoky stop in the middle of the road and jumps out of her car. 

She goes over to the side of the road and starts screaming at the blond in the boat and says..." You are the reason all blondes get a bad name.  Look at you out there in the middle of a field rowing a boat.  How stupid can you possibly be?

And if I could swim I'd come out there and kick your a$$!"

JohnInCarolina

Why do they call it "golf" ?

Because "f u c k" was taken.  

Ybabpmuts

You hear about the guy with five penis' ?

His pants fit like a glove 

Gulfcoastguy

A brunette was jumping up and down on a railroad track saying “49,49”. The blonde says “I can do that “ and jumps on the track facing the brunette jumping and saying 49, 49. This continues for a few minutes and the brunette steps off of the track. Splat goes the train. The brunette steps back on the track, resumes jumping and saying “50, 50”.

Ozzie_Isaac

Ybabpmuts said:

You hear about the guy with five penis' ?

His pants fit like a glove 

I have never seen a 7 fingered glove.

Ybabpmuts

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Ybabpmuts said:

You hear about the guy with five penis' ?

His pants fit like a glove 

I have never seen a 7 fingered glove.

You bring this up NOW? I have two tickets to Dark Mask and I already dug two holes through a fake popcorn bucket for my lap. You act like we haven't done the buttered popcorn thing before. What gives. If it's the greasy underpants I can reimburse for that. I have money ...  Jeesh... 

Botch

One of the vloggers I follow just mentioned a new feature that's coming to both Mac OS and iOS:  the ability to bypass that irritating Google thing to prove to GoogleBots that you're indeed, not a robot; the CAPTCHA system.

 

 

There will be a new switch in the Preferences (which will also be renamed but I can't remember what it will be called) to allow your device to bypass having to use that damn thing, and just use your devices' biometric (face recognition, fingerprint ID, or Apple Watch proximity) to prove to Google you ain't a robot.  That will be nice!  Also, I learned what "Captcha" actually stands for:

nolaegghead

 

JohnInCarolina

You can blame the whole CAPTCHA thing on this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

You'll note that he is also a Duke grad, lol. 

He's actually done some really good stuff since.  He's the main person behind DuoLingo.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

You can blame the whole CAPTCHA thing on this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

You'll note that he is also a Duke grad, lol. 

He's actually done some really good stuff since.  He's the main person behind DuoLingo.  

CAPTCHA was used by google to decipher words its automated system had trouble with while transcribing books.  That is why they had multiple words you had to do.  First word showed how accurate you were (a known word) second word was the one Google couldn't decipher.  Or something along those lines, I forget exact number of words and which one was unknown.  They basically crowdsourced digitizing books.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

dmchicago

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

You can blame the whole CAPTCHA thing on this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

You'll note that he is also a Duke grad, lol. 

He's actually done some really good stuff since.  He's the main person behind DuoLingo.  

CAPTCHA was used by google to decipher words its automated system had trouble with while transcribing books.  That is why they had multiple words you had to do.  First word showed how accurate you were (a known word) second word was the one Google couldn't decipher.  Or something along those lines, I forget exact number of words and which one was unknown.  They basically crowdsourced digitizing books.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

I’ve e heard this story before. Therefore, it must be true. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Ozzie_Isaac

dmchicago said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

You can blame the whole CAPTCHA thing on this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

You'll note that he is also a Duke grad, lol. 

He's actually done some really good stuff since.  He's the main person behind DuoLingo.  

CAPTCHA was used by google to decipher words its automated system had trouble with while transcribing books.  That is why they had multiple words you had to do.  First word showed how accurate you were (a known word) second word was the one Google couldn't decipher.  Or something along those lines, I forget exact number of words and which one was unknown.  They basically crowdsourced digitizing books.  Pretty cool if you ask me.

I’ve e heard this story before. Therefore, it must be true. 

Looks like I was wrong about google using it, but not the service:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2007/09/16/recaptcha-using-captchas-to-digitize-books/amp/

Acn