Mostly I make JIRA tickets.
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16·3 days agoNever ever regretted being uncircumcised. In fact, I regularly feel especially grateful to my parents for not getting me circumcised. If it were socially acceptable, I’d talk to more people about it and why it’s great not being circumsized. I would get me parents a “Thanks for not mutilating me as a baby” thank you cake.
I remember this too. Isn’t it just saying “Helicopter one reporting heavy traffic.”?
Apparently it’s legit police radio chatter recorded in Los Angeles in the 1970s!
They are really hard to lassoo though.
Ok from the name I would have assumed an artist who works specifically with flat sheets of metal and a rounded hammer.
Alright then, keep your secrets!
Cable hype is in every industry. You can buy hundred-dollar gold plated “Gaming” HDMI cables that are no better than any other HDMI cord
There’s a really good book called “All the Shahs men” too which I really enjoyed
There is a “Wilhelm Scream” for TV police radio chatter. It’s a sound effect that you’ve probably heard hundreds of times without realising it. I first encountered it while playing SimCity 3000 and it has bugged me for 20 years because I couldn’t work out what was said.
Here is the soundbite and an extensive list of TV show episodes and movies where it’s been spotted:
Now, I think I cracked it last year:
Please go listen to it for a few times and write down what is being said before you read my analysis
Spoiler
“Beta, scrub for one-forty-eight-nine St Andrews; prowler heard, not seen.”
She’s saying that the Beta (backup) unit(s) should scrub (cancel) their dispatch order to 1489 St Andrews because the alpha unit no longer needs backup. The complainant has said that a prowler (someone lurking outside) was heard, but not seen. Probably the alpha unit suspects it to be a false alarm on that basis.
This is only my guess, based on listening to it 1 billion times, but it seems to fit the context of the soundbite. Why she refers to backup as “Beta” instead of the NATO phonetic “Bravo” is a bit odd, but maybe that’s just her preference, or maybe current NATO phonetic wasn’t as common in policing in the 70s
In 6 billion years the sun will swole up to engulf the earth and none of this will have ever mattered.
6·16 days agoIt’s working for me
Zombocom was and still is the only website in the world.
&TOTSE
I got there right after the facelift in the early oughts, when they switched to vBulletin.
Shortly before the last shutdown, I cloned the entire website and I host it privately just for myself for future browsing.
How did I get to the lead merchant? I was led here. But in the price negotiation, I took the lead.
5·26 days agoPretty fuckin woke, if you ask me
I used to fix POS machines and networks for retail and hospo. I didn’t wear a uniform, just a polo shirt. I could walk into server rooms, storerooms full of liquor, and open cash registers without ever announcing myself or saying who I was.
Retail and hospo workers so often DGAF who walks behind the bar.