The worst password idea I ever had was to actually write a script to generate 256 random characters, including special characters, to use for my WiFi password. I didn't realize that in the near future, I would have devices that needed WiFi but couldn't accept a cut and paste of the password because they had no USB ports or GUI that would allow it.
Manually entering WiFi passwords on "Smart TVs" and other devices sucks by the way.
Is there a name for the entire class of nonsensical debates like "is a thumb a finger?" or "is [x] a sandwich?", and if so what do we call those? (besides pointless and annoying) #RandomThoughts
It seems contradictory to me that at many schools, you can get a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of science in the same field. Which is it? Is the field an art or science? #RandomThoughts#Linguistics#Academia
@JeremyMallin You can take different approaches to the same subject area. Speaking for my own area of Computer Science, a Bachelor of Arts would probably mean the student's learning was focused more on the practice of programming, using the word "Art" broadly to mean anything created. If they get a Bachelor of Science, it indicates a more theoretical approach. In general, practitioner vs. researcher.
Our thumbs moving across screens. Day in. Day out. Our energy devoted to serving the machines and their overlords. Reality itself being distorted by virtual, augmented and generated alternatives.
The overlords don't even have to hide their ambitions anymore. Whatever they speak is gospel.
The Matrix was not a warning of a future to come where we are hooked up to machines, emptied of our energy to serve the desired immortality of our own oppressors.
It's fascinating to me that giving someone a "beat down" is the same thing as "beating them up". It implies that beating exists in some sort of non Euclidean space that folds in on itself.
Idea: A service that supplies people to sit with rich people in their home theaters and hog their arm rests, talk during the movie, and place and receive phone calls on their mobile devices during the movie. #RandomThoughts
@JeremyMallin I had a home theater in my house I lived in back in middle school and 9th grade. We had a little platform and 2 couches. I’d use it to watch the same movie over and over again. And yet no one knew this was a sign of autism. It was next to my bedroom so loud AF when I was trying to hang out alone in my room. Very overloading.
@ashleyspencer We didn't have a dedicated home theater, but I used to do that with the VCR and also during the periods of time we had cable TV premium channels.
I kind of miss sometimes how in the old place, random celebrities would sometimes pop up in my mentions (even some of the ones I didn't know were celebrities and had to look up) 🤪 #RandomThoughts
I often have a very different idea of who is a celebrity than most people have.
Examples: that physicist whose books I've read, the managing editor of that scientific journal I've heard of, that one (more than one actually) stand-up comedian that no one has ever heard of, that obscure author whose books I love, et al.