isomeme

isomeme, 3 days ago to HashtagGames

"The Mallard"
(not) William Blake

Mallard! Mallard! In the pond
Of my bread-crumbs overfond
I beseech thee; who the fuck
Would ever choose to make a duck?

What kind of creative hack
Would build a bird whose song is "quack"?!
Was He having an off day?
Did He just really like paté?

Mallard! Mallard! In the pond
Of my bread-crumbs overfond
I beseech thee; who the fuck
Would ever choose to make a duck?

#DonaldDuckASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

isomeme, 3 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

isomeme, 3 days ago to aiart

I asked #DALL·E for a spaghetti recipe in the style of a William Blake engraving. I was surprised but not displeased that the recipe appears to be written in a Quenya-Klingon hybrid language.

#AIArt #WilliamBlake #Humor

isomeme, 10 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

isomeme, 10 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to MusicTheory

Conversation over dinner this evening:

Me: The best way to end any song is with a Picardy third.
Partner: What if you're in a major key?
Me' ...Then you just sing "BITCHES!!!" really loud over the last chord.

I wonder what other couples talk about? 🎵🙂💜

#MusicTheory #Composition #Musician #Music #Humor

isomeme, 13 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Humor

Great moments in software engineering

Arrakis, 10,193 CE: Paul Muad'Dib Atreides uses his abilities as the Kwisatz Haderach, "he who can pwn many servers at once", to run a large worm program on the Imperial Regional Utilization Local Area Network (IruLAN), enabling a privilege-escalation exploit which gives him root access to Imperial IT. The Bene Gesserit managers are furious; the Mentat sysadmins secretly admire Paul's hack.

#GMISE #Humor #SoftwareEngineering #Midjourney #AIArt

isomeme, 2 months ago to music

@redfern ,I think this may be the instrument you were born to play.

#Music #Oud

https://youtu.be/_VebvGTngKw?si=JACuP7UItvGDdKmV

isomeme, 2 months ago to random

I just had a clear vision of how I would have reacted if, when I was 11 years old, I found out that 50 years later I would be holding a supercomputer linked to all human knowledge in my hand, and using it to share my bemusement that many of the science news sources I follow are finding it necessary to declare that all their articles are written by human authors.

We may be on our way to a hellish dystopia, but WOW, what a ride!! 🙃

isomeme, 2 months ago to wordle

This is what frustration looks like. 😕

#Wordle 1,006 X/6*

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isomeme, 2 months ago to midjourney

Here's what you get if you cross a photo of my Los Angeles apartment building with the #Midjourney prompt "Imladris, Rivendell, home of Elrond". I'm rather surprised that palm trees aren't mentioned in #Tolkien's otherwise thorough descriptions of the place. 🙂

#AIArt

isomeme, 2 months ago to Humor

Great moments in software engineering

Rome, March 15, 44 BCE: Julius Caesar's colleague Brutus convinces him to install the v8.2-dev-nightly version of the IntelliJ integrated development environment to take advantage of the newly added SQL to SPQR converter. That afternoon, a crash in the middle of his demo to the Senate causes him to groan "8.2, Brute?". This incident gives rise to the aphorism "Beware the IDEs of March".

#GMISE #Humor #SoftwareEngineering #Midjourney #AIArt

isomeme, 3 months ago to inspirobot

Words to live by. 🙃

#Inspirobot #Meme #Humor

batkaren, 3 months ago to random

“And the award for loudest chasm goes to… HOWLING VOID!”

HOWLING VOID: [howls]

The camera pans to Shrieking Abyss, just fucking glaring.

cassolotl, 3 months ago to random

If you use a screen reader and have a Github account, consider commenting on this feature request:

"Add a way to filter posts that contain images with no alt text"
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29496

If you don't use a screen reader, please boost this post rather than commenting on the Github issue.

AnarchoCatgirlism, 3 months ago to Astronomy

Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.

Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.

During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.

Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1

In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2

Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.

And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3

The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4
#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust