Theophile Escargot

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Theophile Escargot2d ago
Yoda. Real English he speaks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42YrsnxIqgg
Translating Yoda:
https://travod.com/blog/wisdom-creativity-translating-yoda-worldwide
#StarWars
Does Yoda speak real English? The linguistics of Yodish explained

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Theophile Escargot2d ago
Existential Comics2d ago
Despair Factory -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/657
Despair Factory

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Theophile Escargot3d ago
Recently watched the amazing Star Trek TOS episode "Balance of Terror". Absolute classic. I also like that to find a comet to trap the Romulan ship they had a black leatherbound book "Table of Comets"
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Table_of_Comets
Table of Comets

The Table of Comets: Galaxy Quadrant YX-12-114 was a reference book used aboard the USS Enterprise. A copy of this book was in the briefing room during the 2266 Neutral Zone Incursion. James T. Kirk wanted to refer to it in order to learn more about the composition of the comet Icarus IV. Spock, however, held the book back, stating that the comet was "quite ordinary", and continued to explain the comet's composition from memory without the benefit of the book. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")

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Theophile Escargot4d ago
Existential Comics4d ago

I've been microdosing "thinking" lately. Every hour for one minute I "use my brain to think about stuff.".

I believe this will put me at a competitive edge over 99.6% of the human population, if my calculations are correct.

Theophile EscargotMay 27
#Running expert Steve Magness. The Enhanced Games: Doping Folly Unmasked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzoUKn08UIA How they dropped millions of dollars on performances you could have seen at a high school meet.
The Enhanced Games: Doping Folly Unmasked

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Theophile EscargotMay 22
Learned a new word, a medieval insult: CUMBERWORLD. Someone who encumbers the world merely by existing. https://wordsmith.org/words/cumberworld.html
cumberworld

noun: A useless person.

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Theophile EscargotMay 19
Someone on this Teams call looks worryingly like M3gan.
Theophile EscargotMay 19
ahistorical immaterialistMay 19
Astounding video about Lippmann plates, and early colour photography technique that encodes colour as a diffraction pattern in crystals, almost like a hologram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DyrBDsKA5s
You've Never Seen a Real Photo

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Theophile EscargotMay 15
I've read the Iliad, so how did I forget that Achilles had a talking horse called Xanthus who warns him of his imminent death? https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Iliad19.php#anchor_Toc239246279
Homer (c.750 BC) - The Iliad: Book XIX

Homer - The Iliad: Book XIX of a new complete English translation with hyper-linked index

Theophile EscargotMay 15
Spent hours failing to resolve a weird error. Eventually created a new branch & workspace and moved my changes into it file by file looking for when the error would start. Eventually all my changes went in, it worked fine with no error, no idea why. Feeling helpless and stupid.