I've enjoyed writing about Picard's ready room crystal so much that I have compiled all of my research into one concise article for Ex Astris Scientia. There's even one additional observation I haven't written about here!

Please do me one favour: If you've enjoyed this as well, please DO leave a comment at the bottom of the article so Bernd and I know that turning this into an article for easy future reference was worth the while.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/ready-room-crystal.htm

None whatsoever.

#humour

On a scale from 1-10, my hatred for AI-based support is at 1000.

I use Storyblocks for stock video and I found a bug in their AI, so I sent them a chat message.

Instead of a human answering, an AI system replied, that I could submit my report to it. So I wrote a bug report to it, but then the AI replied that it was NOT capable of handling the bug report, but I could contact them by mail. So I wrote the mail… and who replies? The AI agent which already failed — now giving me a new bogus answer.

Found an interesting story about the origin of the SGI logo while reading IRIS Universe, Spring 1987 issue..

Puzzle artist Scott Kim designed the Silicon Graphics logo entirely using JAM, a pre-PostScript language from Xerox. He started with a cube, looped a continuous tube around its vertices, rounded the corners, then rotated it so the 2D projection reads as both a hexagonal flower and a 3D object.

@flexion have you seen this?

PDF:
https://ominous.net/IrisUniverse_1983_pg13.pdf

#SGI #UNIX #IRIX #IRIS