Gene, My answer on eating the new chicken was no way only because I am a vegetarian. I may come to be convinced that this is not chicken and therefore not “animal.” But it has been too long.
With the help of a dram of Scotland's finest, I now have been more or less able to decode your cryptic messages (July 19 Pool) about rescheduling the Invitational and a delay in setting out the new one. The hoped for increased clarity from a second dram unfortunately was not forthcoming. Thus, as best as I can determine, you have decided to drop the page borrowed from Trump's fundraising handbook in begging people to pay to lose and instead have sold the naming rights to the venerable competition for 27 pieces of silver. Despite conjecture from reliably self-informed sources --- still unknown is to whom. Word is circulating in the darker corners of the internet that it may become the "Elon Musk is Really a Stable Genius Invitational," in an effort by his Ministry of Propaganda to counter what it is calling a campaign to make him more of a laughingstock for simply exercising his kindly, fatherly prerogative by rebranding Twitter as "X" --- obviously his son X Æ A-12's nickname. Also suggested is the "Little Pill with a Big Story to Tell Invitational."
Gene, do you want a really special group to write about? It was called "Askville" in the past and was a very little known Amazon service to answer questions. A few of us who thought we could answer them got together and argued and fussed and even answered a few questions some fifteen to 20 years ago. Now a few of us are left chatting on Facebook. We always thought Jeff was involved, and when he closed us down we all got gift certificates (about $50) which I really appreciated. But my friends that remain are priceless.
The US now joins Singapore as only the second country to approve cultured meat and chicken in particular. The link shows the lab-grown nuggets which became available in Singapore earlier this year. When it comes to religious dietary restrictions, the present leading opinions are, if the source materials are halal or kosher, the cultivated product will be as well. As for Hinduism, assuming the cells used are not created or harvested by killing an animal, the resulting cultivated meat would likely be acceptable to many non-vegetarian Hindus --- with the exception of beef of course. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0BA/production/_115762616_55155741.jpg.webp
Re: the chicken: Awaiting the ruling from my Rabbi.
Re: the story: When I purchased my first 2-in-1 laptop (which, at the time, was known as a Yoga), I was unhappy with my general experience with it. It was heavier than I expected, had less battery life than I expected, and I never ended up using the 2-in-1 feature. (It seemed like something fun and productive but turned out to be neither.)
After about ten months of vaguely unhappy usage, though, the last straw was that the thing randomly refused to turn on. It didn't matter if it was in sleep, hibernate or off - every once in a while, the power button (or any button in the case of sleep) ignored me.
I brought it to a local technician (this being not the same country that it was purchased in, Lenovo refused to give me the time of day), and he asks me, "Are you going to buy a new one or keep using this one?" He explained that if I intended to keep using it, he would give me the frequent customer discount because "I would be in and out every few weeks." He pointed to, I kid you not, a stack of abandoned Yogas and Flexs (the budget version) left by customers who had given up. Then he showed me the lengthy discussion regarding this fault by technicians everywhere, accompanied by proverbial shrugs from Lenovo, who had no idea how to fix this.
Needless to say, I had a new computer soon after.
Anyways, fast forward about eight years and I became friends with a guy who works for Intel (he ran their wifi coding department for a number of years) and I mentioned this experience. "You know," he says thoughtfully, "that may have been our problem. If you bring in your laptop, maybe I can get it fixed."
The laptop had since traveled to the great beyond, so I never found out if he was right.
And $5 is really $4.15 or does a year have ten months? I pay and like to pay even when my budget is much smaller than my taste. But I am a whiz at arithmetic and primary math.
As for your writer these many moons ago concerned about the danger of the microwave, I can say from personal experience that those in all too many offices are unquestionably public health hazards. "Some Salmonella with that cup-o-noodles ?"
Gene, what qualifies as "new technology"? Do you mean a technology that was novel at the time you encountered it, no matter how long ago that time has been?
How I discovered myself always makes for good reading. And then there's the agony and the ecstasy of training wheels. Or, depending on one's age --- the wheel and indoor plumbing,
I've noticed error messages and similar have gotten much more shrill and abusive recently, like Google Forms telling me I should be ashamed of my last Invitational submission. Or, "You've tried the same thing three times. You know what they say about insanity. Try again -- oh, let's see --- how about next month --- or never ? !" Also often get something frighteningly HAL-like: "I'm sorry Dale. I'm afraid I can't do that."
I got my first iPhone four years ago and found the calculator (in the control panel) to be simplistic and cheesy. About six months ago, I was using it and for some reason, rotated the phone 90°. Voila, a real calculator. I sleep much better now knowing I can find pi to 15 decimal places any time I want.
Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language > Language. Under Preferred languages, select the language that contains the keyboard you want, and then select Options.
Yes - this happened to me with my Mac but with Chinese! Extremely frustrating. You try all these solutions suggested by Apple support or others. And of course, right now I can’t remember what fixed it!
Having now been able to consider your Mac language problem for all of 30 seconds, I've come up with this: you're out of luck. Tim Cook hates you. Always has. Had you been near your computer several nights ago, chances are you would have heard a muffled, metallic-sounding voice saying something like, "Yes, Mr. Cook. Certainly Mr. Cook. Right away, Mr. Cook." Always wanted to learn Urdu ? That's coming next.
I answered “No way, no how” though not out of safety concerns or ethics. I have no qualms about eating chickens. The price of lab-grown chicken meat (or Cheat™ as I would call it) would have to be substantially less than traditional chicken meat for it to be worth trying which I would.
For non-meat consumers, this is another attempt to re-create a meat consumption experience which many don’t care to have. Also, strict vegans and vegetarians might still view this as “fruit of the poisoned vine” as the original cells had to be harvested from some non-consenting animal.
That reminds me of the concept of breeding an animal that wants to be eaten such as Douglas Adams’s Ameglian Major Cow.
The shmoo (plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979); the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948.
Gene, My answer on eating the new chicken was no way only because I am a vegetarian. I may come to be convinced that this is not chicken and therefore not “animal.” But it has been too long.
With the help of a dram of Scotland's finest, I now have been more or less able to decode your cryptic messages (July 19 Pool) about rescheduling the Invitational and a delay in setting out the new one. The hoped for increased clarity from a second dram unfortunately was not forthcoming. Thus, as best as I can determine, you have decided to drop the page borrowed from Trump's fundraising handbook in begging people to pay to lose and instead have sold the naming rights to the venerable competition for 27 pieces of silver. Despite conjecture from reliably self-informed sources --- still unknown is to whom. Word is circulating in the darker corners of the internet that it may become the "Elon Musk is Really a Stable Genius Invitational," in an effort by his Ministry of Propaganda to counter what it is calling a campaign to make him more of a laughingstock for simply exercising his kindly, fatherly prerogative by rebranding Twitter as "X" --- obviously his son X Æ A-12's nickname. Also suggested is the "Little Pill with a Big Story to Tell Invitational."
Gene, do you want a really special group to write about? It was called "Askville" in the past and was a very little known Amazon service to answer questions. A few of us who thought we could answer them got together and argued and fussed and even answered a few questions some fifteen to 20 years ago. Now a few of us are left chatting on Facebook. We always thought Jeff was involved, and when he closed us down we all got gift certificates (about $50) which I really appreciated. But my friends that remain are priceless.
I will look at this after today. Rimind me!
https://lifehacker.com/get-answers-from-askville-225969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askville
The US now joins Singapore as only the second country to approve cultured meat and chicken in particular. The link shows the lab-grown nuggets which became available in Singapore earlier this year. When it comes to religious dietary restrictions, the present leading opinions are, if the source materials are halal or kosher, the cultivated product will be as well. As for Hinduism, assuming the cells used are not created or harvested by killing an animal, the resulting cultivated meat would likely be acceptable to many non-vegetarian Hindus --- with the exception of beef of course. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0BA/production/_115762616_55155741.jpg.webp
Before they invented AI and now try to make it sound important, they had librarians.
Re: the chicken: Awaiting the ruling from my Rabbi.
Re: the story: When I purchased my first 2-in-1 laptop (which, at the time, was known as a Yoga), I was unhappy with my general experience with it. It was heavier than I expected, had less battery life than I expected, and I never ended up using the 2-in-1 feature. (It seemed like something fun and productive but turned out to be neither.)
After about ten months of vaguely unhappy usage, though, the last straw was that the thing randomly refused to turn on. It didn't matter if it was in sleep, hibernate or off - every once in a while, the power button (or any button in the case of sleep) ignored me.
I brought it to a local technician (this being not the same country that it was purchased in, Lenovo refused to give me the time of day), and he asks me, "Are you going to buy a new one or keep using this one?" He explained that if I intended to keep using it, he would give me the frequent customer discount because "I would be in and out every few weeks." He pointed to, I kid you not, a stack of abandoned Yogas and Flexs (the budget version) left by customers who had given up. Then he showed me the lengthy discussion regarding this fault by technicians everywhere, accompanied by proverbial shrugs from Lenovo, who had no idea how to fix this.
Needless to say, I had a new computer soon after.
Anyways, fast forward about eight years and I became friends with a guy who works for Intel (he ran their wifi coding department for a number of years) and I mentioned this experience. "You know," he says thoughtfully, "that may have been our problem. If you bring in your laptop, maybe I can get it fixed."
The laptop had since traveled to the great beyond, so I never found out if he was right.
I thought I paid for your service the first month you appeared, and it was a much lower amount. Am I remembering incorrectly?
It has always been the same. Five bucks a month, or $50 for a year, which works out to $4.15 a month, or roughly 24 cents per Gene Pool post.
And $5 is really $4.15 or does a year have ten months? I pay and like to pay even when my budget is much smaller than my taste. But I am a whiz at arithmetic and primary math.
If you buy a full year, it is $50, or, roughly, $4.15 a month. If you purchase it month-to-month, it is $5 a month, or a total of $60 for the year.
As for your writer these many moons ago concerned about the danger of the microwave, I can say from personal experience that those in all too many offices are unquestionably public health hazards. "Some Salmonella with that cup-o-noodles ?"
Gene, what qualifies as "new technology"? Do you mean a technology that was novel at the time you encountered it, no matter how long ago that time has been?
Yes, as in my first example!
How I discovered myself always makes for good reading. And then there's the agony and the ecstasy of training wheels. Or, depending on one's age --- the wheel and indoor plumbing,
A good story about encountering fire as a toddler is still a good story.
I want to let my wife read this, but do not know to add her as a reader. I am a paid subscriber. What to do?
Well, you could just forward the email, in this case, or if it's the website, open it up, login, and wave her over . . .
I've noticed error messages and similar have gotten much more shrill and abusive recently, like Google Forms telling me I should be ashamed of my last Invitational submission. Or, "You've tried the same thing three times. You know what they say about insanity. Try again -- oh, let's see --- how about next month --- or never ? !" Also often get something frighteningly HAL-like: "I'm sorry Dale. I'm afraid I can't do that."
What's really frightening me about this is that I think it may be just you...
Oh, it is. Invented, and presented as true. I just don't know how to react to something like this except to sigh.
Really ?
Yep!
A sigh is a terrible thing to waste.
... and a doughnut is a terrible thing to waist.
I got my first iPhone four years ago and found the calculator (in the control panel) to be simplistic and cheesy. About six months ago, I was using it and for some reason, rotated the phone 90°. Voila, a real calculator. I sleep much better now knowing I can find pi to 15 decimal places any time I want.
Today I learned….
Thanks!
I think about this column at least once a month. It's so cute. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/its-gene-vs-computer-at-the-apple-store/2013/05/08/646f9b94-a905-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html
Windows "settings" looks like a gear:
Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language > Language. Under Preferred languages, select the language that contains the keyboard you want, and then select Options.
Mac. I got Mac.
Yes - this happened to me with my Mac but with Chinese! Extremely frustrating. You try all these solutions suggested by Apple support or others. And of course, right now I can’t remember what fixed it!
1) Go to System Preferences (Click the Apple logo in the top-left).
2) Go to “Language & Region” and select "Keyboard Preferences.” 3) Click the "+" symbol to add the needed language. ...
4) Important: click on the "Use the Caps Lock Key to Switch to and from U.S." settings.
Press the Caps Lock key once to change languages.
Maybe Gene will see Thai come up already listed here and be able to delete it from the list.
Having now been able to consider your Mac language problem for all of 30 seconds, I've come up with this: you're out of luck. Tim Cook hates you. Always has. Had you been near your computer several nights ago, chances are you would have heard a muffled, metallic-sounding voice saying something like, "Yes, Mr. Cook. Certainly Mr. Cook. Right away, Mr. Cook." Always wanted to learn Urdu ? That's coming next.
I answered “No way, no how” though not out of safety concerns or ethics. I have no qualms about eating chickens. The price of lab-grown chicken meat (or Cheat™ as I would call it) would have to be substantially less than traditional chicken meat for it to be worth trying which I would.
For non-meat consumers, this is another attempt to re-create a meat consumption experience which many don’t care to have. Also, strict vegans and vegetarians might still view this as “fruit of the poisoned vine” as the original cells had to be harvested from some non-consenting animal.
That reminds me of the concept of breeding an animal that wants to be eaten such as Douglas Adams’s Ameglian Major Cow.
https://youtu.be/5HLy27bK-wU
Or Al Capp's critters:
The shmoo (plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979); the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948.
The schmoos! I loved them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo