Gyroplast

Haste mal'n Wasser für mich?

Klar, ich bewahr's im Hahn auf, spart Platz.

"Read the instructions", he was told, so he read them. And then he did lead Sean to the lead pipe.

Among the lovely revival of arguing the One True Pronunciation, I personally see lay-tech as a portmanteau of "layout technology". Meaning in German discourse, it's [tɛç], and in English [tɛk]. Simple to remember, easy to derive, and matching the Gospel.

That nerd would surely pronounce his kink /ˈleɪtɛk/. Also, nobody loves \LaTeX. Unrealistic. 3/10.

Thanks, that sounds plausible enough for me. Has Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking vibes, bureaucracy would love this, so I shall accept this as fact henceforth, and indulge my confirmation bias!

When I visited the US in 2000 (yep, pre-9/11), everyone was handed a small paper form shortly before landing(!), in the plane, and I distinctly remember that checkbox asking me if I am planning any illegal or terrorist activity after entering the country.

I still do not understand its purpose. I honestly don't.

Bah, humbug! In my days we used a rubber ducky, IF WE HAD ONE, or just the stick we were beaten with for using too many precious CPU cycles, and we were FINE!

I still have a soft spot for troll physics. Needs more magnets, though.

Oh my, better watch Felidae next, that one looks cute.

This reminds me of the tale of the coder tasked to write an input validator for IPv4 addresses. Poor bastard.

Another fun one: 0177.042.017.066

PSA: Don't zero-pad your IPv4 octets. Decimal is for simpletons.

Yes. 127.0.0.0/8 is reserved IPv4 address space for Loopback. It is perfectly valid, and occasionally useful, to use other loopback addresses that are functionally identical, like 127.0.1.1 or 127.0.0.53, which carry semantic information for the initiated, like "53? Must be DNS-related, obviously!"

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