Breakfast At Ralf's
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hello may we please see the frog or perhaps the website? (if you don’t want to share that’s totally okay) thank you for the story!!
Alas, this occurred in 1995 and the company is long gone.
The demo was actually conducted using his laptop browser opening his site off-line; no webserver involved. Just a collection of pages stored on his drive C: that frog-guy created using notepad.exe, an impressive feat at the time. Once he onboarded we let him host his frog menagerie on the corporate LAN but I don’t think we ever gave it public access.
Our project manager (also at the interview) nabbed the computer-frog instantly and I haven’t spoken with anybody from that organization since 1998, so… yeah.
If I had the froggy I’d show y'all. And yes, it’s all true.
(If you’re wondering what the heck this is about, it’s about this.)
Since the Ceramic Frog thing has regained traction and I’m getting asks, here ya go.
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+ 1 to “commissions that are the reason i wake up in the morning”.
just ahhh amazing character from the amazing story, written by an amazing person. thank you for giving me another chance to draw her!!
(via romdocitizen)
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I’m having SUCH a bad day could you please drop an image of that one dude from the Precambrian Era (you know the one)
philbert my beloved
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I don’t have anything to add. I just found this hilarious and I want to share it.
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TNG always makes a big deal of how Picard isn’t comfortable commanding a ship with children on board. Tell me Pike would not LOVE having kids on his ship.
He would probably roll in there every week like “Hey I’m making chocolate chip pancakes for the kids today” and nobody would be able to stop him.
Remember Picard’s “What the hell?! No children on the bridge!” line? Yeah Pike would tell the kid “Go get all your friends and THEN you can come on the bridge.”
Una finds him walking down the hall with a kid hanging off each leg and arms and another on his back and Pike just smiles and says “Problem, Commander?”
No really. Someone needs to write this if it hasn’t been done already. Even if it has.
Mmmmm now I want chocolate chip pancakes.
Enterprise is back at Earth for yet another refit/repair at Starbase One. Convenient timing, since an elementary school science class has won a contest, the prize being a tour of Starfleet’s flagship!
Pike, of course, is delighted. He personally takes the kids on a whirlwind tour of the ship, culminating in a Captain’s Cabin Sleepover Slumber Party at the end of the day, complete with pizza (not replicated; the kids help make it of course).
Unbeknownst to all, evil bad guy terrorists have snuck aboard Enterprise as part of the refit engineering crew. Their plan is to hijack the ship and fly it to a waiting cloaked Romulan ship in another star system for a big payday.
But these losers are no match for Pike and his elementary class of science nerd students who Home Alone a number of inventive booby traps and stop the hijackers.
(via seananmcguire)
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friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:
- change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you’re going to get blocked bcs people think you’re a bot
- this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
- you can set your likes and follows to private
- checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
- follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
- drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
- DON’T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won’t be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won’t get in trouble!!
- tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
- be nice to the reddit refugees, they’re our friends <3
(via maximusralf)
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dont act so high and mighty over twitter we literally have a post limit here
It’s different here because we can only post so much but we can continue to scroll and interact with posts. On Twitter they have a limit on viewing posts. Once you read a certain amount for the day you are done.
And because of the idiotic way the limit was implemented, a typical twitter user will burn through their allotment of tweets in minutes.
See, every tweet viewed counts against your limit. The tweets above and below the one you wanted to read, ‘recommended’ tweets their algorithm wants to show you, the invisible tweets just offscreen ready to be scrolled into view that were pre-fetched for performance that you might never get to see if you close the app or do a search or otherwise change context.
Tweets you’ve already seen! Scroll back to re-read a tweet? That counts. Literally doing anything on the app or webpage hammers their servers with data requests that count against your limit.
Even if you paid for verification.
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The first organized civil rights sit-in occurred in 1942 when twenty-eight members of the recently formed Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) entered the Jack Spratt Coffee House, a luncheonette in the Southside of Chicago, to challenge its whites-only policy.
“An elderly couple dining in one booth inquired what was going on,” recalled Civil Rights activist James Farmer. “When informed by one of our people in the next booth, they discussed it between themselves and then passed the word to us that they agreed with us and would eat no more of their food until all of us were served. And they would not leave until we left. This evoked a silent applause from neighboring booths. Other customers, not in our groups had stopped eating, too.”
The action led to a change in policy and Jack Spratt started admitting African-Americans for the very first time.
(via oldshowbiz)
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y’all literally do not know how much it means that they showed ballister and ambrosius love and romance even more than it was shown in the graphic novel. i tweeted Nate a long time ago and asked if the two had been together in the end of the novel, years and years ago. he had said yes, but that he wished he had made it more well known and showed more of them. Nate finally got to do that with this movie. i’m so proud of him and his work and so glad i got to see the couple that helped me realize who i was shown even more clearly.
(via speedygal)
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Your teachers always warned you to never, under any circumstances, cast a resurrection spell on someone still alive, but refused to elaborate why. Today your curiosity got the better of you.
Oh, that’s interesting. Aside from outing secret undead people, what would it do? I suppose it depends on how the resurrection spell works.
My vote is it heals anything remotely wrong with the body (by the standards of the person whose body it is, or possibly by the standards of the person casting the spell), and then it also pulls in the closest spirit at hand. Because it assumes that the dead person wants back in.
So hey, have a surprise healing and a new roommate in your head! Depending on the details, you may also look very different from the way you’ve always lived.
What if all that, but also: the ‘resurrected’ person enters an enhanced state of life called Alive+ which is exactly like having double their health bar. They’re basically immortal! Can shrug off excessive damage and walk away from what would kill a normal human.
Magic users are warned against this because Alive+ immortals are so annoying and dangerous. It’s how you create problems for society.
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GO FURRIES GOOOOOO!!!! YOU MARVELOUS BEASTS!
(via kaleidoscopicskunk)
