Well I got my second bed rest this week..whooohoo... so long work!!!
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Well I got my second bed rest this week..whooohoo... so long work!!!
I want to sleep.
perchance to dream?
Being a daydreamer I would harldy notice the difference but yeah, why not?? :)
My dreams aren't fun cuz they make me think I'm awake because they're similar to real life.
Last night I dreamt I was a terrorist assasin assasinating the prez of some country, who also turned out to be me... I was two seperate unrelated characters in one dream...it was really odd, oh btw...sick to!!!
You got involved in a violent acts against yourself ? Why I'm not suprise?
If you dreamed that you're a farmer planting flowers, that would shocked me to death :D
The exams are closer and closer and the only thing I've been doing recently is larning. Pholosophy, theory of literature, English literature, English history and culture... The worst of all, however, are weird words we need to learn: marsupial, hypotenuse, shallot... Where will I use words like that?
the cooks julienned the shallots and cut the potatoes into right triangles, then on the hypotenuse (a hypotenuse cut? - lol) as the guests (who were waiting very patiently for their first course - leek potato soup) gathered at the door to see the noisy kitty outside, only to find that they were staring at a marsupial. many of course thought that it was a huge mouse, when in reality it was an opossum.
:p
Or how about a dream where Stan is a farmer planting himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
Whoa, trippy.
That's creative, very good imagination...or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shore Dude
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Originally Posted by Shore Dude
Now Stan is a commodity, planted and sold in the market..hmmm
To keep it fresh and hygenic, I recommend that it's wrapped in plastic bag.
Just come across this...
:- ) turns 20, Creator Yet to Earn a Dime
It was 20 years ago today that Scott Fahlman taught the Net ‘how to smile’. The IBM researcher has devoted his professional life to artificial intelligence, the practice of teaching computers how to think like humans.
Mr Fahlman is known for his work with neural networks – computer techniques designed to mimic the human brain – and helping to develop Common Lisp, a computer language that uses symbols instead of numbers, but perhaps is best known for a flash of inspiration that helped to define the Internet culture, in all of its ungrammatical glory.
On September 19, 1982 Mr Fahlman typed :-) in an online message. The “smiley face” has since become a staple of online communication, allowing 12-year-old girls and corporate lawyers alike to punctuate their messages with a quick symbol that says, “hey, I’m only joking”.
Mr Fahlman’s innovation has since inspired countless other symbols or what are known as ‘emoticons’ like ;-) to signify a wink or :-o to show surprise. “ I’ve certainly spent ten times as much time talking with people about it as I did coming up with it in the first place,” Mr Fahlman said from his Pittsburg home. “Hopefully my actual research career will add up to more in the long run.”
In the early ‘80s, computer networks were rarely found outside university science departments and secretive government facilities. But even then discussions on primitive online ‘bulletin boards’ could quickly turn nasty when touchy users misinterpreted remarks meant to be taken lightly.
After a particularly tangled joke about mercury contamination in an elevator, users of a Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board proposed a variety of markers for humorous comments, including *, %, &, (#) and ---/ Fahlman suggested :-) along with a warning to “read it sideways”. Before long, other bulletin board users were placing the smiley face in their messages. The practice spread as Internet users found the symbol useful as a rough approximation of a twinkle in the eye.
Predictably the smiley face encountered a few frowns as the online population exploded. “Humans have managed to communicate with the written word for thousands of years without strewing crudely fashioned ideograms across their parchments. It is as if the written word were a cutting edge technology without useful precedents,” groused Neal Stephenson in the New Republic 1993.
Mr Fahlman stands by his creation. “If Shakespeare were tossing off a quick note complaining about the lack of employee parking near the Globe Theatre he might have employed the same kind of sloppy prose that the rest of us do,” Mr Fahlman writes on his website.
Yahoo!, Microsoft, and America Online all incorporate emoticons into their instant messaging systems, while telecom firms, jewelry makers, and online retailers have filed trademark applications for products and slogans that incorporate Mr Fahlman’s smiley face.
But Mr Fahlman has never seen a dime from his creation.
*cough* *cough* an interesting idea, so people would harvest the stan plant, except health food gurus...who would only eat the stan sprout?Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean
You guys are extremly odd when your imagination gets running :D
btw, cool article Scheherazade
Well maybe Mr. Fahlman was not "smarter" enough to register his invention as a pantented product before he told everyone about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
And Stan, you gave us the idea. So the problem is on you ;).