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05/22/2008 01:01:15 PM · #201 |
The early computer game Breakout was developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak... the founders of Apple Computer. Steve Jobs was assigned the task for $700, with a $100 bonus offered for every TTL chip he saved under 100. Jobs didn't actually do computer engineering, and secretly handed the development over to his genius buddy Wozniak... telling him only that they'd split $700 if he could design the game with less than 50 chips in four days (a time limit Jobs made up so he could go on a vacation). Wozniak worked on it at night over a four day marathon outside of his day job designing calculators for HP, and eliminated 50 chips. For his efforts, he got $350 (and a case of mononucleosis), while Jobs kept the other half and the $5000 bonus for himself. The design turned out to be too sophisticated for Atari to understand or manufacture, so they reproduced it using 58 more chips. Wozniak's work on Breakout later inspired him to develop the game in software (a first) and create a color monitor and 1-bit speaker for the Apple ][ computer. The game Breakout is included on Apple iPods.
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05/22/2008 01:53:07 PM · #202 |
Originally posted by redjulep:
Did you know? Palm trees are a grass left over from prehistoric times. |
Plus they don't float so don't try making a raft out of them to get off a tropical island. |
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05/22/2008 02:00:52 PM · #203 |
The female porcupine will hold one end of a stick between her paws and walk around, straddling the stick as it bumps against the ground and vibrates against her genitalia.
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05/22/2008 02:08:29 PM · #204 |
| When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. |
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05/22/2008 02:41:06 PM · #205 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by BAMartin:
Originally posted by icu1965:
Originally posted by dacrazyrn:
Real Mexicans don't eat Taco Bell |
So not true! What do you think they eat early in the morning after they've been out drinking all night? |
Phoenix is full of 24 hour taco stands, true Mexican taco stands. Food of the Gods I think. |
Absolutely... So is San Diego. But even so I saw plenty of Mexicans, or at least Chicanos, in Taco Bell. I guess we can quibble and say a Chicano/a isn't a "real Mexican"? maybe that would work :-)
As far as Food of the Gods, I couldn't agree with you more. The only thing I really miss, after moving to Cape Cod, is access to good, inexpensive Mexican cooking. We have ONE Taco Bell, 11 miles from me, and that's IT. There is NO other Mexican fast food at all, and only two Mexican restaurants I am aware of. One of them, Sam Diego's, is the worst sort of gringo-mex and I can't stand it. The other is so-so, I go there every now and then but it's not the real thing.
So I cook my own Mexican. It's really hard to find a good tortilla, and a pain to make my own, but on the whole I manage...
R. |
I used to think the same thing about Michigan, but, as more and more people have moved into the area from Mexico, there are several excellent Mexican restaurants now open and ready to feed me. There's also a Mexican supermarket in town that offers all manner of things. |
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05/22/2008 03:25:34 PM · #206 |
Originally posted by jeger:
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. |
I'm not ordinarily a big CN fan, but that's funny. :-) |
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05/23/2008 03:02:57 AM · #207 |
Originally posted by jtf6agent:
Okay so there is NO Cola (cocaine) in Coca Cola They stopped that back in the 30's I worked with the DEA and it's a VERY big myth. As far as there being 1 million ants to every person... yeah I'm going to have to say you need to revise those figures because I've wiped out at least 2 BILLION of the little F er's myself My poop floats once in a while and can't lick my elbow, my thumb is not the same size as my nose |
Small correction. I was of the illusion that coca referred to the cocaine and the cola referred to the Kola nut (giving it caffeine and I believe a good chunk of the brown color).
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05/23/2008 05:52:21 AM · #208 |
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Isn't the eggshell flexible when it comes out and a couple of seconds after the chicken pooped it out?
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Yes it is and I have seen it first hand. We travelled with the kids to my inlaws house and they live on a farm (this was some years ago). As soon as we arrived the kids had to visit the chickens. We headed down to the chicken coop and entered. There was one chicken which seemed really sick. It didn't want to move even when we gave it a poke with a stick. Then, an egg drops out onto the ground (it was standing on the ground). It was warm and soft and then hardened up. A memorable moment but I do feel for the chicken. Here we were poking at it trying to make it move and all I can think of now is how irritating that would have been - rather like someone poking and pushing at me whilst in the last minutes of delivery a baby. Can just imagine what it was thinking about us!!!
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05/23/2008 09:38:04 AM · #209 |
I was just told that the prisoners on Alcatraz were given hot showers so that they wouldn't become acclimatized to cold water and thus succeed at swimming off the island.
I'm not sure I'd do a fact-check on that particular fact.
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05/23/2008 09:57:03 AM · #210 |
| Ramblin, that is soooooooooooo the sort of thing I would do too. |
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05/23/2008 01:24:19 PM · #211 |
| Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second. |
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05/23/2008 01:45:22 PM · #212 |
| A cat has more bones than a person: 230 vs. 206. |
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05/23/2008 02:36:38 PM · #213 |
... reminds me of one my mom used to tell: a giraffe and a mouse have an equal number of bones in their necks.
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05/23/2008 02:38:19 PM · #214 |
| your foot is the same length as your forearm...(with your arm bent, your foot will be the same length from the crook of your elbo to your wrist) |
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05/23/2008 02:44:14 PM · #215 |
Originally posted by farfel53:
Originally posted by dsterner:
I believe the gold ring in their ear was to cover the cost of their burial if they died at sea. ...wait? does that make sense? wouldn't they be lost if the ship went down in those days? |
Yes, the gold ring was to pay Davey Jones. |
The burial costs has also been cited. When a sailor went ashore in foreign lands, the earing would ensure funds for a proper burial.
I have also heard that the earring was worn as a badge of honor symbolizing that you sailed around Cape Horn. The tradition is that it is worn on the landside ear. That is why it is typically on the left ear as the prevailing winds blow east.
Yet another story is that it symbolizes surviving a ship wreck.
Which is correct? Beats me. |
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05/23/2008 03:20:54 PM · #216 |
| The pancreas gland has both endocrine and exocrine functions. |
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05/23/2008 04:51:55 PM · #217 |
Gun fighters of the old west would put their burying money in one cylinder of their Revolvers. They called it the "Dead Man's" cylinder.
ETA: And the "Dead Man's Hand" is Ace's & 8's
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05/23/2008 05:00:43 PM · #218 |
| Useless Fact: I can drink enough in one night to be hungover for two days... :P |
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05/23/2008 05:07:37 PM · #219 |
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
ETA: And the "Dead Man's Hand" is Ace's & 8's |
Yeah ... but the aces and eights should be all black cards, and the kicker should be the Deuce rather than the Queen of Spades ... |
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05/23/2008 05:10:05 PM · #220 |
Originally posted by jdannels:
Useless Fact: I can drink enough in one night to be hungover for two days... :P |
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor and not hold on to anything |
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05/23/2008 05:17:47 PM · #221 |
Was in a meeting the other day and waiting for everyone to arrive I was told these interesting 'facts'....
This guy had been to a National Trust House and was in a room with a big board that looked like a table, on the reverse of it games were inlaid (board games), people would stand on it and act out plays (treading the boards)it could be pushed to the side of the room and have crockery etc on it (Cupboard), the room was oft used to dicuss Estate matters (in the board room), there where benches around the table and just one Chair for the head of the household (Chairman of the board)
Off you pop to myth busters ;)
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05/23/2008 05:47:35 PM · #222 |
Originally posted by citymars:
... reminds me of one my mom used to tell: a giraffe and a mouse have an equal number of bones in their necks. |
All mammals have the same number of neck bones (7), except for manatees and sloths. |
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05/23/2008 06:55:47 PM · #223 |
| Cats use their whiskers to gage width while travelling in tight places. |
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05/23/2008 07:34:59 PM · #224 |
Nostradamus once predicted in his journal: "In the century 21st, the one known as Jacques will be the savior of the world... five seasons in a row." Moments later, Jack Bauer knocked down the door, shot Nostradamus in the kneecaps, and yelled "WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?!"
Superman has Jack Bauer pajamas.
Jack Bauer doesn't drink honey, he chews bees.
Jack Bauer doesn't follow protocol. Protocol follows Jack Bauer.
Jack Bauer doesn't have nightmares. Nightmares have Jack Bauers. |
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05/23/2008 09:10:55 PM · #225 |
//www.cleveland.com/education/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/isedu/121127220696540.xml&coll=2Originally posted by aliqui:
Originally posted by Wildcard:
Originally posted by tjbel05:
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
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Not so, they have very good memories. |
Yup, that's another myth Mythbusters busted. They taught some goldfish to swim through some holes to get to food or something. |
Message edited by author 2008-05-23 21:12:27. |
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