45 thoughts on “Meme Me Tender, Meme Me Slow”

    1. LOL

      I miss Star Gate and Star Gate Atlantis. At least the early seasons. Didn’t care for the Ori or Replicator spins.

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    3. None of those folks were conversing in normal voices after two demo blocks, untamped, in a tunnel.

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    1. Yep. In all the early stages, in point of fact, I don’t particularly care about typos other than rampant perfectionism.

      The latter has caused much grief, however, in ALL the stages.

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      2. Of course. If there are deep structural problems, all the typos are liable to go away in the course of revision. (Replaced by new ones, of course, but you can’t catch typos not made yet.)

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    1. Technically true. One could, in fact, care less about the tears of frustrated Commies that didn’t get to oppress the proles.

      The specific amount of that care is something that mathematicians have been using very large numbers to represent very, very small things for. Counting all the zeros on the right of the decimal to get to that very, very distant numeral one can get tiring.

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  7. Regarding engineers. I have met a few that needed a translator much more than I expect aliens would.

    You know those in-jokes that people that have known each other for decades have? The kind where you can say one word, and an entire context, history, and colorful tapestry of expanding understanding unfolds?

    I met an engineer that expected every single word of his to be like that to every other person on the planet. Brilliant guy. Absolutely impenetrable communication skills.

    Then he got married, and suddenly people could understand him!

    …Second hand.

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    1. In some cases we just used the name of the boat, to describe the hassle involved when working on some system. Nautilus did become the Nautlipig though.

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    2. We have a budding engineer at work, and apparently I am his translator. Arghhhh.

      Seriously, a nice kid. But he has a tendency to act totally differently when working with different people. So the kid I know is not the kid other people know.

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    3. snorts My brother’s wife started helping him and my dad in the shop, and for months she thought they were mad at her, because they would only grunt at each other. She realized after a while that WAS their communication. They translate this in the house as ‘grab me that thing’ – and somehow Dad and Brother always know what the ‘thing’ is, through some mysterious telepathy only available to the two of them. Most of the time they don’t even point.

      My brother’s an engineer – one of the unusual engineers who can communicate with the outside world. But every so often he gets excited about something, and then – well, he starts speaking lingo that I, as a reasonably intelligent person with a rather large vocabulary, can’t translate.

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      1. I get a kick out of a niece. For reasons, pretty much out of touch as she was in HS and college. Interesting that she, and her husband, got into computers and IT. By the time we were back in touch, her husband had passed away (heart lungs complications, he was my younger sister’s age, niece is younger than little sister, but not much younger), and she has been working for Disney, from home in outer greater Seattle area. Her job? The intermediary/translator between the creative Disney types, and the software and hardware IT types.

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  8. Heh.

    I like the vet neighborhood one.

    “No sir. Your fireworks won’t give me nightmares. I was Infantry.”

    ….

    “I am nightmares.”

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      1. My beagle, Lilly, decided that any pizza in the house was hers so she wanted me to “share” the pizza.

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  11. Q. What’s the difference between our media and that in Orwell’s 1984?
    A. In 1984, the media only spends two minutes per day hating.

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  12. As a (non-combat—stateside, in fact) veteran, I will remark that the one of most fun things in the Army is learning how to make napalm, throwing live hand grenades, and blowing stuff up in general. I’ll leave it those who’ve been there and done that to say if there is a therapeutic effect of fireworks/explosives. So yeah, in the Army they pay you to blow stuff up. (On the other hand, in the Air Force the officers take the multi-million dollar airframes into combat while the enlisted stay on the ground, so there’s that.)

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    1. Not overselling my miniscule service. Most I ever conquered in the military was some square footage of dive bar. In Georgia. Ours.

      Biggest military high evah? Maxing the bayonet assault course at Benning’s Boys Reformatory. Totally hulked out. Wrecked several dummy targets. Bent my bayonet and dummy rifle. The DS at the end line actually got out of my way shrieking “Not ME d###it! Aaaaa!”.

      Then I just shut it off and went back to my normal deadpan. Confused the F out of them.

      Sold it. Totally. (Kzin grin)

      Good times. Good times.

      “Last stand of the clerks” at Fort Irwin NTC was also kinda cool. (Well, 120F cool anyway…)

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  14. The only thing I see wrong with the phone pole fix is that the 100MPH tape isn’t OD Green.

    With 100MPH tape, 550 cord, and a Swiss Knife, you can fix quite a bit of life.

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