DrBob

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Sweet summer child. We learned FORTRAN on punch cards that we would send off to the regional office for them to run. Our punch cards would get returned to us with a fanfold printout of errors/output. I'm not sure I ever saw a program work correctly. Mostly because the bad kids would slip fucked up cards into other people's programs, and comment cards remarking on the teacher and her physical unattractiveness. It was a major relief when they put in a micro-lab stocked with these.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

Again, fair. I haven't read Ms Daniel's comments directly. I can fully accept that there was something other than aesthetics driving the change.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Fair. And it's true that I haven't watched all the porn that out there, but it was my first sight of naked pudendum. I'm confident it wasn't the first ever. But the 60s and 70s were known as big bush era.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

With full respect to Ms Daniels I think it predates DVDs. My first sight (and many others I suspect) was an actress by the name of Seka who was shaving in the 70s and possibly earlier. As she tells it she was an early innovator in glamming up porn with good hair and makeup. Shaving was part of an exotic look.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I can read French but struggle with spoken French. Hell I can't even understand some people speaking English and it's my mother tongue.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago

Navigation and tracking have improved since 1970.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As old as people. I bet when we crack Linear A that will be one the phrases.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Goddamit. Now it's Manitoba. 😡

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

We want to spread his influence over a larger area to thin it out.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Easy to draw, hard to spell.

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In the old days almost everyone skated to classical music which was almost always in the public domain.

A few years ago the rules shifted to allow skating to music with lyrics, which opened the door to contemporary tunes.

That change has come with a host of issues including broadcast rights if the performance is televised, or differing rights depending on the country of performance. A routine can be peformed in some competitions in some places but not others.

 

I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

 

I don't know if this is what your after, but I flew into Denver today. I ate a takeout burrito in my hotel room while watching tv. I'm going to be in bed by 8.

 

The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren't relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?

Wall Street Journal article here for those who have access.

Here is a professor's blog entry for a barrier free commentary on the importance of the case.

 

I am finally going to join the '90s and set up a blog. The audience is mostly students to show how the academic stuff blends with real world professional practice. I'm an adjunct so I have a foot in both worlds.

I have my domain names (parked for years) and free webhosting through my university - but the university doesn't provide any development tools. All of the recommended tools I've run across (weebly, wix, webflow etc.) either want to host the page, manage the domain name, or require a fee to link the page to my host. I'm simply looking for a low cost site builder where I can edit my files and move them to my webspace.

Any recommendations for a WSYWIG style editor? I'd be happy to not have to learn any actual coding, but will if I have to.

The last time I did any of this I was manually tagging static pages in notepad (lol).

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