the "tera" in like terabyte is the same as the tera in teratology
it means monster!
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― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:15 (eight months ago) link
time for YOU to learn that this guy^^^ is who the song "killer queen" was written about
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:16 (eight months ago) link
AKA 'cowboy coffee'... also how traditional New Orleans coffee was made, using egg whites to settle the grounds
egg shells, not whites
― andrew m., Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:40 (eight months ago) link
monster monster queen wouldn't have the same ring to it
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link
Egg shells also used to fine (clarify) wine for hundreds of years.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
eggshells or eggs… or fish-skin!
https://khymos.org/2010/08/04/norwegian-egg-coffee/
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link
isinglass?
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:13 (eight months ago) link
yep! also used in beer, along w/"irish moss" which iirc is a kind of seaweed
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:14 (eight months ago) link
The only thing I ever directly heard of being made of isinglass is curtains.
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:20 (eight months ago) link
A Gimbel is just a Martini but with an onion instead of olive
Hope I'm not being overly pedantic but is a martini with an onion not actually a Gibson?
― henry s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:22 (eight months ago) link
an isingimbel is a coffee martini made with onion skins
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:23 (eight months ago) link
― andrew m., Wednesday, August 23, 2023 9:40 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
actually, you can use the egg white. same concept as using an egg white to clarify homemade stock.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:53 (eight months ago) link
sorry i see we've already covered that
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:59 (eight months ago) link
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:03 (eight months ago) link
I had no idea isinglass was so interesting tbh. Also I had no idea it existed so
― aeronimo is mad againe (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:46 (eight months ago) link
the "tera" in like terabyte is the same as the tera in teratology it means monster! 🖼
― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:48 (eight months ago) link
An electron’s mass is about one rontogram, Jupiter weighs two quettagrams and the diameter of the observable universe is one ronnameter. This is what representatives from 100 countries at the General Conference on Weights and Measures decided on Friday as they adopted four new SI unit prefixes.Metrologists and metric system enthusiasts can rejoice as there are now official prefixes for extremely large things – ronna and quetta (1027 and 1030) – and for very small stuff – ronto and quecto (10−27 and 10−30).This is the first time in over 30 years that the CGPM added to the prefixes for the International System of Units (SI) after it approved zetta, yotta, zepto and yocto in 1991. While the last change was aimed at chemists who wanted to express units in the Avogadro’s number range, this year’s update is driven by the need for big numbers in digital information. Data scientists are already using prefixes at the top of the range – yottabytes, for example – so a new one was urgently needed.‘It was high time,’ said Richard Brown from the UK’s metrology institute, the National Physical Laboratory, in an interview with the Associated Press. Brown, who proposed the change, explained that the names had to start with the letters r and q, the only ones not taken yet by other symbols or prefixes in the metric system. ‘There’s a precedent that they sound similar to Greek letters and that big number prefixes end with an a, and smaller numbers with an o,’ Brown told the Associated Press.There are now no more letters in the Latin alphabet left in case more prefixes are needed, but this likely won’t become a problem anytime soon.
― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:49 (eight months ago) link
The superscript didn’t c&p properly obv that should say 10^27 &c
― Grandall Flange (wins), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:51 (eight months ago) link
"Originally 'quecca' had been suggested for 10^30 but was too close to a profane meaning in Portuguese"
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:58 (eight months ago) link
how many lottabytes in a fuckobyte?
not using "lorra" is Cilla erasure
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:00 (eight months ago) link
Hellabytes
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:01 (eight months ago) link
look forward to this being a round on UC next series
― kinder, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 18:26 (eight months ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dwlxl9
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 18:28 (eight months ago) link
I think I must have known this at some point but I'd forgotten that Murdoch no longer owns Sky
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 19:39 (eight months ago) link
Only time I've ever heard of these is in "Surrey With the Fringe on Top", wtf are they?
― fetter, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 20:28 (eight months ago) link
I just learned that Long Cool Woman isn’t by CCR, but the Hollies
still unclear to me whether her dress is black or red #protomeme
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 22:34 (eight months ago) link
OK now I understand what "monster, monster" is, I only ever saw it as that skit in the Fast Show and was quite baffled, which I suppose anyone else would be by a skit saying "megalo megalo" or something.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:49 (eight months ago) link
ps on isinglass, at first i was 'huh that's saruman's place did tolkien take the name from some proto-germanic script about fish bladders? because of course he would.'
― aeronimo is mad againe (Hunt3r), Thursday, 24 August 2023 02:27 (eight months ago) link
_The only thing I ever directly heard of being made of isinglass is curtains._Only time I've ever heard of these is in "Surrey With the Fringe on Top", wtf are they?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 August 2023 11:18 (eight months ago) link
Bob Weinstock?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbCuFn3EH4
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:06 (eight months ago) link
wiki:
In the musical Oklahoma!, the song "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" describes the surrey as having "isinglass curtains you can roll right down" although here the term refers to mica, commonly used for windows in vehicle side screens (but totally inflexible).[13][14]
hard to verify the source here, but sounds like it could be a case of Songs where the songwriter confuses A with B
having said that, a GIS for "isinglass curtains" brings up lots of images / retailers of the flexible plastic coverings that you'd put on a e.g. a boat
i would read a whole 33 1/3 book about Surrey
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:15 (eight months ago) link
Bonnie “Prince” Billy took the photo on the cover of Slint’s ‘Spiderland’.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:19 (eight months ago) link
Can you surrey? Can you picnic?
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
Bonnie “Prince” Billy's dad took the photo on the cover of Slint’s ‘Tweez’.
― there's no such thing as a winnable volume war (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:54 (eight months ago) link
So it was the Old Photographer not the Young Photographer then (Jacobite joke).
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:57 (eight months ago) link
and bonnie "prince" billy himself is sitting in the tweez car
― wmlynch, Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:39 (eight months ago) link
Robert Burns wrote a version of "John Barleycorn" which was the model for most subsequent versions of the song. It was Burns who came up with that snappiest of lines, "John Barleycorn must die".
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 25 August 2023 17:57 (eight months ago) link
I think a few of Slint toured as Oldham's backing band in the early 90s when There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You came out.
― Stevo, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:09 (eight months ago) link
this week my external cd drive died.i still have a cd drive in an old XP machine that rips cds, but it's not connected to the internet of course.so, i have been using that and manually adding all the metadata which is a proper pain.then i find out about mp3tag.
― mark e, Friday, 25 August 2023 19:18 (eight months ago) link
The surname Tedesco means 'German' in the Italian language. Its plural form is Tedeschi. Carla Bruni's original surname was Tedeschi -- the only person I've ever heard of with this name apart from Susan.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link
The word for (a) German is interesting in that it’s a completely different unrelated word in many major languages. For example:
English: GermanSpanish: alemánItalian: tedesco Polish: NiemieckiFinnish: Saksa
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:45 (eight months ago) link
German: Deutsch
― koogs, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:47 (eight months ago) link
The Finnish word is obviously derived from Saxon - like the Scottish Gaelic word for English speakers, Sassenach.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:49 (eight months ago) link
Yes, although I researched that and found ‘Deutsch’ is distantly related to “tedesco.’ There was a word in Old German that was the ancestor of both those words.
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:50 (eight months ago) link
xp
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:51 (eight months ago) link
“Theodiscus” was the original word, attested Tobin 786 AD and meaning something like “of the people.” The French “teuton” is from the same root.
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:56 (eight months ago) link
*attested to in
― Josefa, Saturday, 26 August 2023 20:57 (eight months ago) link
It's "Nemyetski" in Russian, which literally translates to "one who does not understand" or, maybe more accurately, "one who does not speak an intelligible language" (i.e., a barbarian).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 26 August 2023 21:15 (eight months ago) link
a further connection to Susan Tedeschi is that the surname Allman ultimately derives from Norman French 'aleman,' which means ...
― budo jeru, Saturday, 26 August 2023 22:44 (eight months ago) link