(Somewhat) Daily Blog #36 · 4:46am Aug 2nd, 2017
May or may not have recently posted a rewrite of EV’s stories on an alt account... With permission, of course.
May or may not have recently posted a rewrite of EV’s stories on an alt account... With permission, of course.
Random Fact:
Feather flowers are fake flowers made using feathers instead of flowers, hence the name.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I just realized that I’m still not technically finished with my 100 follower special. Shall I end it off with another world-ending catastrophe?
Random Fact: The AMD k6-x series of CPUs was so successful that it singlehandedly generated enough revenue for AMD to develop the flagship Athlon line, which was internally codenamed “k7”, as a followup to the series that successfully competed against not just the Intel Pentium, but the Pentium, the Pentium Pro, the Pentium 2, and Pentium 3. The Athlon, compared to the k6-x, was able to reach much higher clockspeeds than its predecessor, and later on started the x86-64 generation of
Random Fact:
Bloons Tower Defense was based on the original game, “Bloons” which was in turn basically a digital take on those balloon pop games. Except instead of throwing the darts directly at the balloons, one had to aim from the side, and in later levels, bounce the darts around. How do I know? I’ve played the Bloons games before.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meh. I’ve mostly had the same stuff on my mind as I did yesterday.
Random Fact: Windows XP and Windows 7 are both very well known for their wide range of hardware compatibility, with the former being able to (unofficially) run on platforms as far back as the i486, and the latter still receiving official support for the latest hardware.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My SD to IDE adapter I ordered for ~$2 arrived today. Windows XP now runs surprisingly fast considering how it’s only got 64 megabytes of RAM.
Some people... just... some people just want to watch the world burn.
Random Fact: Super Smash Bros. originally wasn’t intended to contain Nintendo characters.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~
By now, you probably have noticed a certain new story with over a hundred downvotes. The supposed “boyfriend” of the author apparently reported me for attacking another user just because I corrected their grammar in the comments. I’d like to see how the mods react.
Random Facts~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Atari recently seemed to hint that they are making a new console for the first time in decades. It’s called the “Atari Box”.
Wheeee, fireworks!
Random Fact: Rice Krispies are pretty much literally just the cereal mixed with melted marshmallow and/or frosting.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~
So apparently the city I live in just had an anniversary of its’ founding or something, ‘cause I’ve spent the past two days at this crazy huge event at the park with pretty much everything, ranging from a live concert, to food trucks, to waterslides, to ziplining, etc. etc.
Random Fact: Samsung still has a pretty large stock of Galaxy Note 7 phones. They’re since replaced the explodey batteries with not-explodey ones and rebadged the phones as the “Galaxy Note Fan Edition”.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~
AMD K6 > Pentium
Random Fact: Clock-for-clock, many of AMD’s earlier CPUs such as the K6 and Athlon were actually faster than Intel’s own offerings, and so AMD adopted the “PR-Rating” system, which compares the speed of the CPU directly against a competing Intel model, while in reality running at a lower clock speed.
At least only one of my eyes don't see well.
Random Fact: In order to build the Hoover Dam, the Colorado River had to be diverted through the canyon walls, which ended up taking the majority of the work and time involved in the dam's construction. The rest was just digging down to bedrock and filling the place with a crapton of concrete.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Guess who broke their glasses by simply taking them off today?
Random Fact: In many places of the US, fireworks are banned due to being fire hazards. This is especially so in drier areas.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~
I’ve pretty much been spouting a decent little stream of my own thoughts today in separate blogs, so this here’s probably gonna be short.
Brace yourselves... the school year is approaching...
Random Fact: Many computer hardware vendors actually own seemingly unrelated companies as subsidiaries. For example, Acer used to run Aopen as a hardware vendor (Something I only know because of the fact that my first PC has an Aopen mobo), and ALi, AKA Acer Labs, inc. AOpen now mostly does business with embedded electronics and special-order PCs, and the part of ALi was acquired by Nvidia.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No random facts today.
I’ve realized a while back that I tend to post facts based on my mood. I’m not in a good mood.
Can you say, “COMCAST SUX?!”
Random Facts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Early designs of the Raspberry Pi prototype were based on ATMega microcontrollers instead of the Broadcom SOC that they are today.
Faster-than-light travel by conventional means is physically impossible without things like quantum entanglement to help along the way.
There’s a USB adapter for just about every game controller imaginable.
The Nintendo Switch is the first Nintendo console to utilize an Nvidia GPU.
Don’t worry, my mood’s quite a bit better today. Nothing beats some good ol’ uplifting music.
Random Fact: MLC, or Multi-Level Cell technology is used to produce cheaper and higher capacity SSDs and memory cards, but are notorious for wearing out faster than their SLC (Single-Level Cell) variants.
Thoughts & Opinions
Ask me what my favorite band is any day, and I’ll probably say Owl City.
Random Facts (Only three today) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For a time, one of the most popular recording formats for home videos were small DVDs that were roughly around 3 inches in circumference.
These aforementioned discs weren’t able to be loaded in the slot-loading drives that were common to Apple’s computers at the time, as the loading mechanism wasn’t able to properly latch onto the disc.
Random Fact:
With a compatibility pack installed, Microsoft Office XP can still actually open and edit modern docs perfectly fine. Guess who uses a thrift-store copy of Office XP for offline editing?
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
My Own Reality:
Didn't work on My Own Reality for tonight.
Pony-Me/Pony-Me: Outtakes:
Working on another character development chapter centering on Lisa and Samantha. While canon, this takes place long before the events of Pony-Me and My Own Reality, so it'll be posted under Outtakes.
Random:
Let’s have some dubstep Tetris. Why? Because dubstep Tetris.
Random Fact: Often times, it’s possible to tell a phone’s build quality simply by weighing the phone. Typically, the heavier the phone is, the better built it is. Just look at the Nokia bricks, for example.
Thoughts & Opinions~~~~~~~~~~~~~