OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

[buffhockey]

 

[buffhockey]

 

[forty_three]

Study: Streaming Video Viewers Lose Patience After 2 Seconds « CBS Connecticut

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Study: Streaming Video Viewers Lose Patience After 2 Seconds « CBS Connecticut

I hate it when my video streams take too long to buffer.

/First world problems.

 

[forty_three]

I hate it when my video streams take too long to buffer.

/First world problems.

I love Louis CK

 

[dash]

I love it when I'm asked to write hundreds of lines of custom code in order to save managers/executives a single mouse click.

/and yes, that's why your BC Hydro bills keep increasing

 

[forty_three]

I AM FOOLING THEM ALL!

 

[dash]

^

I would have got away with it as well if it hadn't been for those meddling kids and their smartphones...

 

[elocomotive]

What we found was that people are pretty patient for up to two seconds,” Ramesh Sitaraman,



Uh... yeah, that doesn't make sense.

 

[dash]

I remember when we thought a baud rate of 9600 was smokin' fast

 

[esls79]

I remember when we thought a baud rate of 9600 was smokin' fast

My first computer was an apple II gs - it had a setting from 1-15 for baud rate and setting 14 was 9600 (and 15 was 19,200, which was it's limit iirc)

It's funny how you remember the most random and useless stuff sometimes

 

[forty_three]

It's National Bourbon Day

 

[forty_three]

[YOUTUBE]UOz_inGU9-M[/YOUTUBE]ook to

OH MY GOD! A mere 20 seconds separated this man and CERTAIN DOOM!

"In the time it took to get to the van, get in, start it, roll up the windows, have a sandwich and jerk off - the tree was there"

 

[xalbox]

It's National Bourbon Day

Well, that's a nice surprise! Can we make it international?

 

[forty_three]

 

[forty_three]

Being a music nut, I've always been fascinated by cover versions that are as good or better than the originals.

But this is the first time I've seen a cover version so good it made the person who wrote it cry.



When that choir showed up, I got goosebumps.

 

[forty_three]

Finally, one of these I can relate to.

 

[Darkstone42]

 

[xalbox]

Flooding in Europe (updated) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Nice photographs, but horrible event.

 

[puckhead]

Amazing pictures indeed