Once I read a tale about a guy who plugged in a dodgy toaster, and all the lights went out.

All I remember is that it was a short story.

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u/TinyNiceWolf — 8 hours ago

Mario was playing the seventh hole at Pebble Beach when the wind lifted his ball up and somehow dropped it right into the sixth hole!

Everyone watching started to applaud sarcastically.

The moral:

>!Be careful not to wind up in the wrong hole, or you too could get :golf clap:.!<

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u/TinyNiceWolf — 2 days ago

Basic wired keyboard but with touchpad?

I'm seeking a full-sized 104 key wired keyboard with built-in touchpad. Prebuilt, not for gaming, just for programming/browsing/etc. Budget: up to $150.

I've been perfectly happy with the cheap keyboards that come included when you buy a PC, so it doesn't have to be high end at all, but I'd like to avoid ones that break after a month, or have annoying design issues.

Ideally, I'd like a traditional IBM Model M layout plus Windows/Menu keys, and don't care about all the special-function keys to adjust speaker volume and such. Just that layout, plus a good touchpad and some equivalent to a mouse wheel.

Or equivalently, take a basic keyboard that's included when you buy a PC, but with a touchpad/wheel stuck onto it. (Does anybody make a touchpad that's designed to clamp onto the side of a keyboard somehow? That might be a fine alternative. The keyboard needs to sit in my lap, not on a table, which is why I can't just put a separate touchpad next to it. It needs to somehow be a single unit.)

I've considered the $50 Adesso AKB-445UB, and it seems close, but the arrow keys are positioned inconveniently, and Amazon reviews suggest it may not last. Anything similar but better that I should consider instead?

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u/TinyNiceWolf — 4 days ago

Oliver was the son of former adult film star Traci Lords, and in 2008 he was starting a small film studio.

For his first serious drama, he wanted Tom Hanks, but unfortunately, Tom was under contract to the Weinsteins for his next three films.

"What will it take to get me Tom Hanks?", Oliver wrote Harvey Weinstein.

"Heh. Nothing you've got.... Except, maybe, some images? You know the kind I mean."

"Digital images from my mom's early days? Ugh, you're such a perv. Fine, I'll ask her."

And so it came to pass in the year of our lord 2008 that the pervy digital images were sent, and a reply came back.

"For these GIFs we have received we give T. Hanks, O. Lords."

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u/TinyNiceWolf — 27 days ago