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I have seen "Field of Dreams" and I know The Onion but I don't understand this joke
No ice cream for old people
EDIT: Disregard this. On a different phone, the year can be tapped and changed. So it's a bug on my Pixel, not a design choice.
Someone at cremedelacreme.cz ice cream shop: "Let's design our date-of-birth picker so that it defaults to the current date, only allows scrolling by single month and ignores any text input!"
i.e. I have to click over 600 times to enter my date of birth...
Changing the range of the PC keyboard notes?
I use FL Studio Mobile on my Chromebook, it works great and it partially supports the Chromebook physical QWERTY keyboard, so that I can use it to input notes. My only gripe is that the two rows on Chromebook keyboard correspond to two octaves from C4 to C6 and I am unable to find any way to change this range (when I want to enter lower or higher notes). Any tips?
(Note that my question has nothing to do with the range of the musical keyboard displayed in the lower part of the screen. I am talking about physical keyboard.)
In-game information about "instant use" environment items?
(Absolute beginner here)
When I see e.g. "Wiggly Litchi" on the ground and collect it, it does not appear in my inventory but SOMETHING happens instantly. I am not asking specifically what happens when I collect Wiggly Litchi (I can google that) but generally, where in-game can I find information about the effects of these "instant" items?
SOLVED: It's in Playguide / Tip List / Endemic Life
It's NOT in the "Endemic Life Field Guide", even after you capture it with the net.
A FIFA flag holder fell behind and got stuck in the massive flag as it got rolled up.
Hledám Hi-Fi/elektro prodejnu, kde si mohu před koupí VYZKOUŠET několik různých bluetooth sluchátek
Hledám v Praze nebo okolí (v dojezdu autem) prodejnu, kam mohu přijet, vyzkoušet si na místě vícero bluetooth sluchátek, jedna koupit a zase odjet. Čím větší výběr, tím lepší. Dřív taková byla poblíž Náměstí Míru, před pár lety ji zrušili.
Manželka potřebuje BT sluchátka do postele na usínání (aby mě nerušilo to, co si pouští), ale má malé uši a většina sluchátek ji tlačí. Četl jsem mnoho recenzí online, ale je zapotřebí osobní zkouška. Alternativní možnost je, že budu postupně objednávat, zkoušet a vracet sluchátka z Alzy, ale to je podstatně méně operativní.
Very noobish question about GHCI
While playing with very simple Haskell examples in GHCI, I often enter :r to reload the current module, immediately followed by test to run my simple test function in that module (I am editing the module source using the text editor in another window).
Is there a way, inside GHCI, to to quickly invoke :r, immediately followed by calling specific function defined in that module (only if the module compiles without errors)? Setting some sort of "macro" that does this? Or at least putting both of these "commands" on a simple line so that I can scroll to it quickly in the command history using the up-arrow?
I am doing all this in the "Linux development environment" container on Chromebook, if that's relevant to anything.
Board game about old Prague that also features a booklet with historical context?
I clearly remember recent boardgame that takes place in historical Prague and also includes a separate booklet that puts the game locations into real historical context. I thought this was "Praga Caput Regni" but the booklet is not featured in its unboxing video. The same for "Orloj". Am I hallucinating or was it a different game altogether?
The reason for all this is that I am Czech and I am thinking about regional boardgame gift (in English) for a U.S. person.
UPDATE: I remembered it wrong. It WAS "Praga Caput Regni" but the "booklet" I remembered is in fact just a single historical context page in the main rulebook.
Gentle "warning" of sorts about "Disclosure Day"
I saw "Disclosure Day" a few hours ago (press screening in Czechia).
The music works exceedingly well in the film, but...
Don't expect anything even remotely "in-your-face" as "E.T." or "Hook". "Disclosure Day" soundtrack is mostly "bubbling under the surface", reminding me mostly of "Minority Report".
The already published track, "Listen", is in fact the end credits suite. There is almost nothing similar in the film itself. In the film itself, the main theme is mostly only hinted at and - if I remember correctly - does NEVER appear in full orchestration as in "Listen". If I didn't hear "Listen" before I went to see the film, I think I wouldn't even think that the film has a main theme. I didn't notice any secondary theme but that doesn't mean it's not there somewhere.
There is some very nice choral work near the end and some interesting use of synths throughout.
Again, it's a great soundtrack but probably not what most people are expecting aften hearing "Listen".
In the end titles, it says: Music orchestrated and conducted by John Williams, William Ross and a third name I didn't catch.
Older comedy where main character (showbiz producer) makes very specific joke about MGM studio
This was an older film or TV show (made no later than in 1980s) and I vividly remember this very specific joke that the main character made:
The main character (male, film producer or something similar) is leaving his office and angrily shouts to his assistant: "And if Goldwyn or Mayer call, tell them that I am in the metro!" It was dubbed into my local Czech language so the original wording might've been a bit different but I very distinctly remember the exact local wording and angry intonation: "A kdyby volali Goldwyn nebo Mayer, tak jim vyřiďte, že jsem v metru!"
Also, it might have (at least partly) taken place in the UK because I vaguely remember him riding in the typical old British taxi cab with Big Ben visible in the background. But I am less sure about this scene.
I saw it in theTV broadcast in the 1980s in the Communist Czechoslovakia so it was probably not U.S. production (more probably British, European or even local Czech production). I've been looking for this for over 30 years because I use the quote frequently.
(It was definitely not "The Producers" but the humor had similar manic vibe.)
Crane control room in the trash incinerator facility in Prague, Czechia
Jak je to v r/czech s tykáním a vykáním?
Žil jsem v přesvědčení, že si zde všichni navzájem tak nějak automaticky tykají. Především proto, že jsem to zde tak viděl mnoho let (více než deset), co sem chodím, a že to bylo v českých online diskusích obvyklé už v minulém tisíciletí.
V posledních několika měsících se mi ale několikrát stalo, že mi tady ostatní vykali. A není to tím, že bych si změnil profilový obrázek. Ten mám pořád stejný. Ani datum narození nebo věk ve zdejším profilu neuvádím. Pak mi samozřejmě přijde poněkud nevychované takovému člověku tykat, jako jsem zvyklý defaultně tykat všem.
Ve zdejších oficiálních rules jsem o tykání / vykání nic nenašel a na české diskusní weby obecně chodím dost málo a komunikuji tam ještě méně, takže moc nemám s čím srovnávat...
EDIT: Oops, původně jsem měl v postu jeden zásadní překlep "tykali" / "vykali", takže dával ještě méně smyslu, než bylo zamýšleno...
A 1980s (or sooner) comedy about a man trying to hide the dead body, including the scene where the body is masqueraded as a sculpture / lamp
I saw this movie a LONG time ago, in 1980s or even 1970s. It was definitely made no later than in 1980s and very probably much sooner (possibly even 1950s-1960s).
It was a comedy about main character trying to hide a dead body in his mansion but it contained some scenes that were very scary to me as a child.
Two specific scenes that I remember until today:
- In an effort to conceal the dead body, it is cast into plaster (or similar hard material), and then a lamp is attached to its hand so that it looks like elaborate artistic lamp (inside the mansion).
- There is a power surge (short circuit / lightning?), the electricity flows through the body/lamp described above and, in cartoon-like manner, the human skeleton "flashes" through the plaster for a split second.
Given that I saw this in a Communist Europe in 1980s, it was quite possibly an European film (those were much more frequent than Hollywood movies back then in our country)
SOLVED: It's "Jo" / "Joe the Busybody" (1971)