Before the iPhone was released, one of the major challenges of cell phone design was keyboard layout, look & feel, placement, etc. Prior to these rectangular screens, keyboards were a key differentiator among cell phone brands.
In this churning market, in 2003, Nokia drops this bad boy, the N-Gage game system/cellular phone:
Lots of buttons, oddly placed, but it is definitely a product of its time.
Right?
Well, I just came across this 2011 post… team, it is worth blowing up the picture and reading the text. The last 9 words above the photo are jaw-dropping:
(In case you’re wondering, I did the research: 1999)
In the music video for Faith No More’s “Epic,” when it’s raining, Mike Patton, the singer, is the only one getting wet. Must have watched that video literally thousands of times and never noticed that until just now.
This is really embarrassing, but I only recently came to the realization that the Count… you know, the Count, on Sesame Street… is a vampire. I can’t really explain myself, I guess I thought he was just this guy who would stereotypically be assumed to be a vampire… but the dude has fangs.
emphasized textWhen I was about seven, I heard the hymn (and Cat Stevens song) “Morning Has Broken,” and thought the line “Eden saw play” was about Eve going to Broadway and catching the latest Neil Simon or Ibsen theatrical drama.
It wasn’t until late adulthood that I realized it isn’t a stand-alone sentence, but a subordinate clause, linked to the previous line (“born of the one light”) by an implied “that.”
This one’s really embarrassing; I only just realized a few days ago that the title of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “I, Borg” was a play on “cyborg”.
Why does Count von Count, a vampire, teach us how to count on Sesame Street? It comes from a European belief that vampires are compelled to count spilled seeds or grains. Some Slavic coastal towns also believed that vampires would count the holes in a fishing net. It was common practice to scatter seeds outside the entrances to a home (or drape fishing nets over them). Some Chinese myths say that a vampire must count every grain if they come across a bag of rice. A vampire would stop to count, delaying them until sun-up, and we all know that vampires don’t do well in sunlight.
and so forth, but apparently (most of) these are pretty common herbs: eye of newt = mustard seeds, wool of bat = ilex, hound’s-tongue = cynoglossum , etc.
Sure, you’re gone for nearly a year and you choose to post that as a comeback post ? You shoulda picked a different thread. Glad to see you back!
I learned it from the X-Files where a guy threw a handful of sunflower seeds on the floor and escaped while the vampire was counting them. It was played for laughs in a surreal episode, but I think that’s the only time I’ve seen it.
Not a millionth time, and not me, but me and my wife were watching Season 8 of The Brokenwood Mysteries last night. I mentioned something about a Maori character and my wife turned to me and said “Isn’t this set in Ireland?” That’s right, we already watched seven seasons and she never picked up on that.
To make it even better, her parents were first generation Irish and she’s been to Ireland many times while growing up. And we vacationed in Ireland about 10 years ago. She’s going to be hearing about this long after we finish watching the series.
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? You shoulda picked a different thread. Glad to see you back!