The Distract me from 2020s P&CE Thread Part Trois

Manufactured Triumph

 

There was a Russian figure skater a while back who could do a quad jump before anyone else, but otherwise wasn’t that great of an artistic skater. He won silver at the 2010 Olympics, so he gave himself the Platinum medal.

https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2010/02/evgeni_plushenkos_platinum_med.html

You could call it the Plushenko!

 

Buffalo Bills of Dodgeball

 

Last month's Jokes Seth Can't Tell. Another one came out yesterday, but this one is funnier.

 

Someone rebuilt MTV. All videos with an occasional retro commercial which can be skipped.

https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

Read about it here
https://midnightrebels.com/mtv-rewind-the-33000-video-archive-restoring-music-history/

Here's stats:
72 hours ago, MTV REWIND went viral on Reddit.

Since then:

- 322,000 people visited
- 78 countries reached
- $8,358 donated voluntarily
- 0 ads shown
- 0 algorithms used

For reference-
Instagram took 75 days to hit 1M users.
ChatGPT took 5 days (with OpenAI's resources).

We'll hit 1M in 8 days.

 

From the MidnightRebels site:
Do Not Let This Server Die. Bandwidth isn’t free and nostalgia requires maintenance. If you want to keep this portal open before the inevitable server hug of death (or the cease-and-desist letters), you need to support the source.


Other than the MTV name/logos, I'm not sure there's much for a C&D. It just seems to be some sort of YouTube aggregator/playlist at its heart.

 

I'm enjoying the 1st day right now.

 

Second Coming

 

No sauce for Vito Slugaloni?

 

Ew, David

 

She didn’t give herself an award though. Bonaly is actually just a kickass person. Plushenko is a little bitch. (It grates to say that, but I am having a hard time finding a better word.)

 

All good points

 

Weather's been mild here. Saw some steelhead today, leaping up the falls. Amazing. Also checked out Yacolt Creek Falls.

Lucia Falls
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Yacolt Creek Falls​

 

Auria on his way to work.

 

Too cerebral

I like Cap'n Crunch but if you dig into it too quick, it can lacerate the roof of your mouth

 

I hope the Woke Mob doesn't take that all away

 

Bro, this is the distraction from all the BS thread, one more from yesterday...

 

Yes. This is the “Distract” thread.

The Doom thread is over there.

 

Black Jack's half-brother is an accomplished computer engineer:

Siegel has had a major impact on the design and capabilities of many types of mobile consumer electronics, including smart phones, GPS receivers, and so forth. He is the documented earliest creator of a complete, operating adaptation of the internet to fully-routed wireless operation, and many important / related technologies that are widely used today in such wireless devices, including:

• GPS-enabled mobile devices
• Automatic orientation of a map display to match the geographic cardinal points (US Patent 5,672,840)
• Optimizing unicast protocols (including TCP) for use on low-bandwidth, wireless networks (US Patent 6,701,375)
• Performing many security administrative and control tasks remotely (US Patent 7,278,023)
• Managing and administering a large network of wireless devices (US Patent 6,212,559)
• Increasing battery life on GPS-enabled devices (US Patent 7,256,731)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel