|
zephaneas wrote: Any reason not to upgrade?
None.
|
|
|
|
|
Never heard of before, but impressed...
Wikipedia[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
A remarkable woman in many ways.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sure you don't mean Count D'Money?
|
|
|
|
|
Asneeze the father of Achoo
|
|
|
|
|
I believe you're thinking of Baron Grinit?
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Watch it!
see signature
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life. Mongo also alternate to SQL?
|
|
|
|
|
Of Rock Ridge. Splendid Splendid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plus she was hot!
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
|
|
|
|
|
I'd concatenate that on the left.
|
|
|
|
|
Something I'm glad to have learned.
To'dah
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
Not sure of the algorithm that Google uses to decide about their personalities to doodle.
Because, as you say, you had never heard of her; me too. But, someone at Google had, and they had the time and resources to create a doodle.
|
|
|
|
|
A beautiful and impressive woman obviously prepared to do whatever it takes to get what she wants. Escaped from an abusive husband... I can sympathize with that but then she goes on to be married another five times. Six husbands seems excessive; she obviously had a personality flaw or some kind of PTSD from her first husband and/or made a lot of poor choices - she even became estranged from her own adopted son when he was only 12!
I don't know how she was really; everything is hearsay evidence; but she strikes me as "high maintenance". A pity about the plastic surgery later in her life. She should have stuck with her (actually very useful) scientific inventions; she appeared to have a real talent for that.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
As coincidence has it my dad was talking about her just last weekend.
He said he'd seen a movie about her (not with, but about).
We still haven't found what movie he was talking about though...
|
|
|
|
|
It's HEDLEY Lamarr![^]
(Sorry, just kidding with you. In Blazing Saddles, they make fun of the name Hedy Lamarr)
Anyway, I guess she wasn't very famous in your neck of the woods. I'm just curious as to why you're impressed? Because she was married SIX times?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
I'm impressed because of the mixture of her nature - she was almost everywhere...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
What's being married six times got to do with it? She was a mathematical genius. The significant thing about her invention was that it was given to the nation without payment. Imagine the royalties her heirs would be earning if she hadn't done that. Modern communications couldn't function successfully without the invention.
|
|
|
|
|
By now, the invention (invented during WWII, don't forget!) would have been out of patent protection.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dan Neely wrote: Now what am I going to do when I need to be distracted... Reading the below thread "Things you do when distracted" would be a good start.
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
My answer was reach out and touch the plama globe and watch the lighting change. None of the other ideas in that thread seem as fun.
I did turn on the lightup base for my Lichtenberg figure cylinder (mine is similar to the one in the upper left)[^] again; but that's a purely passive toy.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|