Yep. Ghosts in Machines are real.

I have witnessed it first hand multiple times.

At university there was an old 1st gen Makerbot 3D printer and if you took away one of it’s prints that were displayed around it, all of your prints would fail, even if you replaced it the printer held a grudge. And never EVER say a 100% certainty statement that the print would succeed like “it is printing ok, it will be finished in an hour”. Only say things like “the print is doing ok so far”.

The electronics lab was throwing out five old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes so our little maker group took them in and two were working fine. The other three weren’t displaying the trace on the screen. One of our members, a chap from Romania who in his youth spent his time fixing old TVs in his home country, said to let him have a look. I swear down he plugged them in, leant his ear against it, said to the scopes “shh it’s ok, we’ll look after you”, and gave them gentle taps on top just behind the screen, and all three jumped back into life in perfect calibration.

And finally, my girlfriend at the time had a 1st gen iPod that would, at the most inopportune moments randomly wake itself up, play a few seconds of a random song, then shut itself down.

My new recipe book:

A Taste of Fire and Ice.

Just don’t expect the sequel to be released anytime soon.

Our chief kink is suprise!

Ni!

Take her on a crusade to concur the holy land, start a quest to find the Holy Grail, and show her how to slay the dragon.

Does that make Willem the Lisan Al Gaib?

Liberals

All authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.

The slightly misshapen head and facial features from fetal alcohol syndrome.

You Linux users sure are a contentious people.

This is why you don’t play Free Bird on the DeWalt stereo.

This is more c/aboringdystopia

The Mail has less utility than toilet paper.

The Akira Slide.

(Chef’s kiss)

MATLAB: And I took that personally.

Bro, do you need a hug?

Correct, we’re all dying and we’ll all continue to die. Now, why don’t you start living, and enjoy the neon sign?

Same reason here, my 3rd party app was BaconReader and now using Connect. I didn’t know Connect had an auto hide feature, I’ll have to check that out.

It’s ok, not every social event is going to go well and most of the time it’s nothing personal, we’re all just kind of bumbling along through the confusing and absurd reality that is life.

May I join this group hug?

Ok fair but of the choices to have buzzing near me, I’m still picking the bee every time.

Oh yeah pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to a null.

Fig. 1 - Meanwhile your C programming lecturer.