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Started by The Troll, March 09, 2011, 05:50:22 PM

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Palehorse

#180
October 01, 2011, 08:19:01 PM
Quote from: me on October 01, 2011, 07:32:12 PM
Let's don't be talkin' ice storms already.....  >:(

Been outside lately? The first one is right around the corner if you ask me!
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Palehorse

#181
October 01, 2011, 09:07:30 PM
I'm thinking snow by turkey day! :biggrin:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

damfast

#182
October 01, 2011, 10:22:29 PM
it snowed in my yard today (Marblehead)..... ok i lied, i just wanted to win at somethin
It's always darkest before the dawn.  So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

me

#183
October 02, 2011, 02:09:39 AM
Trump 2020

The Troll

#184
October 02, 2011, 10:18:26 AM
Quote from: me on October 02, 2011, 02:09:39 AM
:poke: :chair: :thubb:

  What ever you say, Grass Hopper.  :biggrin:

me

#185
October 04, 2011, 08:02:49 PM
Ron Paul is an idiot....... :rolleyes:
Trump 2020

Palehorse

#186
October 04, 2011, 09:14:51 PM
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R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

damfast

#187
October 05, 2011, 08:15:30 AM
Quote from: me on October 04, 2011, 08:02:49 PM
Ron Paul is an idiot....... :rolleyes:

i think we might be related then
It's always darkest before the dawn.  So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

Henry Hawk

#188
October 05, 2011, 08:16:57 AM
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - It all makes sense to me now...


"The future ain't what it used to be."– Yogi Berra

"Square roots are rarely found on any plant." FTW

Anne

#189
October 05, 2011, 01:39:04 PM
"A discontented man will find no easy chair." Ben Franklin

Palehorse

#190
October 06, 2011, 09:25:18 PM
Anybody else read some of the stuff out there, (urban legends), surrounding about how Steve Jobs came up with the Apple logo?

. . . Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial intelligence and unlocked German wartime codes.
His death, a decade after the end of the war, provides the link with Apple. Unrecognized for his work, facing jail for gross indecency and humiliated by estrogen injections intended to 'cure' his homosexuality, he bit into an apple he had laced with cyanide. He died in obscurity on June 7, 1954, 10 years and a day after the Normandy landings, which made copious use of intelligence gleaned by his methods.
And so, the story goes, when two Stanford entrepreneurs were looking for a logo for their brand new computer company, they remembered Turing and his contribution to their field. They chose an apple -- not a complete apple, but one with a bite taken out of it.. . .

. . .The apple represented knowledge, as in the biblical story of Adam and Eve, or referenced the falling fruit that led Sir Isaac Newton to the concept of gravity. . . .

. . .Janoff says that he received no specific brief from Steve Jobs, and although he's hazy about how he settled on the simple outline of an apple, the reason for the bite is crystal clear: it's there for scale, he says, so that a small Apple logo still looks like an apple and not a cherry. . .

. . .It wasn't long before Janoff discovered the first happy coincidence of his design, when a colleague told him that "bytes" were the foundation stones of computing. . .

To his credit, Jobs never said whether any, all, or none of these were true. So it would appear that unless Woz is going to step up to the plate and enlighten us, we are doomed to hear one of these urban legends presented as fact, until we turn to fertilizer ourselves. . .

Unless Steve Jobs gave his biographer the word, which may very well be the case. And we'll soon be able to read it for ourselves, since that biography is due out anytime now. . . I believe.

My guess is that the reason those Baptists are planning to protest his funeral is because they believe the first urban legend. (Got critical thinking skills?)  :rolleyes:

Or maybe its because he was a Buddhist?  :rolleyes:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Henry Hawk

#191
October 06, 2011, 09:45:40 PM
I heard, plain and simply he was a huge Beatles fan, and he always liked the Apple logo on their Apple records.
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 - It all makes sense to me now...


"The future ain't what it used to be."– Yogi Berra

"Square roots are rarely found on any plant." FTW

Palehorse

#192
October 06, 2011, 10:00:53 PM


I say they change the logo to what this person did!  8)
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

followsthewolf

#193
October 07, 2011, 05:57:16 AM
Back in the day, the legend was that he and Wozniak didn't know what to call their invention, so, for want of coming up with a better name, they named it for the apple that was sitting on the desk. Apparently the deal was that, if they couldn't come up with a better name after thinking about it overnight, the computer would be called an apple.
Ignorance and fanaticism are ravenous. They require constant feeding.

damfast

#194
October 07, 2011, 10:37:40 AM
sad that he is gone.  he was gifted in all things technology wise. i wonder if he left someone a list of things to do. i wonder who is out there who has the same vision he did....
It's always darkest before the dawn.  So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
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