Day: January 30, 2019, 11:47 PM

Of Quartz

Chill Uncategorized

How does stuff like this get past fact checkers? It’s from this article.

Watches powered by quartz were invented in the 1980s—they were much more accurate, and powered by batteries that kept ticking without interruption much longer than any mechanical watch.

The first quartz wristwatch was invented and released in the late 1960s, and more were released from the early 1970s on.

In December 1969, Seiko produced the world’s first commercial quartz wristwatch, the Seiko-Quartz Astron 35SQ[20] which is now honored with IEEE Milestone.[21] The Astron had a quartz oscillator with a frequency of 8192 Hz and was accurate to 0.2 seconds per day, 5 seconds per month, or 1 minute per year.

So, only off by more than a decade. No biggie. You should hire me to be your fact checker. This kind of crap will never make it through.

Hair

Chill Regular-ass Post

I remember when just about every woman had hair like that. Well, every woman in the early- to mid-1980s between 20-35 years old. My mom, my aunts, nearly everyone in the grocery store, most of the women on TV, etc.

It was not a good look.

Can Not See

Chill Regular-ass Post

What a time we live in, friends, where wanting free speech, true equality, and the greatest freedom for the greatest number of people makes you a Nazi and just a wicked and terrible person.

Sure, morals change, ideals change, but I never thought I’d live in a time where the left was banging the war drums, lost in conspiracy-ville, and where identity was more important than anything else.

Hope the moral winds shift again, and soon. This isn’t working except for a few, and they are all ultra-rich.

Xbox Waves

Chill Regular-ass Post

What if we do detect extraterrestrial radio transmissions and it’s not as we think the secrets of the universe or even a mathematical formula to say “hello,” but instead the equivalent of an interstellar 12-year-old on Xbox Live telling us what he’s going to do to our mom.

With the way trolling and griefing seem to increase as the tech level goes up, would this now surprise anyone?