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I wonder if any creature maybe during the cambrian explosion developed eyes based on zone plates to focus instead of lenses...

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moving out, housing, request for assistance (---) 

ok so, i posted about this last night in a followers-only post but

i need to move out asap

it's not because my parents are awful, they've been great

but they're planning to move into a smaller place and that likely won't include me

so if you know anyone in the Fraser Valley/Greater Vancouver area who can take in a 22-year-old mess of gender please let me know

i'm employed and can help with rent, so... idk...

apparently electronic devices in the UK used to be sold without plugs on them? Interesting. I don't think that was ever much of a thing in the US, but maybe we're just not old enough to remember it.

it makes sense that they didn't, they were expensive and didn't hold as much as CDs, but still.

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I wonder if anyone ever had in-car record players.... you'd only be able to play it while stopped

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imagine if every in-car audio format had remained in cars, and just accumulated more and more different tape decks and optical drives over time

Saba, 4-track, 8-track, cassette tape, CD, various flash memory devices (I'm pretty sure there have been cars that could play off an SD card)...

that'd be a cluttered dashboard

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UK people out there: What exactly is "washing-up liquid"? is it just dish soap?

(and Riven is probably one of the best games of its era, if not one of the best of all time)

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did you know: the PS1 had a buuunch of games that came on multiple disks, from Xenogears's two disks, Final Fantasy 7 on three, Final Fantasy 9 on four disks... but there were games that came on even more disks than that! We recently (about a month ago) picked up a copy of Riven on PS1 for the sheer novelty of having a game on _five_ disks--we'd previously thought that nothing had ever been released for the system on more than four.

I kind of want a curta calculator but holy crap they're expensive

kind of jealous of the europeans and their SCART connectors. one connector for full component video plus audio, instead of having to deal with three or five RCA plugs whenever we want to swap between the PS2 and the Wii

it's always weird seeing new things that are different because it's just like, we've always taken it for granted that this is pronounced like this and then someone pronounces it like that and it seems strange and remarkable

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