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I like that ancient didactic inscriptions of an alphabet are called "abacedaria" just because that's abcd with vowels and a latin ending stuck on it

the sound that a laserdisc player makes is quite scary

it sounds like the disc is going to fly apart or something

I like how DVD originally stood for digital video disc and then people started using it for non-video things and they tried to rename it digital versatile disc but all they really did was make it end up not standing for anything

i wonder how many times this message has been converted between electrical and optical signals by the time it reaches the person reading it

re: Tech problems, cleaning up our TV space 

For the devices being plugged into the TV, we ended up getting some little switches. Hopefully they help.

I'm not so sure about the component/composite one because I don't know how our TV determines whether it needs to use the component or composite decoder.

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re: Tech problems, cleaning up our TV space 

Additionally, this gives us:

1 TV
1 SNES
1 PS2
1 Wii
1 X360
1 Wii U
1 Wii U gamepad charger
1 Nintendo Switch dock
1 PS3
(also 1 bug zapper because that was the best place to put it)

that all need to be plugged into a power outlet in the TV area. Of these, there are two that require extra space for a wall wart: the Switch dock and the SNES.

Currently, all of these are plugged into one of two power strips that are chained off each other. We just ordered today a 12-outlet power strip to hopefully help with this mess.

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Tech problems, cleaning up our TV space 

So, our TV has:
2 HDMI inputs
1 VGA input
1 F-connector for RF input
1 combined component/composite input

Things we want to connect to our TV:

1 computer (HDMI)
1 SNES (composite)
1 PS2 (component)
1 Wii (component)
1 PS3 (HDMI)
1 Wii u (HDMI)
1 Xbox 360 (HDMI)
1 Nintendo Switch (HDMI)

...you can see the problem here

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"You like to watch NFL? What's so exciting about Newfoundland?"

this is not doing a good job of being pieces we've heard and didn't know the name of because everything so far we either don't recognise or already do know the name of

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maybe these are more obscure to most people than to us but I think most people know moonlight sonata, come on

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and then much less obscure, with Clair de Lune, Gymnopedie No. 1, and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

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okay to be fair they got more obscure shortly after that

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*clicks a video of "100 songs you've heard and didn't know the name of"*

*first three are Flight of the Bumblebee, Für Elise, and Rondo Alla Turca*

I kind of think you need to pick some slightly more obscure ones than that

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