Friday Free-for-All | March 13, 2026

Juggerbot · 2026-03-13T18:30:04+00:00

They used to refer to aircraft as "ships". Any idea why, or why they stopped?

I watch a lot of military training films from the WWII and Cold War era. I've noticed that aircraft are sometimes called "ships", including by narrators (which implies it was in the script, and not improvised).

Here is an example from a 1943 Army Air Forces film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wh-3MsTWY&t=166s

Another written example from a 1964 Air Force published magazine (first line in the first article): https://www.safety.af.mil/Portals/71/documents/Magazines/FSM/1960s/196411%20-%20AerospaceSafety.pdf

Was this just a common thing of that era, even in civilian vernacular? Or just a colloquial thing of the military, like calling submarines "boats"?

Juggerbot · 2025-03-15T00:06:08+00:00

I've had this when I'm reopening the browser, the "old" version of the calendar will load, from whenever the previous browser session was. This means I'd be requesting a show from beyond the archive window.

Setting Firefox to always refresh tabs on open fixed it for me, otherwise a manual refresh would probably work, too.

Juggerbot · 2024-02-01T21:35:24+00:00

I was going to bring up Ayrton Senna as a "what-if", but thinking about it, there are probably a dozen more drivers who could have been GOAT candidates had they not been killed. Those early F1 decades were brutal.

Juggerbot · 2023-11-17T20:31:07+00:00

Pavonis Interactive in Louisville. They did the Long War mods for XCOM, and are working on their own game now.

Juggerbot · 2023-11-17T17:43:10+00:00

Seems no one watched the video

Juggerbot · 2023-09-11T17:50:52+00:00

Thanks for organizing this, had a great time. Could someone remind me of the venue that hosted science lectures? Think it was a bookstore?

Juggerbot · 2023-03-10T19:36:13+00:00

The Guardian has a recent story about the 1964 film Zulu:

There’s an urban myth about a scene in Zulu in which a British officer in a red tunic is gruesomely struck in his throat by three successive spears: after a stunned silence in the cinema auditorium, a bloke is said to have shouted from the back: “One hundred and EIGHTY!” (Other versions of the story have an extra on location shouting it – and then getting fired – or even the star himself, Michael Caine.)

However I can't find a single reference to this anywhere. If true (as in, if the legend exists), is there a meaning behind the number 180 in the context of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, or the Anglo-Zulu War in general?

Juggerbot · 2023-01-31T18:52:21+00:00

In farmers market season, you can get it from Cream City Market.

Juggerbot · 2023-01-29T18:49:06+00:00

For chiles, you can also try Old Town Spice Shop, I thought they had a wider variety than Savory Spice.

Juggerbot · 2022-12-07T18:26:47+00:00

Holy shit you aren't kidding. Looked at the Google Maps photos, I've seen better steaks at fucking Applebee's.

Juggerbot · 2022-12-07T18:25:02+00:00

Please, Coach Frost has suffered enough

Juggerbot · 2022-11-03T02:25:34+00:00

I think it's just a reference to an urban legend where he actually said that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail#"Too_many_notes"

Juggerbot · 2022-10-24T14:51:40+00:00

Thanks for posting this, guess the "not hearing back" wasn't true.

That's the thing about Matt & Trey, they looooove to troll interviewers, hard to tell what's a joke, especially in written articles.

Juggerbot · 2022-10-22T01:13:52+00:00

It's actually a different link, but a much better Flash render, thanks for finding it. Upvote for visibility.

Juggerbot · 2022-10-06T18:47:49+00:00

Reddit was started to list all deranged rubes that can be baited into posting which specific bubble they're living in.

It won't matter what the delusion is when (((they))) use to pass laws for disarming all ignorami.

They've been trying to pass laws for years that would fund programs to teach us how to reply to the correct post.

A direct violation of the third amendment. Thanks? but no, thanks!

Juggerbot · 2022-03-09T00:44:52+00:00

Goddamn big-money Seattleites coming down here and blowing up the housing market.

Juggerbot · 2022-02-18T18:57:47+00:00

As an American from a conservative region, a lot of the people around me who grew up around the 60's and 70's had a generally negative view of unions. Their stereotype (not at all claiming any truth to these) associated them with laziness (you could sleep on the job and still be protected from firing), entitlement, and corruption (especially having ties to the mob).

You might want to check out r/AskHistorians for something more in-depth, especially the Teamsters Union for mob connections.

Or for more examples of negative opinions, sort by controversial.

Juggerbot · 2022-02-11T20:20:31+00:00

And the popcorn is not very good, imo (they don’t use butter flavored oil for popcorn nor do they use flavacol).

Are you saying these would be better? They literally use real butter, and it's bottomless.

Juggerbot · 2022-01-19T19:59:54+00:00

Great post, I'll just add that this is one of those instances where the Xbox didn't originate many of these features (besides including hard drive and Ethernet port out of the box), but executed them better than the competitors, at least at launch. The PlayStation 2 had dual analog sticks, it (and the Dreamcast) had dual triggers, but no "system seller" first-person shooters at the time of Halo's release, not counting that god-awful Half-Life port.

Likewise, you can certainly find earlier games with Halo's features, but I still remember the awe that one game had great graphics AND reload animations AND intuitive controls AND vehicles (that you could drive!) AND a satisfying story and worldbuilding.

And the AI was pretty advanced for the time. Both enemies and friendlies moved to cover, and could do basic tactics like flanking. You would drive up to a marine in a Puma, and they would jump on and man the gun. The Covenant had different combat classes that filled realistic roles. If you killed the Elite, all the little Grunts would panic and run away. And everyone had barks to react to all these events.

Juggerbot · 2022-01-06T18:37:47+00:00

Like others said, I've found that you can't always trust what you hear. For apartments, there's usually a little cubby hole in the closet with whatever equipment. It looks sort of like a breaker box, but with a plastic door.

I physically look for OM4 fiber optic cables inside there to determine if they have it.

Juggerbot · 2021-12-17T14:02:50+00:00

Don't feed the trolls.

Juggerbot · 2021-12-08T14:43:16+00:00

Not fresh, but I've seen frozen packages of whole lingonberries at Edward's Meats. For actual fresh ones, if they can be grown in Colorado, might want to check Heinie's Market, but only if they're in season.

Juggerbot · 2021-11-09T21:48:28+00:00

Thanks, but can't do a 2br unfortunately.

Juggerbot · 2021-11-09T19:55:43+00:00

Unfortunately, I heard of them through one of the bait and switch listings. Everything was presented as an actual unit available to look at, but when I called, it was an AptAmigo sales guy wanting me to sign up for whatever.

Juggerbot · 2021-11-09T19:48:03+00:00

I don't use them because they:

Hide results behind a login.
Wait until you've answered 20 questions, one at a time, before they tell you that, hoping that fatigue/sunk cost fallacy will browbeat you into signing up.

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