Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Not surprised Jason knows how to type an interrobang on his phone‽
And thanks to Donald Petersen below, now I can too‽
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that Torch, went with “ham” as a deity replacement and not “clam”, has he converted and replaced his emergency clams with ham?
I can’t smugly say that I got the Vonnegut reference, but I can smugly say that I did know that that symbol is called an interrobang, which seems like a word you and Torch could go down an innuendo rabbit hole on…
TBH, i’m surprised he didn’t know what an interrobang was. lol
All this discussion of buttholes makes me unconsciously kegel.
It may be because I’m 5 years old but I quite literally lol’d at the “I’ll need a dropcloth” suggestion. Will the next generation who grew up with AI find it remotely funny when a computer makes sexual references, or will it just be normal?
Also, just want to say, everyone should have a coworking relationship like Peter and Torch. I joke around all the time with both my bosses and my reports, and I can tell you within about one day of starting at a new company who’s awesome and who’s a stiff. Being productive and having fun are not mutually exclusive. Life is too short to be boring at work.
In Ham we trust.
You’re Ham damned right!
Interrobangs should be included in every typeface. They’re a tone that is commonly needing to be conveyed and the symbol itself is around 60 years old now, but what we get instead is endless dumb emojis with almost no occasion to use or that exist as needless replacement for a word as part of the tech-driven dumbing down of the population. So it goes.
Personally I’d have gone with Humpty Hump when selecting a deep cut hip hop pickle reference.
Now every Burger King bathroom is nervous.
An asterisk is not punctuation. Even if technically wrong (not looking it up) i’m prepared to argue the point
How did I not interpret the Claude logo as a tightly clenched sphincter.
All of the AI companies have asshole logos. There’s a picture of (drawn) goatse where the sphincter is depicted by the OpenAI logo
Hey man a butthole is just a butthole. If you are interpreting it as tightly clenched then that is on you and you might have some considering to do.
My company doesn’t use AI, but one of our vendors does. Every couple of weeks we have a Teams meeting with them, and they share their screen. I’m just there to run the computer and answer engineering questions, so while everyone is discussing boring stuff like purchase order numbers and warranties, I’m sitting there wondering why our vendor’s version of Excel has a butthole named Claude in the ribbon.
I’m such a Philistine, I thought the Breakfast of Champions thing was a 1970s Formula 1 reference.
Since you and Matt are the adults here in charge of shit getting done Peter,could you please figure out what is going on with the layout of the site lately and put it back as it was? Thanks
Matt’s on it!
Matt should be on Firefox on Android to get the full dog’s dinner experience.
Are you on Firefox? I am, and it’s a dog’s dinner on Windows and iOS, but the site seems to work on Chrome.
on my tablet it’s a shitshow either way,but it seemed to work on Chrome on my work computer,yes.
iPad? Chrome on my iPhone seems to be OK.
I am using Safari now,but Edge is also weird. iPad,yes.
Curiouser and curiouser. Edge works on Windows.
Edit: The top page works on Chrome and Edge, but the features pages are off. Nothing like the mess on Firefox, though.
I’m on Firefox and doing just fine… except that I’m back to the standard white background.
My laptop is on Chrome and…no.
Android phone is fine.
Jason’s phone can make an interrobang?!
PS I loved Vonnegut but haven’t read any in 25 years. My wife and I do mention the cat’s “asterisk” all the time.
PPS We also call it the “bark button,” but neither of us can remember why.
Something something “barking spider” maybe?
⸘I thought every phone can‽
Hmm. Can’t mine‽
Ah yes. Android. Instead of holding down the period button, use the ?123 button to get to the numerals and primary punctuation marks, then hold down ? in order to obtain ¿ and ‽
My favorite Sir-Mix–A-Lot video. And, yes, that did escalate quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59e20ijOpE