It’s better than bad! It’s GOOD!
Years ago I once wrote a program to view logs from a system I worked on. I used the ren and stimpy log as the icon for the file extension. It still makes me chuckle on the rare occasions I work on that system…
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It’s better than bad! It’s GOOD!
Years ago I once wrote a program to view logs from a system I worked on. I used the ren and stimpy log as the icon for the file extension. It still makes me chuckle on the rare occasions I work on that system…
It rolls down stairs, and even the Klingons dog!
That was a delightful 1.5 seconds of nostalgia.
By Blammo!
It’s better then bad, it’s good.
It’s better than bad.
It's good!
Picard is a beast. That log must weigh almost a hundred pounds.
That’s the supplemental one. Main one’s offscreen.
Wow, what a throwback
It’s log, log, log.
Did anyone else just hear the twin peaks theme music in their heads?
“Who’s the guy in the back with the captain’s insignia and the log?” “We call him the Log Captain.”
I get this reference.
Morning, wood!
1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 10 months ago
That kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.
OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll be damned:
www.etymonline.com/word/log
randomuser38529@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh my log FTFY
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 9 months ago
See also: knot (literally how many knots in the rope were pulled overboard by said log in a given time).
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 9 months ago
TIL