Infinite Trump

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A few personal favorites.

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/fissure-opens-in-chess-ai-scen.html\

http://boingboing.net/features/nomenludi.html

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That’s the take away from the classic Animaniac’s song.

I caught that, but then just listen a bit and it morphs into “Is he dead?”

My brain is awesome at making patterns out of white noise. Washing machines, vacuums fans, etc - If there is a hint of a pattern I can hear them “talk” to me. I used to swear I could hear music some times laying in bed. Especially with my left ear muffled. But then I realized the song was an Aerosmith song I didn’t know all the words to and it kept looping the parts I did know.

And then there is a phenomenon, and I forget what it is called, where you can hear gibberish, but then if someone tells you what it is supposed to day, replaying that gibberish makes you hear that phrase. You can’t unhear it and hear gibberish again.

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Which one?

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Ain’t you edgy
Meanwhile, we’re all fucked

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Reminds me of the day Kilroy lost his mind.

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The Yakko’s Universe song I posted above.

At the end after making you feel small:
Though we don’t know how it got here
We’re an important part here
It’s a big universe and it’s ours!

Although I later found out they had originally put more nihilist lyrics.

You might think that you’re essential
Try inconsequential
It’s a small world after all!

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Why???

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Yeah, I get that now; but when I originally replied, your vid wasn’t showing up for me.

Weird.

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Depends how fast you replied, I first posted and forgot the paste the link. Or sometimes youtube videos don’t seem to show up until you refresh.

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If I’m actually sitting at my work station at looking directly at the active window, I tend to reply pretty quickly.

If I get a project to work on it may take me a while to respond.

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(quite a few actually)

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*lolz

Yep, he left a few out; not to mention that nations’ names can change over time.

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That’s apophenia/pareidolia. Sometimes it really is someone playing music in a distant room though; you can test it by trying to control it – try to hear a particular earworm and if it is pareidolia you’ll hear that. I get it all the time from sleep deprivation or when I used to come off of multi-day benders.

ETA: And that Yakko number is obviously an homage to / ripoff of

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Idle updated it recently.

Fun fact they fudged some numbers that were current at the time to match the meter and rhyme and they turned out to be more accurate.

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Comedy competes with horror.

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It’s one thing to be able to recite the countries of the world (which the voice actor of Yakko can still do on request) but I remember being more impressed as a child that he was able to point to them all with his stick as he did it.

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I would very much like to understand your response, but I’m afraid I’ve no idea what it connects to :smile:

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Sorry about that, it doesn’t actually make sense that I replied to your comment with this information. It was about the awesome geography skills in this clip;

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Wow

Very wow!

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