Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Avro Arrow]

Monkeys are fiddling with random controls. Yesterday season 1 of DISC, or some episode, simply disappeared from P+ for a while, then just as suddenly returned.

Every once in a while, the simulation needs to reset.

 

[Velocity]

Today would have been my 47th wedding anniversary.

 

[JD]

are the living in the south?

Didn't watch the series, so I don't know where they were.

They lived in Malibu.

 

[Oddish]

Ok, not the south. Does half a man turn into three-quarters of one at a earlier/later age in Malibu?

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Today would have been my 47th wedding anniversary.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the never-ending debate surrounding the pronunciation of GIF.

Apologies to Steve Wilhite, but I don't think I'll ever stop pronouncing it "gif", with the hard-g.

And look, the internet has made GIFs about it, because of course!

Or, well, this is a Star Trek board, so...

Yes, I picked ones for my preferred pronunciation, but I'm not trying to sway you if you prefer the other way. There are plenty of GIFs out there for the "jif" pronunciation too.

 

[Oddish]

Jif is a peanut butter.

 

[Pondwater]

I’m a party girl.

 

[oberth]

I’m a party girl.

are you melting during a hot party?

 

[JD]

Ok, not the south. Does half a man turn into three-quarters of one at a earlier/later age in Malibu?

This brings up something I've been wondering about. When they do a prequel with a different actor from the original, at what point do they go from being the prequel actor to being the original actor? So with the Middle Earth movies, when would Bilbo go from being Martin Freeman to being Ian Holm, or with Sheldon Cooper, when does he go from being Ian Armitage to being Jim Parsons? The younger kids in Young Sheldon are getting into the teens, so if we think about realistically they should be reaching a point where they're looking more like the adult actors.

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the never-ending debate surrounding the pronunciation of GIF.

Apologies to Steve Wilhite, but I don't think I'll ever stop pronouncing it "gif", with the hard-g.

And look, the internet has made GIFs about it, because of course!

Or, well, this is a Star Trek board, so...

Yes, I picked ones for my preferred pronunciation, but I'm not trying to sway you if you prefer the other way. There are plenty of GIFs out there for the "jif" pronunciation too.

I'll confess, I say if Jif.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the never-ending debate surrounding the pronunciation of GIF.

Apologies to Steve Wilhite, but I don't think I'll ever stop pronouncing it "gif", with the hard-g.

And look, the internet has made GIFs about it, because of course!

Or, well, this is a Star Trek board, so...

Yes, I picked ones for my preferred pronunciation, but I'm not trying to sway you if you prefer the other way. There are plenty of GIFs out there for the "jif" pronunciation too.

 

[oberth]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the never-ending debate surrounding the pronunciation of GIF.

Apologies to Steve Wilhite, but I don't think I'll ever stop pronouncing it "gif", with the hard-g.

And look, the internet has made GIFs about it, because of course!

Or, well, this is a Star Trek board, so...

Yes, I picked ones for my preferred pronunciation, but I'm not trying to sway you if you prefer the other way. There are plenty of GIFs out there for the "jif" pronunciation too.

i never heard jif (not only in germany where this problem just doesn't exist)

 

[somebuddyX]

It reminds me of gigawatts and jigowatts.

 

[scotpens]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the never-ending debate surrounding the pronunciation of GIF.

Apologies to Steve Wilhite, but I don't think I'll ever stop pronouncing it "gif", with the hard-g.

GIF is an acronym for "Graphics Interchange Format." "Graphics" is pronounced with a hard G. Therefore "GIF" is pronounced with a hard G. Case closed.

 

[oberth]

GIF is an acronym for "Graphics Interchange Format." "Graphics" is pronounced with a hard G. Therefore "GIF" is pronounced with a hard G. Case closed.

just like (to) give (we pronounce it quite like that)

i only do that to open a new front as to how to properly slaughter that innocent vowel

 

[Kor]

I say "Gee Eye Eff." For consistency with such file formats as "Pee Dee Eff" and "Pee Enn Gee."



Kor

 

[Mojochi]

GIF is an acronym for "Graphics Interchange Format." "Graphics" is pronounced with a hard G. Therefore "GIF" is pronounced with a hard G. Case closed.

By that argument, scuba divers should be pronouncing scuba so it rhymes with Bubba, because the U is for underwater. lol

 

[oberth]

I say "Gee Eye Eff." For consistency with such file formats as "Pee Dee Eff" and "Pee Enn Gee."



Kor

if you wouldn't spell out single letters with pdf you'd break your tongue - no necessasity to do that with a *.give or a *.doc (you spell them out, too?)

By that argument, scuba divers should be pronouncing scuba so it rhymes with Bubba, because the U is for underwater. lol

i really need your advice on the mim 23 then

 

[Mojochi]

i really need your advice on the mim 23 then

I advocate for a free-for-all. Say acronyms however you like imho. We should be thinking of them less as words anyhow, & remembering they're an initialism

Besides, I didn't even know that one until now

 

[Mojochi]

if you wouldn't spell out single letters with pdf you'd break your tongue - no necessasity to do that with a *.give or a *.doc (you spell them out, too?

But we don't say CIA like a word. It's really up for grabs this whole thing lol