Weirdness: Round three

[Spica75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilva — The label is older than that, mind. IIRC, I first saw ads for Quicksilva games around the time the ZX Spectrum hit the shops.

I don't think those two are the same company. The info i found stated specifically that it was started in 1987, and that was active until 2004.
From the link, that's ONLY a game-company and the name was already long defunct by 1987 when it became Grandslam interactive after being Argus press software since 1984. The Quicksilva that started in 1987 was ONLY a record label, absolutely nothing to do with computers.

Quicksilva the record label was instead part of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASV_Records

"The ASV stable included the Gold, Platinum and Quicksilva series"
http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... ussian.htm

[Té Rowan]

Very certain you’re right about different companies, though ASV may have acquired the name from the game makers.

Still, a bash in the shoes to see that. Has a bloke wanting to dig out old magazines to read once again.

[Té Rowan]

Finding Cassie Claire’s original LotR “Very Secret Diaries” is still easy.
Finding Bardvahalla’s continued LotR “Very Secret Journals” is harder.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030810002618/http://www.magma.ca/~rickbard/VSJ/
The Wayback thingy has all but the first (Gimli, pt.2).

https://web.archive.org/web/20050404212056/http://www.bardawill.com/VSJ/
A few PotC VSJournals here, but the LotR VSJs were… deleted… during the move to bardawill.com.

[Té Rowan]

http://www.svtarot.com — Yes, the Silicon Valley Tarot is still around, at least the Internet version.

[Té Rowan]

https://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=3185

The battle goes to whoever catches Murphy's attention the least.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

That's all very well - but are you a Turtle?

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2019/10/18/japanese-internet-thanks-the-underground-temple-that-siphoned-off-typhoon-hagibis-torrent/

Tokyo's huge 'underground temple' complex isn't just a badass backdrop for music videos.

[Neko-]

Hmm... Wasn't even aware they had something like that. Pretty cool.

[Spica75]

https://soranews24.com/2019/10/18/japanese-internet-thanks-the-underground-temple-that-siphoned-off-typhoon-hagibis-torrent/

Tokyo's huge 'underground temple' complex isn't just a badass backdrop for music videos.

Huh, never heard of it before, and yet i recognise it instantly because it was used as a location for one episode of To aru kagaku no Accelerator, just months ago.

[Té Rowan]

https://web.archive.org/web/20110815091754/http://e-pix.com/CPUWARS/index.html — CPU Wars
That's assuming, of course, that anyone is still interested in the battle between IPM (Impossible to Program Machines) and HEC (Human-Engineered Computers).

[Té Rowan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_SI_base_units

If this received any media attention, it whooshed past me.

[Spica75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_SI_base_units

If this received any media attention, it whooshed past me.

Nope, definitely not, i've completely missed it as well. Not seen or heard even the tiniest peep.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Anent CPU wars, I remember reading Goldilocks for Cobol. It was OK, but I liked the Fortran version better. Read it in the Twilight Zine at MIT, in the early 60s.

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/download/SosMsPrinsendamOctober41980/prinsendam_sos.mp3 — The OHSHIT! signal followed by SOS de PJTA.
https://archive.org/details/SosMsPrinsendamOctober41980
The cruise ship Prinsendam was on fire in the Alaskan Gulf.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/mums-angry-rant-at-naked-dad-in-male-change-room-backfires/news-story/f6354aed29ffcd57d01c1151e7515e3c
Shock! Horror! Probe! Woman sees naked man in men's changing room!

Reminds me of a time when a small group of girls stormed the boys' showers at school. What a gyp for them, I was the only bloke showering.