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mhalachai:

ultrafacts:

“The Trojan room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world’s first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the Trojan Room, within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee room by providing a live picture of the state of the coffee pot. The camera was installed on a local network in 1991 using a video capture card on an Acorn Archimedes. Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote the client software and Paul Jardetzky wrote the server.

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I have worked with engineers and computer scientists of all stripes, and I guarantee that more advancements in technology have been made out of sheer laziness than for any other reason.

Obligatory link to the history of the Carnegie-Mellon Coke machine.

Truly, a noble cause.

This is why laziness is one of the three principle virtues of an engineer, the other two being hubris and impatience

jottingprosaist:

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anarcho-reformist:

dabblingindissent:

somuchforthetolerantleft:

corporations have effectively co-opted pride. as such, i am proposing that we all move over to sloth and have gay sloth parades.

just clog the main thoroughfares of every major city for weeks as lgbt folk camp out in the slowest parades ever

Do y’all even know the seven deadly sins? One of them is WRATH! Are you really going to pass up the opportunity for Gay Wrath parades??

too much effort

gay slumber parties? GAY and SLEEP? MY TWO FAVOURITE THINGS TOGETHER AT LAST.