File under "I never knew THAT."

[cjsmith]

1. YouTube has videos of tardigrades.

A coworker and I have decided there is a biological classification in between "single-celled organism" and "big and complex enough we'd just call it an animal", and that classification is "you don't expect videos".

2. In emacs, type M-x dunnet. Anybody remember how to break into a VAX 11/780?

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[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

back when I was doing biology classes, I shortened taxonomy into:

goims
woims
bugs
critters

...my teachers wouldn't accept it for some reason.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

hey - no cheating :D

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, like it'd work. :-)

I've made a lot of progress, but I'm now stumped again. Hrmf.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

2. In emacs, type M-x dunnet. Anybody remember how to break into a VAX 11/780?

There were three default account/password combinations to VAX/VMS as I recall correctly, the 780 was clearly of the right era for that. (It was also the canonical "MIPS" benchmark, as I recall.)

Anyway, I'm not sure if I remember all three, but I'm going to guess:

SYSTEM / MANAGER
and
FIELD / SERVICE

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, the days of Vaxen....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Given that this was an Emacs game, I also tried rms / rms, but it didn't work. That's really too bad.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. This is a text adventure, yeah? The other classic is the movie gag where the password or whatever is written down nearby, something like that?

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Guess what's going to survive billions of years in the future, LONG after any hint of us is gone...

[from wikipedia.org]
Water bears are able to survive in extreme environments that would kill almost any other animal. They can survive temperatures close to absolute zero[4], temperatures as high as 151°C (303°F), 1,000 times more radiation than any other animal[5], nearly a decade without water, and can also survive in a vacuum like that found in space.

I'd never heard of these critters before now.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Cockroaches, too. They live for days after you remove their heads. Eventually they starve.

Kindle

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I pointed dancer44 in your direction...I seem to remember you talking about having or using a Kindle at one time...

Re: Kindle

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I don't have one, but I've probably written about the topic, because I would really like to have an electronic reader (probably the Sony) some day. My budget's not happy with that idea at the moment, but there will come a time when it is. :-)

Re: dunnet

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got past that, and now I'm wondering what the bracelet does or really how to score any points whatsoever in this game. I know how to die; shake a tree and a coconut falls on your head. :-)

PS: And how to get the paper. A clue tells me there's paper involved, but I haven't found it.

Re: dunnet

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Huh - did that. :-( I'll look again.

edit: I did something to get the paper, and I KNOW FOR SURE I tried that before and it didn't work! Hmf. Well, I have the paper. LOTS more stuff to do now! I got myself killed, so I'll start over and do some things right.