Yeah, drinking from the hose was a lot less problematic than just breathing the air, which was full of tetraethyl lead.
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I'm pretty sure gnutrino was making a different, second joke. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
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I think my top pick has to be Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot. I gather it's pretty well known in Germany, but in the US pretty much no one has heard of it.
It's a sci-fi comedy, based loosely on The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem, who is one of my favorite authors. The first season was all web episodes made on a shoestring budget; the spaceship is just the main actor's apartment for the interior, and a coffee press for the exterior. There's also a lot of use of puppets and amusing costumes. It's just incredibly creative. The stories involve things like Tichy's navigation system malfunctioning, so he accelerates out of control around a gravitational anomaly and starts experiencing time slips. Which could be kind of convenient, because fixing the navigation is a two-person task, but the first time his future self asks for his help he thinks it's a dream, and the second time he knows it's real but won't help because if they actually got it fixed then obviously his future self wouldn't still be coming back in time to get his help, so what's the point? etc. I know Lem isn't the best-known sci fi writer these days, but it's criminal that this show hasn't gotten more attention.
I think the choice of a hospital in particular may have been influenced by the 1994 show Riget, directed by Lars von Trier, which was brought to English-speaking countries under the name The Kingdom (not to be confused with the 2014 show about MMA fighters someone else mentioned in a thread here). It's a horror show set in a hospital, and also kind of a soap opera, and also it's kind of supposed to be funny sometimes? That show...I guess I felt like it tried very hard, but also that conspicuous effort isn't a good look for something that's supposed to be unsettling. Which is kinda the feeling that Garth Marenghi's Dark Place takes the piss out of so effectively. I dunno, maybe it's my imagination, but I can't help but see them as connected.
Oh, I only minored in math, I'm no expert either! Yeah, your explanation was really fine, I just thought the "sum of a geometric series" thing might ring a bell for some readers.
Yeah, that's basically how I remember it, though it's not always stats--the terms are used in other fields of math as well. A first calculus class typically includes a proof that the limit of the sum of an infinite geometric series (a + ar + ar^2 + ar^3 + ...) tends towards a/(1-r) where a is the first term and r is the ratio of successive terms, provided that -1 < r < 1. (Otherwise the series diverges and the limit isn't defined.)
It's so frustrating. I'm planning to keep my current phone working for a couple more years if possible, but after that I really have no idea what I'll do. Kinda hoping one of the other Linux phone initiatives gets going more by then.
Yeah, it's a total fascist shitshow here right now.