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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That kind of log floating behind ships was where the term log comes from. They’d throw them overboard and let them drift out over some interval and they’d mark down “log took 30 seconds to drift out to end of rope” to determine their speed.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Years ago I once wrote a program to view logs from a system I worked on. I used the ren and stimpy log as the icon for the file extension. It still makes me chuckle on the rare occasions I work on that system...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It rolls down stairs, and over the Klingons dog!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago
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    That was a delightful 1.5 seconds of nostalgia.

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    Picard is a beast. That log must weigh almost a hundred pounds.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Wow, what a throwback

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    That’s the supplemental one. Main one’s offscreen.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    It's LOG, LOG, LOG!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did anyone else just hear the twin peaks theme music in their heads?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Morning, wood!

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    I get this reference.

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