so we bought it from Computer House as opposed to one of the major retailers, which meant when it died, it had to go back to Germany or something to be fixed. So I was left with no floppy , and so I had a cassette deck, which was the best you could do at the time, and so I was writing small things, and I had a machine language monitor that you could load from cassette. It didn't have an assembler built in, but it had a disassembler, so you could enter the op codes in 6502 in hex, and if you were careful about planning, you'd be able to write
I just made it-- the result was it was really, it was fun. It was sloppy and floppy , and it was fun to watch. Turns out hand clapping is not fun to watch, but you can make it fun to watch.
You have slits in your nostril so you get big, giant nose-fulls of air. You have floppy ears to kick up more scent. So everything for you is about smelling.
We were reflecting before the start that-- you know, when you were in school in the '90s-- in college for example, in the early '90s, e-mail was just getting going. We had a floppy disk. We had floppy disks.
We had a floppy disk. We had floppy disks. We were writing papers with typewriters.
Many of us would say that we love our parents. They create floppy ears, blotchy-colored coats, coats of different textures, curled tails, passive personalities.
All writers and readers knew that human beings had broad identities, not narrow ones. What's a floppy disk?
broccoli and maybe that's where they'd been at some point. But as he handed them to me, I understood that where they were supposed to be now was wrapped around each two floppy leg of my two floppy cotton gym shorts. I fingered them, looked strangely at them, looked strangely at him trying to work some self pity and pleading into my expression and get a pass. He didn't waver. And so I bet to his will, or rather, snapped to it and spent the next 45 minutes stalking La Roman like a human broccoli; each thigh banded in blue.
future scholars, or whatever the hell I was doing. And I copied my blank floppy onto my data floppy . So that was my first experience with data management.
And at that time in 1991-- since we're here talking about digitalization and Google and all that-- computers were very new. At that time there was a floppy disk. The 5 and 1/2 floppy disk.
At that time there was a floppy disk. The 5 and 1/2 floppy disk. And in 1991, every parent wanted their kids to be a computer scientist.
and also from reading Darwin's famous book about domestication-- he knew that many domesticated animals share a whole suite of characteristics. So they tend to have things like floppy ears and curly tails. They also tend to have sort of juvenilized body and facial features compared to their wild ancestors.
Not every domesticated animal has every one of those characteristics, but most have many of those characteristics, so much so that that whole thing-- the floppy ears, the curly tails, the low stress hormone-- all that is referred to today as the domestication syndrome. And Belyaev thought about this, and he thought, you know, this is really weird because our ancestors domesticated species
The problem is, when she moves the one-week-old developing embryos from one uterus to another, she knows who is who. changes we talked about-- the floppy ears, the curly tails, and so on.
That sort of sounds like the voice I've been doing my whole life since I was a little girl. And this character had like big floppy lips and a round head, and so I just sort of started doing oh, you know, Chuckie, I'm not sure I like that. And then I auditioned for that, and then I booked Tommy Pickles.
it was, that's what really got me to call her and get me out of there. I imagined her in a floppy sun hat, long sun dress, catching on her knees, thong sandals on her pedicured feet.
And from her, I really understood what it takes to be an educator. I saw her learn the floppy disk drive to the hard scan disk drive to zip drive to flash drives. She's constantly had to educate herself.
I talk now about Masterclass.com, Linda.com, Skillshare, or Russian .. And three-in-five format floppy disks.
I talk now about Masterclass.com, Linda.com, Skillshare, or Russian .. We were bringing the photos on the floppy disks from internet cafes to house, to watch it, to examine it, to try to understand how it's done.
I should say, I don't really mean server. They were actually arriving in floppy disks, if you can believe it or not. And people didn't really know how to sort them, let alone preserve them and figure out what there was that needed to be saved.
He said, why don't we build a system in this area? And this was an era when floppy disks genuinely were floppy . And this is what the system looked like, 5.25 floppy disks, two of them.
And then you could record back onto the floppy disk the numbers that you had made and sold.
And it was on the IBM PC with floppy disks.
This is a 5 and 1/4 inch floppy disk.
Now you're the doctor. I was like I need to use a floppy disk. So it strikes me that there was a huge pivot there over the last 20 or so years.
Just let the belly get completely soft and open and floppy .
elliptical. They wanted to pose, hence the mood lighting, preen, hence the avoidance of perspiration and give their fellow fitness enthusiasts a gander at the family jewels. That last impulse explained not only the policy on floppy shorts, but also a sign posted in the men's locker room. It stressed that it was vietato to shower with the door in front of your individual stall open."
So here's the deal about foxes and their ears. In the wild, foxes do have floppy ears till they're about six weeks old. And then their ears shoot ramrod straight the way that you might imagine a fox in the wild.
Well, at six weeks, Dream's ears were still floppy . Two months, they were still floppy . Three months, they were still floppy .
Two months, they were still floppy . Three months, they were still floppy . Four months, they were still floppy .
Three months, they were still floppy . Four months, they were still floppy . Lyudmila calls Belyaev out there, and Belyaev looks at Dream, turns around, and asks Lyudmila, what kind of wonder is this?
that you can put under a microscope and read rather than on floppy disks or hard disks or whatever, was because we realized we're effectively
I mean "Maniac Mansion" on the Commodore 64 was two sides of a single density floppy disk.
And I was determined not to use one for a while, for some reason. I was like, I'm not using no floppy disk. And how far you've come.
Tell me about that machine. What did you do on the Commodore 64? - Well, the first thing I did was overheat the floppy drive on it, which was unfortunate, because it wasn't a warranty machine. My parents didn't have a lot of money, so we bought it from Computer House as opposed to one of the major retailers, which meant when it died, it had to go back to Germany or something to be fixed. So I was left
Wow. And you could actually load the program from this floppy disk.
And it went in, but then the shoe became floppy .
What would be the key ingredients in your recipe? Well, you definitely want cute, right-- maybe something with floppy ears and a curly tail that wags in anticipation whenever you're around. You'd want smart. You'd want loyal, and you'd definitely want unconditional love.
And one of those "something importants," one of those major things was this little guy right here-- Mechta, or Dream. Dream was the first of the domesticated foxes to have droopy, floppy ears. So here's the deal about foxes and their ears.
And then their ears shoot ramrod straight the way that you might imagine a fox in the wild. Well, at six weeks, Dream's ears were still floppy . Two months, they were still floppy .
One man, no more than 20, floppy brown hair-- he'd been on foot for a month.
And this was an era when floppy disks genuinely were floppy . And this is what the system looked like, 5.25 floppy disks, two of them. We wrote a book, and published it with the two disks in the back.
He's got a strong jaw, a high ovoid forehead from which his floppy auburn hair is only just slightly receding,
The company had a little office and we were, you know, copying floppy disks and mailing them out.
So yeah, so I really liked the computer and how I could, like-- you know, we liked to, for some reason, collect viruses on the floppy disk-- and those kind of-- all
Then the next thing was, I thought, well, they've now brought out a floppy disk.
Now, just everybody, people who don't know what a floppy disk is know that a floppy disk means Save.
We're going to choose the calmest, most friendly towards human foxes, breed them. We're going to do this generation after generation, see-- do we get more calmer and calmer animals, and do we begin to see floppy ears and curly tails and all the stuff in the domestication syndrome.
Lyudmila calls Belyaev out there, and Belyaev looks at Dream, turns around, and asks Lyudmila, what kind of wonder is this? Now they were seeing yet another trait in the domestication syndrome, not only curly tails, but floppy ears-- all as the result of selection on behavior and behavior alone. Belyaev used to take a slide of Mechta to talks, and when he would come back from these talks-- by this time,
Many of us would say that we love our parents. After a few generations, they got tame foxes that wag their tails, seek their humans, and have floppy ears, blotchy coats, and curly tails.