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Bone2pick said:
Come back, brother. The Emperor protects... :)
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When I say I'm "not really in it", I only mean I stopped reading the novels, writing fan fiction and making fan art, collecting and painting minis etc. We're just talking about a lesser degree of obsession. I'll still absoloutely binge hours of lore videos while doing chores, play some of the video games, and I simply love the meme culture. I do wanna start painting again, but don't really have the space and disposable income to collect huge armies. Maybe I'll treat myself to a squad one of these days.
 
My name is scrambler because that's how I feel a lot of the time. My icon is one of my favorite side characters from the manhwa Tower of God.
 
I think I can join the chorus of random 40k fans here...

My profile pic, being Warhammer related, is a member of the Mordian Iron Guard, a decently obscure subfaction of the Imperial Guard whose models have since been forgotten and left to die. I'm a rather young fan all things considered, and I feel as if I've stepped into the ruins of a once-great civilisation long past its golden age. I do write fanfics and draw fan art still, though for my own personal amusement and nothing else.

Meanwhile my username is not 40k-related and is simply a reference to the best cooking tool: the balloon whisk. Many an excellent scrambled egg has been made with this magical utensil.
 
I didn't want to be an old crone anymore so I had some work done...

Seriously, though, this is Hedy Lamarr, who invented a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system, laying the foundation for modern wireless communication technologies like Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Yay to female scientists!
 
Louanne Learning said:
I didn't want to be an old crone anymore so I had some work done...

Seriously, though, this is Hedy Lamarr, who invented a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system, laying the foundation for modern wireless communication technologies like Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Yay to female scientists!
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Yep. And also film star and total hottie ... :) ... that the US Navy underestimated, and told to sell war bonds, because of her "film star" status.

Cheers to Hedy Lamarr! :) And jeers to the US Navy! *BOO!* =P

"... And that's HEDLEY!" ;)
 
It's incredible that Lamarr had disciplined reasoning without a formal education in science or engineering. An article I found said her dad would take her on walks and discuss the inner workings of machinery.

My dad did the same for me. He would find a gear set or a small pump or something and talk to me about what must be going on inside from observing its operations. I was a lucky, lucky kid and I think of my dad every day.
 
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Fun facts: Hedy Lamarr filed a $10 million lawsuit against Warner Bros., claiming that the running parody of her name ("Hedley Lamarr") in the Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" infringed her right to privacy.

Brooks said he was flattered by this attention, and a reference to suing Hedy Lamarr was written into the film.

This reference (to suing Hedy) was from Harvey Korman's first day on the set and, ironically, made a comedic reference to what was at that point a non-existent lawsuit. The studio settled out of court for a small sum and an apology for “almost using her name." Brooks said that Lamarr "never got the joke."

Also, Buster Keaton played a character named Peter Hedley Lamar in "General Nuisance" (1941). No word as to whether Lamarr sued in that instance exists.

Harvey Korman was perfect in this role, and everyone else was fabulous in theirs. :)
 
Watson and Crick made one passing reference to Franklin in the Nature article that led to their Nobel, which is shameful. Most folks also don't realize there were three recipients of the Physiology Nobel in 1962, not just Watson and Crick. Maurice Wilkins was on Franklin's staff at King's College and shared the prize.

I like to think Franklin would have been named, too, but she died of cancer, likely due to x-ray exposure from the x-ray diffraction images she used in her research.

Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.
 
Kerrin said:
Old forum: "GenericSNRI" because I was taking a lot of those at the time / Dahlia Hawthorne because she's a druggie.

New forum: "Kerrin" because I couldn't think of anything better / Dahlia still because why not. :P
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True story, that username nearly got you banned as a spammer on the old forum because you joined right in the middle of us getting clobbered by tonnes of buy generic Viagra, buy generic Ciallis, buy generic flunitrazepam bots... iirc we had the ban hammer locked and loaded and i had a hoof trembling on the fire button when you made your first post and we said 'no, stand down, this one's a friendly'
 
big soft moose said:
True story, that username nearly got you banned as a spammer on the old forum because you joined right in the middle of us getting clobbered by tonnes of buy generic Viagra, buy generic Ciallis, buy generic flunitrazepam bots... iirc we had the ban hammer locked and loaded and i had a hoof trembling on the fire button when you made your first post and we said 'no, stand down, this one's a friendly'
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I can't stop laughing. :ROFLMAO: No that username was a real and very unfortunate insight into what I was going through at the time but it's over now.
 
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