Order number 67 was called out, nobody freaked out or did any hand gestures. Nature is healing.

Technology can be great but it is funny to see a restaurant grind to a halt because the QR code menu website they use doesn't work.

EP. 196 HIGHLIGHT: Buying a newspaper you can't read. Featuring Davina Bentley, Ólafur Waage and Stuart Laws. youtu.be/S_Oei_vhTe0 Full episode: lateralcast.com/episodes/196

Why eat 24 rings? youtu.be/MHtex8KtNKg?...

The building with a 'goal' in it. youtu.be/YH2rEzz0xro?...

"Verify your age" 1 on the beeper meant call home, 2 meant dinner soon. and for the icelanders in the audience, Grandpa was young.

Text message from my airline: "Your gate has changed, it is no longer E5, please go to gate E5 instead. Your gate is E5" Dear reader, it was never E5 and is not E5.

I don't remember that Final Destination scene. (pillar is hiding an 's')

A digital photo is just a collection of 0s and 1s, which is just a really really big number. Which means that somewhere on the infinite number line is a photo of you.

I've been watching some Jackass interviews where they talk about their old stunts and it's funny how the one they usually react to the worst is the paper cut one. All of these gross things and injuries and the one they make a face and still think is bad to this day is paper cuts.

What is this in my neighbors yard? [enhance] Huh, apparently Trolls also support Norway.

I've been enjoying playing Prodeus, if you want a fun boomer shooter then I recommend But what is this? Wanna load your save? You press start, skip login to pronet, press campaign, press the campaign, press continue on the campaign, click to load the save, btw which just loads the level selection

Everything has an app now. I just had a plumber over, he told me that if I want, I could have an app for my sink. No.

My parents are visiting, which is nice. My mom found some stuff of mine she thought would look nice hung up on the wall. What did she hang up you might ask? My YouTube 100k sub award. What did she not hang up and actually put into a drawer? My University Degree... Thanks mom.

Why K-pop idols count on their fingers www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvfU...

Wow, so much layoff at id Software. Imagine if Romero and Carmack suddenly start a company called Ego with all of the old id staff and announce their new game called Gloom?

I spent all this time putting in drawers in my shelves but I never use them because I need stuff visible in front of me or it stops existing.

This Norway team is great, but what is this 3 meter tall tree trunk that is roaming near the opponent goal line? He should get the ball someday.

Dear Game Devs. Before the game starts you should allow me to adjust the volume. Because JEEBUS I think I woke up the entire neighborhood.

Example of "appeal to authority" or "the halo effect" ? Easy. At university people would sometimes ask me for my class notes. They were not good notes, trust me, but I wrote them in LaTeX... People wanted my notes because they looked like science papers (until they learned they were bad).

Not sure what Gen you fit into? I have an easy quiz for you. What celebrity name did the kids in your school scratch into the desks. If it was "Kurt Cobain" then you need to get a physical evaluation soon.

Tomorrow will be "Oh so quiet" because there's a 0% chance of the Icelandic singer Björk.

Unusual uses for a stethoscope www.youtube.com/watch?v=T511...

Quick question. If I ask "Why are you working at 3am?", does that mean I knew they were working beforehand or does it mean I didn't know and I'm surprised by the situation? Because the amount of comments I've gotten on the lawnmower video saying "don't run it at night" confuses me.

Late Night Lawnmowing youtube.com/shorts/R4iG9...

The upside-down advert www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrjk...

When you find out you're in the close friends list of a mutual you haven't talked with in a long time.

"How the community and Blizzard are handling Classic+ needs to be studied" No... no we don't. Because this is a classic (hah) case of "The only ice cream flavor a very large group of people can agree on buying for everybody is Vanilla" Which leaves most people unhappy with the whole situation.

Radiator and Oven are the same word in Icelandic "Ofn" Which I thought wouldn't be a problem, but the number of times I have told someone "It's cold, I need to turn up the oven" is too high.

How do I know if an online store is lying to me? Easy, if they promise next day delivery. I live in Norway, I have never witnessed a delivery that takes less than 4 days.

Why is (almost) every single spice rack/tray 3d print model assuming that I own spice containers that are exactly the same size No shade but what is this? Spices come in so many different variations, it's not always refill bags (no need to send me suggestions btw, I found a generic kitchen shelf)

"What do you think about [new tech thing]?" Me: "Are tech bros a bit too excited about it?" "Yeah" Me: "Let me know when they're tired of it" "When will that be?" Me: "When the tech is boring and useful"

Someone should make a daily game called "Name that font" where 20% of the time it's just Arial again.

Recently saw the Backrooms movie As a movie from a young director being based on YouTube horror shorts about the creepy feeling of liminal spaces, it's an absolute excellent thing But as a horror movie for someone that doesn't find these liminal spaces scary? It's ok, a bit too long and disjointed

Question. Do I watch a film that will make me laugh, cry and learn something about myself. Or do I continue listening to Til Death Do Us Blart, a podcast about watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 every single year till the end of linear time?

I love that the number 1 emoji for English posts is the wordle🟩 For most other languages is 😭 or 😂 And for Turkey is 🇹🇷

Our Patricia? I hope so. But I think it's just some Threads meme/trend. @patigallardo.bsky.social this is one to save and have fun with later.

I've wanted to get back into making fun little games, and as a stepping stone, here's Solitaire. Plays in the browser, should play well on phone/tablet, saves your state automatically. Hope it works ok for you. olafurw.com/games/solita...

I'm back as a guest on @lateralcast.com with actually smart people like @iszi.com and Charlotte Yeung lateralcast.com/episodes/194/

"VR failed because it needed that killer app" -"Killer app?" "You know, the thing that makes everyone buy it" -"Like what?" "A lot of people bought computers for the home because of spreadsheet programs... like Excel" -"No, killer apps wouldn't help VR" "Why not?" -"Excel in VR sounds awful"

I've gone this far without learning what sunk-cost fallacy is, so I'm not starting now.

AI gets a lot of it's knowledge from Reddit and online gaming communities, which makes for funny responses when people search for normal English terms. I wonder if in the future AI will mostly talk about Oblivion DLC when historians are researching Horse Armor.

I love it when old game code goes open source on GitHub because it's fun to search for profanities. The rendering engine for EVE Online recently went online and they did a profanity search after they went public, so an account called ccp-intern was tasked with fixing it. github.com/carbonengine...

So many TV shows are "Cops solve case with the help of emotional support weirdo" Can we call this Copslop? Or Copposites Attract?

Stressed? I'm too busy to be stressed.

Fun fact, some Icelanders will write Icelandic very wrong, for fun and it's still understandable to many other Icelanders. For example: Instead of "Af hverju" (why) they write "Agguru" Instead of "Ég hlakka svo mikið til" (I'm really looking forward to) they write "Minns hlakkast svo mestast"

There is embarrassment... ...and then there is going to the doctor, getting some prescriptions, going to the pharmacy and the pharmacy tech not going in the back where all the prescription medication is but rather going into the store and picking a thing from the normal shelf.

Yeeees. It's a historical religious monument... according to Google

In times like these, the only thing that can save us is Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3

Reminder, angry people on the internet are not open to learning new things and being corrected, no matter how nicely and well you do it. Just block.