> Harvard senteces are collection of sample phrases that are used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
> A Bottle Movie is a movie that entirely (or mostly) plays out in a single location, usually a small one. A good way to tell if a film is “bottle-like” is if it can be turned into a stage play, because the term Bottle Movie comes from the idea that the whole film could fit into a confined space, like a bottle
> Originally known as the Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur (hence FIBA), in 1989 it dropped the word amateur from its name but retained the acronym
Decades later, I'm still finding things like this that I feel like I should have picked up during my years in California public schools.
Though I should point out that I did get a better perspective on World War II than many of my contemporaries, because I had a history teacher who was a child in the Baltics during the war and was willing to share what he knew ... including hearing the German dictator's speeches on the radio ... he never said whether he understood the language, but he did say the speeches were spellbinding.
Also, in 7th grade, I had a history teacher who'd spent a lot of time researching some of the Revolutionary War battles in and around Boston. She gave us a lot more details and passion than the usual blah blah.
So I got a lot of some things. I just feel like the French revolution was a major enough event that we should have learned more about it. Instead, we mostly skipped it (maybe a brief mention of Marie Antoinette and "let them eat cake" ... and of the reign of terror, but that's all) and the Napoleonic wars (though we did cover the Louisiana purchase and the fact that it helped fund the wars in Europe).
My perception is that once there's $SOFTWARE Community Edition and $SOFTWARE Enterprise Edition, the sponsoring company will usually gradually suffocate the CE version in order to push users into buying licenses for the EE version. I'm not saying this is happening here, but if I were building a #NAS box, I'd keep that in mind when deciding what software stack to run on it.
Oh, the actress who plays Rey! #TIL, and that's probably the one media-related thing I should have already known.
I'm already used to not knowing who a "famous" performer is because I've essentially been away from the world of media since the 1980s, with exceptions in the 1990s for my weekly movie with #sonOne when he was in high school and a year or two when a friend decided to try to catch me up by recording the best TV shows on VHS to play for me during my weekly visits.