Portable Envy: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:Portable_Envy.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for Portable Envy.]][[File:Portable_envy_clock_generator.jpg|thumb|Portable envy component (lower left) on a clock generator circuit board. Note the classic "green with envy" glow.]]'''Portable Envy''' is a | [[File:Portable_Envy.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for Portable Envy.]][[File:Portable_envy_clock_generator.jpg|thumb|Portable envy component (lower left) on a clock generator circuit board. Note the classic "green with envy" glow.]]'''Portable Envy''' is a brand of electronic devices which offload the emotion of [[envy|envy (nonfiction)]] from the user's mind to remote storage for later upload. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:How Green Was My Envy.jpg|link=How Green Was My Envy|'''''[[How Green Was My Envy]]''''' is a 1941 American drama film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, told from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who, despite the best efforts of affectionate and kind parents, grows up envious of others. | |||
File:Nixie Economy.jpg|link=The Nixie Economy|'''''[[The Nixie Economy|The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy]]''''' is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users. | |||
File:Man-portable phrenology system.jpg|link=Man-portable phrenology system|A '''[[man-portable phrenology system]]''' ('''MPPS''') is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate. | File:Man-portable phrenology system.jpg|link=Man-portable phrenology system|A '''[[man-portable phrenology system]]''' ('''MPPS''') is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate. | ||
| Line 29: | Line 33: | ||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | * [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | ||
* [[How Green Was My Envy]] | * ''[[How Green Was My Envy]]'' | ||
* [[Man-portable phrenology system]] | * [[Man-portable phrenology system]] | ||
* ''[[The Nixie Economy]] | |||
* ''[[Transdimensional corporation]]'' | * ''[[Transdimensional corporation]]'' | ||
* [[Verdigris]] | * [[Verdigris]] | ||
| Line 39: | Line 44: | ||
* [[Envy (nonfiction)]] | * [[Envy (nonfiction)]] | ||
== External links == | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy Envy] @ Wikipedia | |||
=== Social media === | |||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1681668840092999681 Post] @ Twitter (19 July 2023) - typo Brando | |||
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1507531268132683783 Post] @ Twitter (25 March 2022) | * [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1507531268132683783 Post] @ Twitter (25 March 2022) | ||
Latest revision as of 19:35, 9 November 2023
Portable Envy is a brand of electronic devices which offload the emotion of envy (nonfiction) from the user's mind to remote storage for later upload.
History
Early versions of portable envy exploited vulnerable components on substandard circuit board components, for example by exploiting components designed from faulty industrial espionage (see Capacitor plague (nonfiction)).
Subsequently, pirate manufacturers have released knock-off circuit boards with built-in portable envy features.
Portable envy devices are popular black-market items in many prisons, despite efforts by get-tough wardens (and, in some prisons, self-regulating prisoners) to forbid ownership or use of portable envy.
In the News
How Green Was My Envy is a 1941 American drama film about the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, told from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who, despite the best efforts of affectionate and kind parents, grows up envious of others.
The Nixie Economy: How black market Nixie tubes fuel the underground economy is a study of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes, with an emphasis on the underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by a self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.
A man-portable phrenology system (MPPS) is a lightweight phrenological measurement and analysis system that does not require vehicle support to transport or operate.
Alfred Hitchcock Resents is an American reality television anthology series created and hosted by, and starring, Alfred Hitchcock.
Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
!["Verdigris" (better known as "Verdigris Before You Go-Go") is a song by the [REDACTED] duo Whom?, first released as a single in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere on 14 [REDACTED] 1984.](/w/images/thumb/6/68/Verdigris.jpg/120px-Verdigris.jpg)
"Verdigris" (better known as "Verdigris Before You Go-Go") is a song by the [REDACTED] duo Whom?, first released as a single in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere on 14 [REDACTED] 1984.
Theologians announce that Envy drove Cain to slay Abel.
Fiction cross-reference
- Alfred Hitchcock Resents
- Extract of Radium
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- How Green Was My Envy
- Man-portable phrenology system
- The Nixie Economy
- Transdimensional corporation
- Verdigris
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Envy @ Wikipedia