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  :pusheenbounce: This is beautiful. For folk not in the know, the text present in cell A1 is a reference to a 2002 music video in which Kelly Rowland appears to text Nelly . . . using a spreadsheet on her smartphone. https://www.unilad.com/music/nelly-kelly-rowland-microsoft-excel-text-solved-20221008  @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor You wouldn't believe the things I have seen people use Excel for @quantensalat @ethanjstark Working in print, I have seen a book written in Excel, one page per sheet. Apart from the pain in getting it out to a nicely printable form, excel PDF output is *really* nice.  @NanoRaptor @quantensalat @ethanjstark I've seen powerpoint used for PCB design and excel used for power network breaker fault simulation with live scada. People have no bounds in their creativity. @xssfox @NanoRaptor @quantensalat @ethanjstark I've used Word as an image editor before, as another example. @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor I once had to debug an application that kept crashing, which timed industrial automation processes (concretely, robots in car factories) in real time in situ using VBA excel. After a week of pulling my hair out over reams of weird vba code it turned out the windows system at the factory site had simply become slow from being windows.  @quantensalat @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor my advisor had a nightmarish Excel spreadsheet of unknown provenance that he loved to show off to prospective students (and *only* them??) that…acted as a magnetostatic field solver Some number of cells (maybe it was flexible and you could configure the bounds?) represented the computational domain, and you populated the cells, one symbol for non-linearities (iron) and another for current sources/sinks then click "step" a bunch of times until it converged  @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor the worst part is they could've used the actual SMS app in the communicator and it would've been just as fine for the music video, but would have also please the tech crowd. Instead they created one of the first memes I still remember. @aamurusko79 @ethanjstark @NanoRaptor  @NanoRaptor I’m thinking that there is a need for Exceltris, where the numbers and equations fall from the top and you must place them in the correct cells.    @NanoRaptor Oh, I had one of these mint on the shelf in a box but my nephew got to it and now it’s wrecked. Oh well, I heard a pristine Nintendo Excel goes for $5k now. :hotboi:   @NanoRaptor The internet meme circles were still in their infancy, when the original 'I didn't SMS you back because you wrote it in spread sheet' thing happened. @NanoRaptor What happens when you press ‘time’?  @johntimaeus @NanoRaptor @thorne @NanoRaptor @NanoRaptor Where did you get the little man image from (looks like a merge of two from Mario Bros)?  @NanoRaptor
It can't be considered proper Excel if it comes without my pal Clippy! :marseyclippy:  @NanoRaptor Within the Game and Watch productivity space, Lotus 1-2-3 was also ported to compete with Excel and gained itself a very reasonable portion of the market of on the go spreadsheet makers with its ability to create scatter plots with trendlines which Excel lacked.   @NanoRaptor I remember Office Excel 97 having an entire flight sim buried in it. I managed to play it once at work, super weird and kind of cool.   @NanoRaptor I was just thinking if there’s a competitive e-sports event for using and editing in VIM.  @NanoRaptor Was this ever actually a product? I would've payed money for this back in the day. I never had the excel game at this time, but I enjoyed the notepad game. We were young and didn't know better ...   @NanoRaptor I wonder what the method is to get the flight simulator easter egg in this Excel version... @NanoRaptor At first I thought the little "dit dit" sounds when you moved the cursor around was cute, then after a while it was annoying, but now in retrospect I feel nostalgic for it.  @NanoRaptor I feel so sad for Kelly Rowland, still waiting for her text back.  |
@NanoRaptor ah yes, my first spreadsheet, good times