#bicycle built for two

[jerimee]

the fastest way to get a divorce

[redvioletarts]

I'm so normal about IBM 7094 and Daisy Bell. So normal.

Bell Labs in the early sixties. You know what kind of stuff they were working on back then? The first continuous-light laser. The Telstar spacecraft. The first worldwide TV broadcast, bringing one of President Kennedy's press conferences global in the kind of groundbreaking display of communications technology that eventually paved the way for, y'know, the same kind of global communications technology you're using right now to see this.

And they also had a team of programmers teach this computer to sing. Not the national anthem, not a well-known hymn, not even the alphabet song--they taught it a goofy love song that was already nearly seventy years old at the time. My pet theory is that the name Daisy Bell made a cute pun with Bell Labs and they just went with it.

Maybe they just did it for the PR, but... I doubt it. You work with computers this much, you start to get sentimental about them.

All this work on a computer with the processing power of a calculator so we could meme about Hatsune Miku's grandfather sixty-five years later. ...Worth it.

Of course, with me, y'all know what's coming next. Get t-shirted.

Daisy Bell Lyric T-Shirt

[Image ID #1: A photo mockup showing two smiling women with their arms linked and their heads resting on each other, standing in a sunny room indoors. Both wear jeans and matching T-shirts with the lyrics "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do / I'm half crazy all for the love of you" in hand lettering, curved to fit whimsically around ten hand-drawn daisies. The shirts are dark brown, with white-and-yellow art and lettering. End ID.]

[Image ID #2: A photo mockup showing another smiling woman standing in a living room. She also wears jeans and a T-shirt with the same design, but the base T-shirt color is olive green.]

I used a computer thousands of times more powerful than IBM 7094 to make this artwork, and another one to upload it and configure it on a handful of different products (T-shirt, throw pillow, sweatshirt, and both a cotton and a polyester tote bag). It's in like four different databases and an integration system--I should know, because I wrote a ton of metadata for them to make sure people could find my stuff. When you buy one, a message goes back through the entire tech stack and sends my print partner your custom order, which they then produce and mail out to you in a matter of DAYS.

(How the fuck did we get here from there?)

Anyway, these are great T-shirts! They're super soft, go all the way up to 3X in sizing, and they're manufactured by Bella + Canvas, which has platinum WRAP certification (a huge labor standards org--you can read about their deal here). And they come in five colors!

Get yours here <3

[catinc]

Hey, does anyone know the exactly date the IBM 7094 sung daisy bell? I'm going to schedule a post for that day, but I need to know which day that is.

[selfhelpradio]

portland trophy

[thedailymobile]

“Daisy, Daisy”

© EricBrazier.com

[therealnostalgialover808]

This is the only thing I want to hear Lu sing in the sequel.

SUPER MARIO BROS 2 MOVIE: Recap + Theories (2024)

[dapotatoauthor]

kintio pet with my oc daisy bell

[howlingday]

Penny: Oh, I know this song! My grandfather and I used to sing it all the time.

Weiss: Wait, your grandfather? I thought Doctor Polendina was your father.

Penny: He is, but the program my father used inspired him to create me. It is why he and I affectionately referred to him as "grandfather".

Weiss: Oh. Well, would you like to sing it?

Penny: That would be SEN-SATIONAL~!

Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do~ I'm half-crazy all for the love of you~ It won't be a stylish marriage~ You can't afford a carriage~ But you'll look sweet upon the seat~ Of a bicycle built for two~

[ask-cloverfield]

Poorly optimized Robot girl her fans constantly on and whirring and whirring and borderli9jne steaminga nd heat distorition iot

[martianbugsbunny]

They literally rode a bicycle built for two how can I not ship them

[on-a-bicycle-built-for-two]

daisy, daisy, give me your answer do

i'm h̷a̵l̴f̵ C̶̛͓͖̗͓̲̙̬̪̹͔̮̓̔̈́́̽̒͂̊̀́R̷̨̰͚͖͍̞̰̤͔͈̄̀͐̏̉͘̚͠͝a̴̤̘͍̒̈́̆͆̋͝Z̸̢̬͈̖͒̄̅̄́̅̇͝Y̷̡͕͚͎̜̱̯̮̤̙̳̰̅́͗̀ all for the love of yoU

it won't be a sty-lish marriage,

i caN't afford a carriage

but you look sweet,

upon a seat,

on a bicycle built for two,

on a bicycle built for two.

[sparklerkei]

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two

Daisy Bell is one of my Roman Empires tbh. It's relevance in pop culture and infosec goes so deep...

It all started with the fact that it was the first song sung by a computer.

The famous scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey...

So many famous renditions...

The above version is from Mark Ryden's "The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music" (which is an album full of ONLY renditions of Daisy Bell and homage to the IBM 7094) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2ZEVjcCzo&list=PLX6hl3ZfYanfRbJKsgaQm9qA7q1tpiGZU (Full album featuring people such as Katy Perry & Weird Al). The fact that this album exists fills me with inexplicable joy.

Futurama season 4 episode 3, (overall episode 57), Bender sings Daisy Bell, which is especially ironic with him being a robot.

I was reading Fairy Tale by Stephen King, and the Bicycle Built for Two was referenced in chapter 10-6, too. The delight I get over finding these morsels!

The entirety of the Brobeck's album "Violent Things," but in this case especially "Le Velo Pour Deux" (Love at First Sight is one of the songs I'll listen to on repeat for hours, and the themes floating through the entire album are lovely)

For me, it started with Dengeki Daisy. I had never heard Daisy Bell. Dengeki Daisy was a manga that I read before it was completed, and at the time I was first starting to get into the infosec / hacker world. The song being the reason for the pen name "Daisy," and the lyrics showing up in the manga, sent me on a wild goose chase of discovery and wonder. I loved going deeper into the roots of the reference and finding so many more delightful references to Daisy Bell.

Plus, the song is old enough that while individual versions of it may be copyright, the original song is basically an old time classic that is public domain.

And to be fair, the original AT&T Bell Labs is another one of my Roman Empires, so the fact that the IBM 7094 which sung it originally was an experiment ran in Bell Labs fills me with wonder and excitement.

Anyway I just wanted to collect more Daisy Bell references, so please add yours here if you'd like :)

[starsilversword]

Thinking about the parallels between the Daisy's and Gatsby's backstory and that song On a bicycle built for two.

[drainfennel]

im like the hal 9000 you can make out with

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

darling-dolly-darlene -> daisybell-on-a-carousel

And while we're at it here's my super secret aesthetic sideblog :3c

@daisybell-on-an-old-carousel

It's definitely active and I totally don't forget it exists <-lying voice

[ce-ayr-blog]

Daisy Daisy - Unicorn Challenge

Copyright Ayr/Gray The Unicorn Challenge. A magical new weekly writing opportunity from her – Jenne Gray – and me.Visit her blog every Friday to see the photo prompt, and post your amazing story in her comments section.Or on your own blog, and stick the link down in her comments.The rules are:Maximum of 250 words.Based on photo prompt.That’s it.To hear me read my story, just click here: Daisy…