My initial thought as well, so you're no outlier, unless we are.
Right? I've been waiting a lot of years for an upgrade to my voice-activated timer setter/music player launcher.
The best thing I ever did for my father was to buy him a kindle and an access point and show him how to use Project Gutenberg to get books. He loved the old writings (he being a GED holder who was in the Navy during…
I also enjoy the one about testing bird strike tolerances with store-bought chicken.
I stopped reading once the author claimed it was a lie because the SecSrv knew technical terms, then claimed it was a lie because they didn't know the technical terms. It's too early in the morning to be purposely…
I would be perfectly satisfied with the ST:TNG Computer. Knows all, knows how to do lots of things, feels nothing.
I have a MicroVAX in my living room that I use as an end table.
I helped interview a guy recently who was (a) ESL, and (b) Typing in our questions and reading the answers at a breakneck pace to the point where it was almost pathological; we could not get a word in. In unspoken…
I still miss bitnet.
I feel this in my soul. I work in higher education, and every major contribution I've made has been ripped from my hands and either dashed like the first copy of the ten commandments or handed over to someone shinier.…
I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.
I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and foot." (He always wore a sock and shoe…
Not sure if the photoset is biased, or if drunk people really like pointing.
> All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet The VAXbb clone I wrote in 1999 would beg to differ. :)
I used "rollicking" in one description and it was exactly what it sounds like to your unconscious when you are far too drunk at a country bar
This comment is bang on.
It's, for lack of a better term, "High English." It is meant to sound grand, and thus the grander old style was used. Which is entirely appropriate; IIRC the original Hebrew uses grander language for poetic passages &…
I'm just happy that a tool that PropriAdobe has sat on and crowed about for years is soon to be a click away for the masses and the hackers.
I love this debate and I expect it will go on forever. It boils down to, A: "California's problems are because California is too California!" "B: Nooo, we have not yet begun to California! If we California harder we can…
Similarly, I used it to answer the question, "Who was the Black female author whose works were saved from an estate bonfire?" Neither DDG nor Goog could answer for me (kept coming up Maya Angelou which is totally…
It's Warren Ellises, all the way down.
I read it as ironic.
I agree, it's an old notion, and reads somewhat Gibson-ish. I am enjoying the article. In a way the narrative matters less to me than the fact that it feels like the old days, and I'm glad this kind of zeitgeist is…
One of the best literary long-tail effects of having a child has been that my wife and I became huge Margret Wise Brown fans. She was a fine artist and a true blueblooded bohehmian, and I'm grateful I got to "know" her…
It's been a minute since I've thought about mc--which is the point, I reckon.
My initial thought as well, so you're no outlier, unless we are.
Right? I've been waiting a lot of years for an upgrade to my voice-activated timer setter/music player launcher.
The best thing I ever did for my father was to buy him a kindle and an access point and show him how to use Project Gutenberg to get books. He loved the old writings (he being a GED holder who was in the Navy during…
I also enjoy the one about testing bird strike tolerances with store-bought chicken.
I stopped reading once the author claimed it was a lie because the SecSrv knew technical terms, then claimed it was a lie because they didn't know the technical terms. It's too early in the morning to be purposely…
I would be perfectly satisfied with the ST:TNG Computer. Knows all, knows how to do lots of things, feels nothing.
I have a MicroVAX in my living room that I use as an end table.
I helped interview a guy recently who was (a) ESL, and (b) Typing in our questions and reading the answers at a breakneck pace to the point where it was almost pathological; we could not get a word in. In unspoken…
I still miss bitnet.
I feel this in my soul. I work in higher education, and every major contribution I've made has been ripped from my hands and either dashed like the first copy of the ten commandments or handed over to someone shinier.…
I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.
I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and foot." (He always wore a sock and shoe…
Not sure if the photoset is biased, or if drunk people really like pointing.
> All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet The VAXbb clone I wrote in 1999 would beg to differ. :)
I used "rollicking" in one description and it was exactly what it sounds like to your unconscious when you are far too drunk at a country bar
This comment is bang on.
It's, for lack of a better term, "High English." It is meant to sound grand, and thus the grander old style was used. Which is entirely appropriate; IIRC the original Hebrew uses grander language for poetic passages &…
I'm just happy that a tool that PropriAdobe has sat on and crowed about for years is soon to be a click away for the masses and the hackers.
I love this debate and I expect it will go on forever. It boils down to, A: "California's problems are because California is too California!" "B: Nooo, we have not yet begun to California! If we California harder we can…
Similarly, I used it to answer the question, "Who was the Black female author whose works were saved from an estate bonfire?" Neither DDG nor Goog could answer for me (kept coming up Maya Angelou which is totally…
It's Warren Ellises, all the way down.
I read it as ironic.
I agree, it's an old notion, and reads somewhat Gibson-ish. I am enjoying the article. In a way the narrative matters less to me than the fact that it feels like the old days, and I'm glad this kind of zeitgeist is…
One of the best literary long-tail effects of having a child has been that my wife and I became huge Margret Wise Brown fans. She was a fine artist and a true blueblooded bohehmian, and I'm grateful I got to "know" her…
It's been a minute since I've thought about mc--which is the point, I reckon.