…i work with mostly first and second-generation immigrants from all over the world, and a common pattern i’ve noticed among established first-generation immigrants is strong anti-immigrant sentiment; a little bit that they emmigrated to get away from those people, a little bit f*ck-you-i-got-mine…
(i actually thought this was ammunition from an old disc gun)
…all my turntables have included 45RPM adapters for the spindle; never needed anything separate for the records…
…i have a 5" adapter ring for 3" compact discs, though: that has seen legitimate use in all my slot-loading players, although drawer-loading players always included detents for smaller discs, and of course portable players snap directly onto the spindle…
…that was a significant theme in 2061: oddysey three…
…dogpile introduced me to google when it was a brand-new service: i noticed that all the best results increasingly came from the same search engine, so eventually i cut out the middleman and just started using google directly…
…how times have changed; i haven’t used google for years…
…almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren’t interested in reading…
…most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..
…also, jiggle it to check if you’re in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you’re stopped at a light, better jiggle it…
(okay, that’s an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)
…those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them…
…maybe he only protests on factorial dates so the signs stay manageable…
…you gonna write out that whole f*cking integer?..factorials make for snappy handheld signs…
…nah man, they’re just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression…
…washing my feet in the sink is trivial; drying them well-enough not to track around slightly-damp feet afterward is a hassle…
…where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average…
…hot tub time machine; absurdly better film than its pitch had any right to be…
…folks frequently presume i’m a recording on telephone calls; i used to do radio so i guess my extemporaneous diction comes across more composed than anticipated…
…i did not but i’d rather not traffic user-hostile sites, regardless…
…we had the 4016 2001N with an external tape drive: not quite as much geek-cred as the original 2001, but still respectable…
…pretty much this: they’re conformant authoritarians and christian nationalism just happens to be the cultural identity in which they were raised…