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Comment · 1 month ago

yep. it is unexpectedly everywhere. like, overnight.

Comment · 1 month ago

wow. thank-you. i'd never heard of it, and it is a thing of beauty.

Comment · 6 months ago

I was hoping someone would point out slayradio. Incredible community of people, and I've been listening and chatting with those guys for decades.

Comment · 5 years ago

    Gauloises
    Smoke
    Algorithms

    a different type of thinking

    Tonight mechanics of language ring
    like bells or machinery

    Or lust 
    after longing

    Circuits cut on paper
    Writ on paper
    Walls of paper
    carefully positioned

    Nights and nights
    Missing it missing you missing.

    Time to close to end it
    and/or just hit Enter

    Smoke
    Algorithms
    Cigarettes

    Return

Comment · 5 years ago

Lady Astor: "If you were my husband, I'd poison your drink."

Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

-Apocryphal

Comment · 5 years ago

I did not buy it. I traded Night Driver for it (and the paddles). 1980? And yeah, not to put too fine a point on it, just... no.

But, given the replay-ability of Night Driver, still a fair trade.

Comment · 5 years ago

Quite challenging.

That game is impossible to solve without spoilers, so far as I'm concerned. And lord knows I tried. As far as Infocom goes, the only ones I managed to solve unassisted were Zork I and II and Planetfall, all of which are considered on the easy end of the spectrum. The later games were much more complex. Along with HHG2TG, Lurking Horror was really difficult too.

Tons of fun all of them, though.

Gosh I miss my C64.

Comment · 5 years ago

Google is getting some serious flack.

From NPR this morning... https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947918291/google-researcher-d...

Comment · 5 years ago

Maybe the 8th is an implied nested recursion. It's the story of Mr. Vonnegut telling the story of the other 7 shapes.

Comment · 6 years ago

I learned spreadsheeting in Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS in the early '90s. It is so fast and super powerful. I still use the 1-2-3 keystrokes in Excel to this day (an option that I'm both infinitely pleased and super shocked still exists, Microsoft actually did something right!)

If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!

Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yep. I had a C64 and my step-brother had an Atari 800. It was a cool machine as well. Same processor, but radically different graphics and sound chip, if I remember correctly.

Comment · 6 years ago

Great book. Little dated, but still worth a read.

Love the HOLE HAWG analogy about tools that do what you tell them to, immediately and sometimes dangerously, regardless of whether what you told them to do was right.

Comment · 6 years ago

I was happy to see the C64 called out near the end of this. I love that machine, and the Amiga so much. And reading about this Pi 400 the other day truly struck me in the same vein. I honestly don't care much about the couple obvious shortcomings, for $100, this is a purely nostalgia purchase for me.

I could do with some case color options, but that's a small niggle given what this thing can do. And I appreciate the focus on price point. Old school design constraints.