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And they got disqualified from the Oscars “because they cheated” – the following year there was a brand new nomination category for computer generated effects…

When the fuck did you compare? Uh, wording, but whatever.

And “hellpers” on the cover, tee hee.

That last one is fun. Look at it for long enough and you’ll realise it’s actually a colour photo.

They are! They’re slanted differently, one is seen from the top, the other from the tip.

Or battery life. I could care less if the new phone is 0.64mm thinner, spend that volume on extra joules instead.

Sincerely,
those of us who remember pda’s with 14- or 25-day battery life.

Used to be, people wore boots with heels for functional reasons (to not slip through a saddle’s stirrups). Nowadays, posh non-riders wear them to look fancy.

True in 1627, I guess, true now as well.

A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.

Damn straight.

As a divorced dad, Bluey is painfully sweet. I love that show to bits and it saddens me that my girl will soon no longer want to watch it as she gets older.

🥲 Those family dynamics.

Does the flight sim in Excel count? If yes, then that.

Otherwise, Day of Defeat (Steam mod). Still somewhat peeved that it never got the same recognition as CS.

This is quite an accomplishment. Kudos.

For my family, the biggest hurdles by far is a mail/calendar combo that works as well and supports sharing etc, and how the hell to migrate out of Gmail when so many of my emails have several labels which won’t translate cleanly into IMAP folders. I wonder how you tackled those, or how you compromised.

May your day be as pleasant as you are.

Funnily enough, this works at both ends of the scale.

There’s a lot of humour in there, but this:

CSCI 3300: Classical Software Studies
Discuss and dissect historically significant products, including VisiCalc, AppleWorks, Robot Odyssey, Zork, and MacPaint. Emphases are on user interface and creativity fostered by hardware limitations.

I’d take that course in a heart beat. I’ve read some of Atkinson’s ideas and thoughts, and the man was deeply sane.

It must be decades now that my LinkedIn background banner is a screen shot of Zork source code.

I mean, good news, but I bet somebody is awfully embarrassed.

I’m using Sync (on android) and it’s quite pleasant. No ads, does what it needs to.

I just tried it. There’s ads on every screen. Bye, Boost!

I’ve never had a contract that didn’t say that. I always pushed back. Without exception, the response was that hobby projects and open source stuff is fiiine as long as you don’t use company machines, time, resources, or compete with their market.

…except that I’m an idiot who messed up dabbling in geography.

Apologies.

You go from being sad to just not caring. That very much does not make you happy, but it might make you stop complaining.

There’s a comic where the doc then says “good enough!” and that’s supposed to be funny. Ha ha ha. Same reason I stopped reading Dilbert: it’s not really funny when it’s an accurate account of what really happened.

Except that this is something any barkeep would be d able to pull out at a moment’s notice without any other preparation than having put it there at any point previously. No need to pay a retainer for a mage, or that nasty “subscription to the local guild”.