Journal perfessor multigeek's Journal: Context 10
So I'm on the train, standing and hanging on to a pole, talking to this tall Ben Affleck type and his hip Euro-looking girlfriend. We're talking about religion and belief and I'm saying that the only way to appreciate Tom Robbins movies [TOM, not TIM, dammit] is to see them together. "You gotta do a marathon. Man, it's the only way. Maybe you guys could come over and we could do an all day thing".
We come into a station and since we're on an elevated line and it's a bright sunny day we can see that it's under construction so it makes sense that the train isn't stopping. This leaves me a bit pissed, though it's nice to see the pretty new cast concrete forms looking all seventies modern. But even cooler are all the pieces of computer equipment lined up on the platform. In fact, most of them are Imagewriter IIs held closed with thick bands of scarlet red duct tape.
Just as I lean forward and delightedly yell, "Imagewriters!" the alarm goes off and I wake up.
Discuss.
Rustin
We come into a station and since we're on an elevated line and it's a bright sunny day we can see that it's under construction so it makes sense that the train isn't stopping. This leaves me a bit pissed, though it's nice to see the pretty new cast concrete forms looking all seventies modern. But even cooler are all the pieces of computer equipment lined up on the platform. In fact, most of them are Imagewriter IIs held closed with thick bands of scarlet red duct tape.
Just as I lean forward and delightedly yell, "Imagewriters!" the alarm goes off and I wake up.
Discuss.
Rustin
Paging Dr. Freud (Score:3, Funny)
Trains. Tunnels. Very good, very good.
hanging on to a pole
Hmmm, yes, I see. Hanging on poles. Yes. Were you stroking this pole? Or gripping it firmly?
talking to this tall Ben Affleck type
Ah yes, your superego.
and his hip Euro-looking girlfriend
And you were quite interested in this...girlfriend, yes?
Did she look like your mother?
We're talking about religion and belief
Ah! Your id comes out!
I'm saying that the only way to appreciate Tom Robbins movies [TOM, not TIM, dammit]
You insistence on "Tom" is interesting. You prefer the round shape to the straight shape, yes?
"You gotta do a marathon.
Ah, a test of endurance! Yes, very masculine.
Man, it's the only way. Maybe you guys could come over and we could do an all day thing"
I see, you prefer to do..."it"...in groups, yes? Exhibitionism?
We come into a station
Ah, the trains and tunnels again. And you came into it, yes yes.
we're on an elevated line
Elevated, mmmm-hmm, do go on.
so it makes sense that the train isn't stopping
Mmm, endurance again. Yes, yes.
But even cooler are all the pieces of computer equipment lined up on the platform.
Oh my. So at the...pinnacle...of your experience, you start to see...computer equipment? Indeed, old computer equipment?
In fact, most of them are Imagewriter IIs held closed with thick bands of scarlet red duct tape.
Ah. Computer-equiment bondage?
Discuss.
Hmmm, my diagnosis is that you are suffering from acute geek fantasies about mature "hardware" in bondage.
Ah! I'm afraid our little session is at an end. See you again next week, 3 o'clock? Very good.
You forgot (Score:2)
ROFL, second time today (Score:2)
Rustin
It's obvious (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's obvious (Score:1, Funny)
Imagewriters are "gay"? Silly, silly ACs (Score:2)
Well, since you asked, mine is sure as fuck bigger then yours since my actual printer that squats here massively beside me is a hundred pound plus HP 8000 that is almost two feet on a side and could cripple many people simply by being dropped on them.
Heh.
As for the Imagewriter, kidlets, learn your history. I ran a jigsaw several inches into my first Imagewriter and continued to use it without a hitch for another year. Of course, th