Keith Richards has already lived through the heat death of one universe.

I was lucky; I lived in a Road Runner test market and my off-campus apartment with early cable modem had unreal speed compared to the fractional T-1 the school used.

Oh geez, they've flooded alt.sex.bald.captains with crappy AI / and it's always Q. WTF?!!

Is nothing sacred?

John Brunner has entered the conversation.

Obligatory:

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

          --Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, January 1849 Les Guêpes Journal

Wasn't one of the first open source scrapes of teh internets (text and images I think) around 80TB to download? Can see smaller IT businesses, labs, universities able to use something in that range. Lost of schools had decent size clusters.

I was hopping for a bobble-head run.

In the US, at least in my state, jurors are not allowed to bring a cell phone into the courtroom and unless you have an issued pass, you can't bring cell phones into the court building.

The decimation

–the buttered toast strapped to the cat's back.

Thinking back, 95% of the films I've seen in theaters the last 20 years have been specticle films (action/sf: marvel, star wars, dune) where it's fun to be overwhelmed by light and sound.

The other 5% are offbeat films like Wes Anderson or Coen Brothers, where I want to support the film makers. Sadly, judging by the almost empty theaters (nice experience for us) is that most folks aren't going to theaters for such films.

Last film with an intermission I saw at a theater was the roadshow version of The Hateful Eight: 70mm Panaflex wide screen.

At the theater, everyone received a large booklet about the film, there was an overture playing as we walked into the theater, no previews were shown, and halfway through, there was an interview. This was just the coolest film experience and if there were more films presented like this, wouldn't mind dropping $75-$100 for family to go see stuff in theater.

My kid was 16 and glad they got the chance to see a film like this. Who knows how many decades it might be before there's another roadshow presentation.

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AI

[/Peg Bundy voice]

It's just one character.

Can't possibly have any effect of signifigance.