Damn, the "swoosh!"es just disappeared. :\

, buddy, just ...

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

I got a 3B2/600 server that's older than my two co-workers. Use to be the main Usenet server for Florida and some of the rest of the southeast US. And yea, somewhere I have the tape archive of all those old posts.

I'm 55, only have a Facebook account to keep up with a few family members. Easy to share a photo or a dumb memory that way. Otherwise, Twitter and all the rest of that crap garner not a hint of interest to me. A limit of 140 characters?! And we bemoan the inability of so many millennials from being able to express themselves fully. I just really have no desire to get and keep up with a half dozen or so different such accounts, when I have a bunch of old personal and business accounts I hardly use much, any way.

Why use a opossum as a size indicator? They are a marsupial, not a mammal like ourselves. An opossum is about the same size as a standard house cat, and a cat is a mammal, same as a human. And very possibly more familiar to folks outside North America.

Only thing I can think is it gives some credence to that link, showing that the opossum's existence is due to the same event that lead to the proto-mammal that later split into simians and felids. Still would have made more sense to a banana.

Actually you already do that with a Prius. Push button to start, push same button to shut off.

Well damn, that's a real shame. When that site was up 'n running, it was such a great site. Yea, a lot of trolling on the front end, but behind that, there were some great technical posters that kept me coming back. Sadly, that death of that site means my world-famous chili recipe may also be gone. There was a call for chili recipes, I posted mine. Meat steamed in beer, no beans, and let the chili stew (ie ferment) overnight. Gawd-dam! was it good.

It was especially good, as I made it all completely up. Loosely based on my mom's recipe, but mostly a total fake-er-roo. Yet people made it, a lot of them. And they all loved it. Yep, I trolled K5 with a bogus chili recipe.

Then Rusty kept doing shit that made it no so much fun to visit as often. Then kept doing more of that shit that made it even less fun to visit. So I quit visiting. Other favorite sites have also disappeared: fuckedcompany.com and stilenetwork.com among them. At least http://everything2.com/ is still going, kind of.

It's like an uncola, except for charged moieties...

Then why go Democratic? There are other parties, even if minority. They are minority because people see the numbers and think that party is powerless. True, but it's self-fulfilling. It's like a perfectly great restaurant that's empty, and can't afford a decent advertising budget because it just doesn't have the traffic yet. I'm an old liberal Democrat that's in my mid-50's. I've watched my party go from the party of the people to just a bad clone of the "bad" guys, the Reagan-Bush area Republicans. Neither party has the morals or will to represent the people now. So I've gone over to the party that actually *is* the Democratic party of its golden age, the McGovern candidacy of the early 70's.

My party will probably never win anything not local, but I'll still put my vote there every time: The US Green Party.

Yes, please do check for dry caps on that old mo-bo before powering it on! Even with the old cap-quality being much better 20+ years ago, it can still be a problem. And little is more disheartening that frying an antique mo-bo that probably would have worked fine with a few new caps on it. I say this as a proud owner of an ancient Kaypro 10 who's had to replace a few of its old caps to keep it humming. Gawd, the thrill of 9" green screen CP/M goodness!

Hell, it's beyond my wife's capability. Admittedly, she's 65 with a growing osteoarthritis problem. But it's why I had to get her a nice little revolver for her self-defence EDC gun. Even the trigger on it starts to give her finger issues after a few shots, but she doesn't have to worry about racking it.

Actually a lot of company fleets use Priuses as their standard car. It's not just Aunt Marge or hippies, but even a lot of conservative companies. They're great cars with plenty of inside room, and when driven properly also get great gas mileage. While I was an on-site IT server repair tech, I was given a fleet Prius and absolutely *loved* driving the thing. By far the most comfortable car I've ever driven.

Easy to find, just go "north" (actually west) on I-4 til you get to Fairbanks, look on the right for the building with a flying saucer and rocket on top. You're there!

And don't forget: if you see it and in any way think you'll want to buy it, take it with you! You will not find it there the next time.

> uses a desktop or laptop. Not a tablet in sight,

Except when maybe the desktop and/or laptop -is- a tablet. And vice-versa all three ways.

Now I'm all confusaled!...