...geeky grrly (972631):

"I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slaveship just goes in circles."

...eldavojohn for this:

"Can god code something so unusable even he can't use it? No, but I can and so can you: http://www.microsoft.com/careers"

...So far, anyway. This one from "hey!" (33014):

"Post may contain irony: discontinue use if experiencing mood swings, nausea or elevated blood pressure."

Yep, best I've seen this year.

So, I've spent the last couple of nights decommissioning a couple of old Macintoshes I had around the house - An ailing Duo 210, and my 12 year old Quadra 900 workhorse. I guess I'm a bit sad about the process. These are old machines, but I've had the Quadra for over a decade now, and it still runs okay. I've actually gone through two of the weird little PROM batteries that the Quadra uses. There's a lot of my history on that computer.

The Duo was a note-taker for several years, up until I wore out the keyboard. I was also using it for a PIM until 2001. The software I was using for that (anybody remember DayMaker?) had, oddly enough, a Y2K+1 problem, and the company folded, so no bug fix for me. Fortunately, the notebook software I was using (tiny, simple Spiral) runs on my G4 Powerbook in Classic mode, so no loss of functionality there.

What was amazing about the Duo is that I used up only about 30MB on it - Including the OS and all apps. System 7.1, which is what it ran, was pretty tiny - The whole OS took up about 5MB. You have to be a PDA to boast that kind of footprint these days.

Well, they're both done and gone now - All of the software and docs (whether the apps will run under Classic mode or not) written to CD via an ancient 2x SCSI CD recorder I had around, and the disks then wiped after moving everything to the Powerbook. I'm still keeping one iDinosaur around, though - I've got a PowerMac 180 MP that's running System 9.04, and that still has some miles left on it as a Mac and maybe a Yellow Dog box.

Kinda sad to turn old hardware out to the curb, but I guess it had to happen sooner or later, and I'm in clean-up-your-life mode, so out they go...

..the chance of me getting mod points is inversely proportional to the number of cool posts I run across while reading. Call it "captainClassLoader's Law"...

So, in general, I mod up. I like to think of myself as a positive person. Occasionally, I'll see something egregious and mod down, but that's pretty rare - Something I do only slightly more often than I use my horn out on the expressway, typically 3 or 4 times a year.

What I wish is that there were more mod categories. I'd like to combine some to make new ones. For example:

Insightful + Funny = Ironic

Insightful + Flamebait = Controversial

Offtopic + Troll = Inane

I'm sure you can think of others.

I'd also like a Sarcastic mod, but I can't decide whether that would be +1 or -1. Along with that would be a Pedantic. Definitely a -1 there. And, to end on a high note, I occasionally run across posts that actually rock my world - I'd like to mod those Enlightening, +1. Kinda like Insightful, only up a couple of notches.

Check, one-two. Check, one-two. Somebody wanna check the EQ on the monitors? This mike is ringing a little...