This was my first exposure to Linux - one of the PCs in high school had it installed. (I had read about Linux before then, but not had a chance to try it)
It had a little foam Tux in the box, and I got to keep it:
This was my first exposure to Linux - one of the PCs in high school had it installed. (I had read about Linux before then, but not had a chance to try it)
It had a little foam Tux in the box, and I got to keep it:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was
I have an official USB pet rock I got from a thinkgeek back in the day. Has a little box with air holes and everything.
Exactly as functional as the original pet rock, but has a short USB cable attached.
My parents both didn’t swear (at least not where I could hear them) so I simply never picked up the habit. I can swear if I make a conscious effort to do so, but generally only find reason to if I am quoting someone or something. And even that feels awkward to me.
As for expressing myself, I don’t believe I have much trouble in that regard. There are a ton of other words available and ways to arrange them. And if I truly need to express anguish, rage, etc. there is always yelling or screaming.
This is going to be a bit long, and I’m posting it late, but anyway…
I met a couple former girlfriends through school and such, but not a lot happened until I started online dating. One of the first ones I met that way brought one of her friends along when we met in person because of course meeting a stranger from the internet was scary business (not that this has changed necessarily, but it was new at the time). Anyway after a date or two, things didn’t work out with the first girl. I forgot her real name, but I’m making up names anyway so I’ll call her Monica since mono=1.
But I later met the friend randomly at work! Small world. I’ll call her Jenny. Her real first name is quite rare and would identify her rather precisely. So we started dating, and things seemed to be going ok, but slow. However after my dad died the relationship kinda fell off.
I went back to the dating site and eventually met another girl, I’ll call her Amy. We scheduled a date for the local State Fair, and when the time arrived she was clearly really upset about something but still wanted to go on the date. So we did, and she was still visibly upset, but I didn’t pry.
Later that day she eventually told the story:
Amy had a few months prior moved to my state from Georgia, and did so because of a boy she had dated before who moved here, but had friendzoned her. And that boy had started seeing someone, and Amy didn’t like that, but it hadn’t really hit her until that day, when the boy and the girl he was seeing had told each other that they loved each other. But Amy liked me and was trying to move on, so I did what I could to emotionally comfort her (we weren’t physical).
Later on (forgot if same night) I invited her back to my place. Now of course I’m a geek and date geeky women, so when I say something stupid like “Want to see the cosplay pics I took at [the local anime convention]?” her response was “Sure”.
As I was going through the pictures, she knew many of the characters and even already knew some of the people playing them. At one point as I was about to move on to the next picture her tone changed - she said “Oh, I know her”. I raised an eyebrow and asked “Oh really?”, and she said “Yes, that’s the girl that [boy] is seeing”.
After some effort to pick my jaw up from the ground, I managed to explain:
“She’s my ex.”
Amy asked, “Jenny‽” (Remember, unusual real name, which I hadn’t told her)
“Yes.” I said.
So while I was dating a girl that recently moved in, her ex was dating my ex. Going over the timelines later, Jenny was probably cheating on me before we broke up.
And no kids, Amy’s not your mother my wife. This was many seasons years before.
I think that drive is long gone - this was over a decade ago. But if I find them I’ll update this.
I have a couple times.
My favorite was as a Katamari -
Was standing in a giant Hoberman sphere on a rolling cart. The structure was covered in a sheet and the sheet was covered in whatever junk I could find that would fit, but especially stuff from the game. Even had a life size Prince of All Cosmos trailing behind it
All these people posting inspirational stories and here I am with my first thought being “Finally saw the northern lights”. Got some decent pictures too.
“Worst” by technicality - I actually had a lot of fun with it for several minutes:
This famous piece of internet lore.
At the time I tried it, it worked “perfectly” in Wine (as well as on Windows that is)
Yeah, can a game even be bad if it’s excellent at what it intends to be?
This book also basically predicted cryptocurrency (but not the blockchain stuff)
Got a little too safe - transmission started going out, so it became tough to even reach freeway speed.
Software and hardware support definitely counts.
I would also guess that probably a lot of Microsoft enterprise stuff like active directory group policies likely aren’t supported well, but I don’t have enough knowledge to back that up.
My first car was named “Safely”. Regardless of the quality of my driving, I was driving Safely.
My current car is Carefully.
How to use a computer.
My dad once physically pried the buttons off a mouse because he couldn’t figure out left vs right clicking, and thought it was broken. I still didn’t know what he thought he would accomplish.
It would basically prove this.
Au jus. When it comes with something else I dip the fries also.
Only 10% taxes?
Doesn’t sound like such a bad deal maybe.
Anyway, at least some of the USA founding fathers were just as down on the idea of political parties as Samuel was on kings here. I think they were right.
Did you miss the explicit /s as well as the strongly implied one?
Any time I see an article about someone doing things with Redstone circuits, I think about that comic.