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I might have 1 or 2 compositions in backup that I could load up...amazing! I love it too.

My initial thought as well, so you're no outlier, unless we are.

"WHO'S 'THEY?????'"

Right? I've been waiting a lot of years for an upgrade to my voice-activated timer setter/music player launcher.

The best thing I ever did for my father was to buy him a kindle and an access point and show him how to use Project Gutenberg to get books. He loved the old writings (he being a GE…

I also enjoy the one about testing bird strike tolerances with store-bought chicken.

I loved Pegasus. Specifically because to move it to another machine you just had to copy the PMAIL folder and make a shortcut. No registry awareness, no dependencies.

I stopped reading once the author claimed it was a lie because the SecSrv knew technical terms, then claimed it was a lie because they didn't know the technical terms. It's too ear…

I would be perfectly satisfied with the ST:TNG Computer. Knows all, knows how to do lots of things, feels nothing.

TIL '\a' is bell on POSIX. That's neat to me all by itself.

I have a MicroVAX in my living room that I use as an end table.

I helped interview a guy recently who was (a) ESL, and (b) Typing in our questions and reading the answers at a breakneck pace to the point where it was almost pathological; we cou…

I still miss bitnet.

I feel this in my soul. I work in higher education, and every major contribution I've made has been ripped from my hands and either dashed like the first copy of the ten commandmen…

I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.

I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and f…

Not sure if the photoset is biased, or if drunk people really like pointing.

I second this.

> All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet The VAXbb clone I wrote in 1999 would beg to differ. :)

I used "rollicking" in one description and it was exactly what it sounds like to your unconscious when you are far too drunk at a country bar

This comment is bang on.

Plenty guitarists are far better than Hendrix, but they didn't get there in a vacuum.

I have an old sampler religious text and inside the cover is The Golden Rule in every major religion--I want to say there are ten or a dozen of them, from Zoroaster to the Bhagavad…

It's, for lack of a better term, "High English." It is meant to sound grand, and thus the grander old style was used. Which is entirely appropriate; IIRC the original Hebrew uses g…

What I keep thinking of following this is from Matthew 5: > Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ 34B…