…dogpile introduced me to google when it was a brand-new service: i noticed that all the best results increasingly came from the same search engine, so eventually i cut out the middleman and just started using google directly…
…how times have changed; i haven’t used google for years…
…almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren’t interested in reading…
…most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..
…i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..
…also, jiggle it to check if you’re in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you’re stopped at a light, better jiggle it…
(okay, that’s an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)
…what do the money detector and red buttons do?..
…maybe he only protests on factorial dates so the signs stay manageable…
…you gonna write out that whole f*cking integer?..factorials make for snappy handheld signs…
…nah man, they’re just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression…
…that’s pretty much ICE’s recruitment demographic…
…hot tub time machine; absurdly better film than its pitch had any right to be…
…i did not but i’d rather not traffic user-hostile sites, regardless…
…now that’s a name i’ve not heard in - two months…
…unfortunately they’re rife with oppressively disruptive advertising these days; just not worth reading anymore and my battery life agrees…
…nah man, i’m here for casual conversation; nothing at all shameful about honest ignorance, only willful ignorance…
…because it’s a plainly ignorant statement akin to “i don’t like french music”: do you just dislike music malt whisky?..that’s a fair statement, but one which would apply to all malt whiskies regardless of nation of origin, as there’s no unifying style distinguishing scotch in particular…
…conversely, if you don’t mind other malt whiskies but dislike something specific about scotch, that’s indicative of narrow experience coloring your expectation of a vast ecology of styles and expressions which have little in common other than being based on barley, water, distillation, and age…
…“i don’t like scotch” is a common statement from folks who’ve only sampled peated malts; your listerine comment sounds like medicinal peat notes, which are a divisive style…
…that was a significant theme in 2061: oddysey three…