The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better Complaint Thread
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...not far behind. I remember Duck and Cover drills in school, Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, Steve Allen, and the night some skinny Johnny "something" guy took over the Tonight Show from Jack Paar, watching Alan Shephard's suborbital space flight on live television in class, The CBS Evening news with Walter Cronkite (which was only 15 min and still in B&W), listening to rock & roll before the Beatles, JFK stumping for the presidency, our family driving around in an Edsel dad bought.
...I did that for nearly two years on my old notebook to keep the 60 day demo of MS Office 2003 active.
...here in Portland OR rents are getting out of hand and if you are a pensioner (like I am) it's difficult to find an affordable place. Power used to be cheap here (all hydroelectric) but the recent growth in the area meant they have to get it from other sources (like coal and more recently, wind) so the cost went up. All the developers here want to build upscale and luxury flats/condos that are ridiculously expensive. Where I am is t termed "low income" housing ,however I am paying 50% of my monthly benefit just for rent alone, and next February it will be more as rent will be increased (received the notice over the weekend). It's nice, insulated, and weatherised, but there is a limit (I believe only 2 cats at the most) as to how many furry companions you can have and again the deposit is pretty stiff.
I'd also be very wary about using LNG indoors, as it also can produce carbon monoxide.
..sweet.
Once made a wand prop for a costume using a highly polished brass tube that had an LED inside. There was a reed switch, and micro battery, at the base end and had a magnet concealed in a glove so I could make it glow seemingly at will. People were "amazed" when I held it up and suddenly it would glowed from within the light reflected all around by the highly polished interior (it actually produced a faint beam if there was any smoke or mist in the air). It took a very subtle almost unnoticeable motion to bring the switch into proximity of the magnet. I loved seeing people look around for the "on/off" switch pressing the back end of the tube and whatnot to try and get it to light up to no avail.
...and these were college students.
Yes technology can be "magic" sometimes.
Working in the theatre scene and costume shop was so much fun during Halloween.
I remember... Ah... Never mind... I forgot.
that trick really works??
..yeah worked on old Xp. If you were not concerned about date stamps on your created files worked fine for about two years until a new SP came out. Don't actually reset your system though. just the clock and date. I would reset the date and clock to a week after I bought and started up the system.
Not sure if it works on W10 though as that has to keep "calling home".
I'm often catching myself feeling old, because I clearly remember 9/11, and half of the people I socialize with online were small children when it happened. They talk about the 90s like the Milennials talk about the 50s, like "Stop praising those horrible old days already! X, Y and Z things were soooo bad, back then! We could literally die without our smart-phones and social media!" (They could, apparently. Articles written by Very Learned People have explained why and how.)
I'm (barely) old enough to remember the Chernobyl disaster, and the Challenger exploding. Although I wasn't really allowed to watch the news, my parents must have made an exception or two. I also remember watching people climb over the Berlin wall on TV, and the Romanian revolution.
planned obsolesence, hardware and software.
My philip's 29" monitor only lasted 15 months. yet the no name brand one 'hanspree' has lasted 10 years and still working.
both monithrs are plugged into apc battery backup surge suppressors.
will need to do some rearranging to use my carrara pc
i can't just move a monitor, ocd, lol, haz to dust and vacuum the area
i'll end up playing witcher3 all night. high stakes gwent match.
I am so tired but had fun trick or treating at the mall. Pictures of my haul later.
edit fixed a typo
I'm so old... that when I was born, Harry Truman was president and the "Ed Sullivan Show" (aka: "Toast of the Town") was first on TV.
I'm so old... that I remember when toothpaste came in metal tubes.
I'm so old... that I remember when the original "Godzilla" was first run at the movies. And "Forbidden Planet" was the "Star Trek" of the '50s.
I'm so old I can't even remember the things that prove how old I am!
I am so tired, thinking of doing something is draining. Even trying to decide what netflix show to watch is tiring.
I'm trying to study while children are knocking at the door.
You are so lucky. I am not allowed to study but to clean, until I die it seems.
...I remember when a phone sat on an end table with a wire going into the wall and you had to ask your parents for permission to use it. one of this 12 and 13 year olds carrying around 600 - 800$ iPhones. If you needed to make a call on the go you used a corner call box (and make sure you had dimes in your pocket to do so).
Crikey back in my day if you had a 15$ transistor radio you felt you were on top of the world.
...I'm so old...I forgot why.I'm so old.
...The I'm So Old I Forgot Why.I'm So Old Complaint Thread
I'm so old... I remember when nickels were made from nickel and had buffalos and Indians on them. And dimes and quarters and half-dollars were silver, and pennies were real copper. And dollar coins were silver and huge and were worth just $1 And half-dollars were as plentiful as quarters. And if you saw a penny on the ground you picked it up because it was useful.
Yeah, you could actually roll up those toothpaste tubes as you used them, and they'd stay rolled up! I watched The Adventures of Superman first-run! (George Reeves) Everyone thought it was a little spooky when the new Superman was named Christopher Reeve! Remember the superstitious legend around Superman actors? The curse of Superman? Kirk Allen, I think, played Superman in the serials (short movies in theaters), jumped off a building thinking he could fly (or that was the story). Then George was killed. Then Christopher was thrown off a horse and paralyzed.
Dana
Philips...that was your mistake. Samsung is the way to go. My T220 is still going strong! They have full HD monitors now, saw one in BJ's last week 29". Can't buy a new one right now, don't need it anyway.
Dana
Well,
See a penny, pick it up
All the day you'll have good luck!
The luck part, I don't know. But I could get candy for a penny! Two white chocolate cowboy themed candies. Boots, hats, sherrif stars, six shooters. These days, I don't bother picking up a penny...you don't know where it's been and what you might catch!
And it's not much use anymore!
Dana
I'm so old, I fart dust.
...
Ewwwww!
Dana
...so old, I forgot to use my PC DO coupon before it expired (again).
Must be the meds...yeah, that's it.
Used mine just in time.
Dana
...actually more occupied with potential drive recovery. Took it into a local shop Wednesday afternoon and will get a call tomorrow. If it can be recognised and spool up I'll head back down there to see if the folders I need are OK and can be copied to my portable drive.
There was no damage to the controller board so that wasn't the reason.
Watching historic aviation stuff on YouTube. Crikey, 02.05 already, time to head to bed.
Early 90s?
Late 90s?
Hmmm, did I grow up in a very old-fashioned country?
(Probable answer: Yes.) Does anyone else remember toothpaste coming in spray bottles, similar to the ones shaving foam comes in?
Your meds or your DO coupon?
do you mean things like this
You can still buy them
And I do actually still have a telephone that plugs into the wall and you pick the receiver up which is attached to the base unit with a curly cord. Mind you it is mainly for show but it does work and is handy if you need to phone someone during a power cut.
My normal phone also plugs into the wall, but has to plug twice, once to electric socket and once to phone socket.