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After so much Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, & who remembers what else, when I think of starships, I still think of these real-world proposals shown in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

Microsoft counts to ten 

1
2
2.1
3
3.1
3.3
4
5
6
6.22

Perfect!
Wait, that's not right.
We can count!

1
2/286
2/386
3
3.1
for Workgroups
95
98
Second Edition
Millennium Edition

Perf--!
Wait, that's still not right.
Let's start counting again!

3.1
3.5
4
2000
XP
Vista
7
8
8.1
10

Nailed it!
Yay!

kigu TF 

Okay, I think I just found the kind of pajamas I want for xmas. Does anyone know who sells these? deviantart.com/blackshirtboy/a

You're all good people, no matter what you think of yourselves.

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subtoot [-?] 

I read your hurt & sadness, but I never know what to say because so often I can't read it until an eternity has passed after you write it. I feel like showing any acknowledgment without saying anything meaningful will be like poking an open wound.

I'll probably never meet you, but I still care about you. Your pain is valid. Choosing to share it is an act of bravery.

My silence is my failing, not yours.

Be sure to follow my sound cloud!

No, really. It's a cloud, it's making weird tooting sounds, and it's kind of creeping me out. Follow it and find out what it wants from me.

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Microsoft counts to ten 

1
2
2.1
3
3.1
3.3
4
5
6
6.22

Perfect!
Wait, that's not right.
We can count!

1
2/286
2/386
3
3.1
for Workgroups
95
98
Second Edition
Millennium Edition

Perf--!
Wait, that's still not right.
Let's start counting again!

3.1
3.5
4
2000
XP
Vista
7
8
8.1
10

Nailed it!
Yay!

Toshiba T4600C repair [+?] 

I may have underestimated the pre-stretch circumference. I found someone who sells Matsushita FDD belts, giving the circumference as 18 cm, & for about $12 all told. Not bad if it's right, & I'll find out in just a few days.

But if that's right, then the 25 year old belt stretched out another 5 cm in the drive. That's a fantastic amount, but since I pulled them out so easily that they almost fell out on their own, it's also plausible.

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RT @Grungebunny1@twitter.com: Commission for @SaphoraBird@twitter.com and @QueenoftheHens@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Grungebunny1/statu

TMW you find a typo in a toot that got more boosts & faves than any tweet you ever made on birdsite.

Code of conduct 

For quite a few years, I was a member of a hackerspace in DC.

In 2012 or 2013, we voted to institute a code of conduct. It passed handily, 2/3 to 1/3.

That last third pitched a fit in the meeting, resigned, threw their keys on the table, and walked out. That was maybe 30 people

The rest of us threw a party after the door slammed.

Reading online news, 2008:
- go to website
- read news

Reading online news, 2018:
- go to website
- no, don’t share location
- hell no, don’t send me notifications
- consent to cookie warning
- consent to policies
- no, don’t open in app
- no, don’t want the newsletter
- skip inspirational quote
- close full page ad
- read news

🎵 and I say to myself...

... super mario world 🎶

Please insert the disk labeled

Windows XP Professional CD-ROM

into Drive A:

* Press ENTER when ready.

Imagine being so unscrupulous a marketeer that a complaint letter about you survives for nearly 4,000 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complain

*groggily drags self zombie-like into work*
"Time to make the 'puters..."

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