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Gauloises
Smoke
Algorithms
a different type of thinking
Tonight mechanics of language ring
like bells or machinery
Or lust
after longing
Circuits cut on paper
Writ on paper
Walls of paper
carefully positioned
Nights and nights
Missing it missing you missing.
Time to close to end it
and/or just hit Enter
Smoke
Algorithms
Cigarettes
ReturnChurchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
-Apocryphal
But, given the replay-ability of Night Driver, still a fair trade.
That game is impossible to solve without spoilers, so far as I'm concerned. And lord knows I tried. As far as Infocom goes, the only ones I managed to solve unassisted were Zork I and II and Planetfall, all of which are considered on the easy end of the spectrum. The later games were much more complex. Along with HHG2TG, Lurking Horror was really difficult too.
Tons of fun all of them, though.
Gosh I miss my C64.
From NPR this morning... https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947918291/google-researcher-d...
If anyone out there knows how to obtain Lotus and get it running in Linux, please please let me know!
Because, not to put too fine a point on it, sc, sc-im and oleo are completely useless without months of self-training, and even then... meh.
Love the HOLE HAWG analogy about tools that do what you tell them to, immediately and sometimes dangerously, regardless of whether what you told them to do was right.
I could do with some case color options, but that's a small niggle given what this thing can do. And I appreciate the focus on price point. Old school design constraints.
A Tiny Mistake https://pastebin.com/gZa36S0K
My god how I loved that show. Tim Hunkin is such a weird and wonderful person. And though the show sorta predates the modern internet, as soon as the tech was available/undertandable to him, he put the whole damn series online for download (initially on an FTP server) for free.
The episode where he and Garrod make a an audio recording with some rust filings and Scotch tape (sticky tape ;) was simply amazing.
It's really impossible to express how many times a day this comes in handy. The most mundane information usually, for me, is also the most forgettable, and a quick jot fixes that.
And finally, when the thing is cashed, though most of the notations within are completely useless after a couple days, the object itself has, through wear and abuse, become a compelling and aesthetically pleasing artifact.
I haven't power-read anything so dense in a long while. And I'm not even a Star Wars fan (other than having been 9 years old when A New Hope (as it's apparently called now) came out in theatres, and therefore having absorbed it all by cultural osmosis ever since.)
Doesn't matter if one is a Star Wars fan... the Millenium Falcon evokes instant nostalgia and smiles in most anyone over 40. And yes, it was fast enough for this old man, anyway.
REM
Yes, it's the comment marker, standing for REMARK.
But it's also, metaphorically, a line that is "asleep."
Genius.
Fuck everything about that.
My friend from middle school, Mike 'the douche' W. is now the MAYOR OF A FUCKING CITY. Just no.
BECOME an authority on a given subject (takes a little longer, is much more valuable long term.) This also means you have to pick your battles... life is only so long, pick your shit and get good at it.
All that being said, community knowledge is a GOOD thing. We don't exist in an isolated state, the tech. community in particular. There's no one person who knows how all this shit works anymore, so thoroughly documenting what we do know, and sharing it globally is also incredibly valuable in a communal sense. None of us makes this stuff happen, whether you like it or not, we're all working as a team.
Oh, and also, passing on some wisdom here... never trust a contractor with clean boots.
Somewhat skinny on details, but it's a start and mentions several other potential sources.
Google translation: http://bit.ly/qNv0K
I have neither the time nor inclination to aid in creating the Wikipedia page, but am very interested in seeing it done well.
-R