I did check it out… very business like and thorough. Well done.
So… Spoon, Lady and I want to do a Sneakers frak. You in?
what he said
Bloody Catholics! Filling the world with bloody kids they can’t afford to bloody feed! 
Still, my future kids will either get their gifts from Amazon, or they are not getting anything.
Black Friday, 2021: Millions dead when Amazon.com’s overloaded server created a feedback loop in customers’ neural implants. 
He chose… wisely?
Thank you both. I was hoping to make it accessible while not overstating the obvious.
Hells yeah! I’ve been thinking about that ever since I saw that there’s a GWCer named “Setec Astronomy”. 
Scifi movies and books are full of ideas for interesting interfaces to directly interact with a computer. But in reality, in the near 30 years of personal computing, the only thing about the computer that hasn’t changed one bit is the damn keyboard. (And to a lesser degree, the monitor.) A computer will get smaller, faster, more ubiquitous and cheaper. But we will still interact with it using a monitor and keyboard, in 30 years from now.
what did it for me was DBT’s newly listed gamertag
If I remember the movie correctly, Setec Astronomy was an anagram for “I am Voldermort”. I might be wrong.
When I was a little geekling, my dad used to bring home punchcards from the giant refrigerated computer room. I’m sure that people who spent their whole day punching holes in cardboard never imagined that that would someday be considered be obsolete and kind of silly…
Statistical link between popularity of Black Friday shopping and the prevalence of the Catholic pandemic has not yet been scientifically demonstrated.
Of course! My name is my passport!
I thought it was “The Da Vinci Code”?
“the Catholic pandemic”? ouch
What is even more surprising is that the punch-card interface has NOT been completely wipe out off the face of the Earth, as evidenced by the hanging chad fiasco in Florida’s 2004 electoral clusterf**k. Then again, we shouldn’t be surprised that old things are still alive and kicking in Florida.
I’m only kidding… I like Catholic people, they are adorable. I sometimes wish I were raised Catholic.
reminds me of one of my favorite “classic” movies: Hepburn/Tracy’s Desk Set. huge EMERAC spitting out all those cards and smoke and Tracy fixing it with a hairpin
In my recurring dream, Mary McDonnell is feeding me egg-rolls, telling me how much it’d turn her on if she heard me say the word, “passport”. In the background, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown is being butchered in an atrocious Chinese accents. There’s an outdoor cocktail party going on next door.
Weird dream, eh?
hmmm–MrBS? your comments?
So, gang… what’s the best date for Sneakers Frak?
my impulse is to say, “tomorrow!” but I think we should give others the chance to join
You are truly a wise woman to be so patient. My head says “tomorrow”, but my heart says “now”!