I’m 46 and we got a 14.4 modem in around 1992-3 I think. We used gopher and ftp then later hotline to trade shareware, then warez and serialz.

I miss those days, but I don’t miss downloading 8 of 9 parts of a file and not being able to reconnect to the server for the last one.

Most of New England is named that way too. The problem is that the same road ends up with 2 names depending on which direction or end you are in.

Got luck getting an ambulance dispatched to the right place (in my unfortunate experience).

That’s an absurd amount if honking.

Try and record it if you do.

Telling people in New England to use the Shaka hand gesture is gonna end up a lot different.

Best case scenario, they think it’s the “I love you” hand sign. 🤟

As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…

I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.

Jim Crow and the KKK maybe. There’s always a backlash when civil rights are gained.

We’re living through one right now. I hope we make it.

The proof is sort of in the lifespan of the milk.

I haven’t noticed it going bad sooner yet. It’s possible that other adulterants start showing up, but there are still lawyers that can sue companies if they find them fucking around.

That said we need to kick the fucker who are enabling this shit, out of the government ASAP.

We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.

The weather in New England and upper New York is very much like German weather, and sometimes worse. We’ve had snow on the grounds since the 30th of November and it’s only barely reached 0C in the last week.

It was -15C a couple nights ago at roughly the latitude of Rome, next to the ocean too. And only about 50km northwest (inland) it went down to -25C.

This has been a colder December than average for the last decade, but we have mountains that regularly get meters of snow each winter, and they are way lower elevation than the alps too. Also as we all know the last decade has been stoopid warm.

Mt Washington has measured the highest wind speed in the world.

Even then it would be most likely seeded by a probe from so distant that they’d never be able to travel here. Think Voyager probe, but maybe faster. If we’d sent one with a bio seed package and sent it right at the best life supporting planet we could find it’s still gonna be 10s or 100s of thousands of years before it even arrives, then a couple hundred million years for anything to evolve there.

It would be sorta hilarious if we were a distant science experiment though.

Good choice and those wheel weights aren’t too expensive either. Plus they stick in place. I’ve got a bunch left over from replacing rusty ones on my snow tires too!

I was working with the education division about a decade and a bit ago when they had an open source platform with sensors and motors. Then iRobot abruptly killed that division too, right as our project was getting going.

I haven’t felt good about that company since.

I live both north and east of NYC, I want the later sunlight in summer and winter. The first hour of light is wasted on me and many others. Farmers maybe not, but around here that’s pretty much over by late October anyway.

I’ve also lived at the most extreme opposite end of the Eastern time zone in Michigan, and like the late evening sunlight even more!

In printing it’s a little different, but if you need an exact color you can add it to the process, much like adding a varnish or other fancy finish.

Orange was always a problem when I was a designer. It had to be specific, you had to send a Pantone chip along, hope it hadn’t faded or changed color over the years (or buy new ones constantly) and then it still came out different than planned.

I thought that when I got started, but I really enjoy the building and briefly enjoy the results. Then I’m happy for the owner to take it away while I cross my fingers that it all keeps working.

It’s equal parts problem solving, fine motor skills, and perseverance that keep me working on old cars. That’s why I’m not at a dealership or quick turnaround repair place.

It’s also why I’m poor

They can keep Toledo now that they’ve ruined it, but it’s clearly a chunk out of Michigan if you look at the maps.

Fucking Ohio. Except Cedar Point maybe, haven’t be there in 15 years though, it might suck now too.

We were getting on a flight to leave Boston that afternoon. It was a little weird in the airport, but the full situation hadn’t set in yet.

Ironically the flight home from LA a week later was more stressful, as there had been the manhunt and nighttime capture of them at that point.

My brother was house sitting for us just a couple miles from MIT and had to be locked down, but it wasn’t the direction they went after the security guard incident. I think they ended up in Watertown if memory serves.

I’ve been thinking of setting up a node at my local ski area, both for others to use, but also to make custom timing equipment that can send start and finish messages to the timing computer and keep us from having to haul wires up icy race courses all winter.

I’ve never actually set one up or used one yet though, so it’s probably a few years off.

It wasn’t as long when I fist saw it, but I don’t know if it got longer than this as I moved away years ago.

Some people just want to watch the nerds squirm.