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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I by no means want to make light of a terrorist incident, but that is a stupid plan. 9/11 set the bar pretty high for terror. Driving a truck through a crowd is basically at the same level as one angry psychopath. I mean, our own kids do worse in their own schools, so it really was a pointless act. It barely even registers on the terror meter for me. Terror just doesn’t work. Even 9/11! All that did was piss us off to the point of re-electing Dubbya. And now we have the TSA. I suppose if the goal was to make us suffer in the long term, I guess they won there.



  • I hope so, too. But you really can’t do much with it without a disk drive. Even Bill there has the expansion unit. Just the computer itself with the tape drive is a horrible way to live. The tape drive can’t play assembly games like the cartridges or floppies, just basic. And of the other popular 8 bit computers of the time, the 99 had the slowest basic implementation. Like, truly a slog to write or play anything with. I found myself never wanting to use it, and so I let it go. It was gorgeous, though.