…apprehensible?..well, like, yeah: folks’ve had internet-girlfriends since way back when paper-mail pen pals were a thing…

…that’s okay; some folks drive BMWs…

…i think the social conditioning to marry prince charming was profound; kind of like religion, we all want to believe in someone to sweep off our feet and make our dreams come true…

…i don’t have my finger on the pulse of generation alpha but for awhile i hoped generation Z might leave that baggage behind them…

…that’s already been definitively identified…

…tildes reminds me a bit of usenet culture before the eternal september…

…Планета бурь instead of alien (although the original alien is a fantastic film)…

…oooh, he was in amos + andrew, right?..

…funny thing is aperture science isn’t even included in that graphic but it fits right in…

…i was scrolling usenet around 17.30 CDT on april 29th, 1992 when a friend posted that a riot was gathering outside his window; the news broke about an hour later…

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(yep, but i just woke up as i was typing, so i’ll leave it as a mark of shame)

…get that f*ucking plural-comma apostrophe out of my face…

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…weesa no like da naboo: da naboo tink day so smartie, day tink day brain so big!..

…i dumped them like a rock shortly after the pacific bell acquisition a quarter-century ago; sadly, our current ISP was my wife’s unilateral choice…

We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats.

…that’s not where they’re supposed to go…

…half that time before i realised it was only half the devices on our network, too: spent a long while chasing DNS poisoning, then the other half patching devices from a mobile hotspot…

…in the end, i never actually figured out why only half my devices couldn’t resolve half of the internet, but a hard-power-cycle of our fiber modem resolved the issue…

YOU wOULDN’T
DOWNLOAd A
CIVILISATION

…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…

HE’S A PERSON AND HIS NAME IS ANAKIN!