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  1. razark
    I thought of asking, but then came to a sudden realization that I don't really care to know. I have three candles on my desk. I find this much more fascinating than worrying over some online drama.
  2. razark
    We need the heart of any true space program: More paperwork! Purchase request forms. Authorization forms. Authorization forms to request purchases. Authorizations for purchase request forms. Purchase requests for authorizations. Forms about forms! Forms to get more forms! Forms to make changes to the forms about the forms! And meetings! Lots of meetings! Meetings to talk about what we're going to talk about at the next meeting! Meetings to set up meetings to talk about the last meeting! Meetings about the paperwork! Meetings to talk about the paperwork we need to set up the meetings! <sigh...>
  3. razark
    That's exactly what kept me from getting into TNG for so long. I found quite a few of those early episodes not to my liking. Years later, when I started to catch it once in a while, I found I liked it more. (Seriously, the second episode of the series was a rehash of an Original Series episode.)
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    and then
  5. razark
    Hell, it's Slim Pickens. I'm surprised he wasn't wearing it under the helmet.
  6. razark
    Any of them? Or anywhere? If it's on the internet, it can pretty much be posted here in a post.
  7. razark
    Can you not upload the images to another site? (It depends on whether the hassle of doing so is worth the $40/month, I guess)
  8. razark
    There is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet orbiting roughly ninety-two million miles from a small unregarded yellow sun which lies far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy. I'm not really a big fan of that one. Even if it does have digital watches.
  9. razark
    Lately, mostly stuff from 1940-1945. Although it's pretty rare that I'm just listening to music. Mostly it's just been while I'm driving or doing the more physically-active, thinking-uninvolved parts of my job.
  10. razark
    I think you mean this:
  11. razark
    We are talking about the guy that swaps his flight helmet for a cowboy hat, right? The cowboy hat he keeps in the safe with the nuclear war plans?
  12. razark
    @Dman979: Another great classic!
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  14. razark
    Reaction? Not much, since I'm about 100 yards from a presumed ground zero. Does that make me on of the lucky ones?
  15. razark
    It doesn't run very well on the standard desktop machine.
  16. razark
    I still have the ZX81 my father assembled in my desk drawer. I'm missing the converter to hook it up to a TV. And a TV that I could actually hook it to. I even have a couple of cassette tapes with programs on them. I recall the last time I tried to run it (10 years ago?) it didn't work.
  17. razark
    The personal computer revolution being irrelevant, the point still stands that "computers that had screens and inputs" well predate the "late 1980s". One of the reasons I used the screenshot I did.
  18. razark
    Probably not, but I can't be certain right now. It's a PDP-1, first produced in 1959. It's about 15 years after the first electronic computers. It was not uncommon in labs, but mostly because the labs purchased them. Well, "stores" is a bit loose of a term, but computers were commercially available in the 1950s.
  19. razark
    Someone got a little crazy and got the forum up to 88 miles per hour. ... Words fail me. You must be quite young.
  20. razark
    But I've heard from many (obviously highly qualified and knowledgeable) people the KSP is dead, so there won't be any more updates. Wow, this political thread is still running? Have all the mods fallen asleep?
  21. razark
    Customer: It's not working! Me: (checks on status) You did <A>. Don't do <A>. Doing <A> breaks things. Do <B>. Customer: I don't know how to do <B>. Me: (Explains for the umpteenth time how to handle a rather basic job task) That's what I did. Well, do it again, and do <B> instead of <A> this time. ... some time passes ... It's still not working! (Check status. Facepalm.) Do it again, but this time only do <B>. Don't do <A> and <B>. Doing <A> breaks things. I don't know how to do <B>. You just did it. Do the same thing you just did, except for the part where you did <A>, because that breaks things. How do I do that? (Explains, yet again, to what is purported to be a functioning adult, how to do her job.) (head >> desk) If this keeps up, I'm just going to have to tell her the bunny is dead.
  22. razark
    More of a forum user who is simply sick of hearing the same complaint repeated, no matter what Squad says. Has the console situation been a fiasco? Yes. Has Squad handled it the way it should have been? No. Has Squad been providing information about the console version lately? Yes. Has it helped the situation? No. Do console players have reason to be upset? Certainly. Is anything Squad does at this point, short of releasing a complete, working, gloriously bug-free console version going to make console users happy? Of course not. So what remains to be said? Nothing. As someone who has been here for years, I've seen plenty of it from the PC players as well. Might as well scream at a brick wall. Squad will do what Squad will do.
  23. razark
    Since it's been a year, I hearby propose that the console version be officially declared damnatio memoriae, never to be spoken of again. I think that would be much better than Squad trying to get a working version of it, and letting people know it is still being worked on.
  24. razark
    My wife was in a medical unit in the ANG. I can imagine. (Sometimes, I wish I couldn't.)
  25. razark
    I was the one who brought his own dissecting kit to class. Think of it this way: Whether you are involved or not, the animal is already dead. You refusing to do the lesson isn't going to save anything, so you might as well learn from it.
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