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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Yup I tried to go to work this morning but couldn’t make it out of the driveway without the car sliding. Pulled back in as far forwards as possible but an hour later the car has slid back down. It was blocking the sidewalk but I don’t think anyone is walking around in this mess. I was able to get it back in the driveway when stuff started to warm up a little.


  • My first computer was some random 286 with CGA graphics. It was 1994-1995 and I was a little younger than you maybe 7 or 8 and I didn’t find it in the trash but my dad did. It had DOS and some GUI you could launch on top of it. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was but doing research I think it was Norton desktop. I knew enough to poke around the directories and found a gaming one that was stuffed to the gills. Most of the games didn’t impress me as I’d seen graphics with more than four colors by this point but I got absolutely sucked into Elite and Gauntlet was pretty fun too.

    There was a big push at the time for us to type everything up in school because computers were the future. We had a much nicer family computer with windows 3.11 and a 386 or 486 that I mainly used but would get kicked off when my parents were on call for work and had to remote in to fix something. I used my pc to type up my papers and transferred them over to the family pc for printing via floppy.

    A few years later my dad and I pretty much rebuilt the trash pc with hand me downs from the family pc plus a few upgrade parts and got it running windows 95. I remember playing a ton of games on it in that form. Heroes of might and magic 3, warcraft, starcraft, diablo, baulder’s gate, wing commander etc. The best was some weekends we’d roll an ethernet cable down the hallway and hook up the two pcs and my dad and I would play games together.

    I used it in its windows 95 form all through high school in 2005. It never had internet as my mom wouldn’t let me keep the lan cable permanently installed in the hallway but I played a ton of games and wrote every paper on it. Not sure what happened to it but it was by far my most heavily used PC and I was so happy to have it as no one I knew had their own PC just family PCs.

    Great times.











  • You can’t buy a new iPod anymore and I remember the full size ones being closer to 300 bucks. Never had a mini or nano so those may have been closer to 100-150.

    I’ve been using the first gen of this for a few years. Browsing the library is touch screen but you get physical buttons for play/pause, rev, fwd and volume. I find this to be a good combination of controls. I can skip tracks or change volume from my pocket and if I want to browse the library I think a touch screen is faster than clicking buttons or spinning a dial.

    https://store.hiby.com/products/hiby-r3-ii