I remember taking a computer class for a quarter and asking my mom if *we* could get a mouse. Because PCs didn't have mouses back in the day.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Oct 26, 2006 9:38:20 am PDT #5804 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
megan walker - Oct 26, 2006 9:38:24 am PDT #5805 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Finally read the Nerve article and, having lived and dated in both DC and NY, can attest to the fact that that article is bullsh*t on so many levels. I get the feeling that while she may have run in the intellectual or artistic power circles in NY, she did not run in the financial power circles, where she would have found a lot of the same behaviors she thinks one finds "only" in DC.
However, I will say that when I went to Georgetown people did seem to have this weird thing about SAT scores--Of course, at the time I was there, not only was it transitioning reputation-wise so there was a pretty big gap between Senior and Freshman scores, there were also with five separate schools with very different SAT thresholds for admission.
sarameg - Oct 26, 2006 9:39:04 am PDT #5806 of 10001
They had them at the elementary school. That's about all I remember about them, though by that time, we had a mac at home. Public schools=obsolete hardware then.
flea - Oct 26, 2006 9:39:19 am PDT #5807 of 10001
information libertarian
There's a "root" joke to be made here, but I'm not finding it.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2006 9:40:10 am PDT #5808 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I bought a Mac Classic in 1991 and couldn't give it away in 1996. Craziness.
shrift - Oct 26, 2006 9:40:36 am PDT #5809 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I learned to program on a IIe!
If by program I mean "make color pictures with pixels," and indeed I do.
Dana - Oct 26, 2006 9:44:48 am PDT #5810 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
We have an Apple IIe in our guest room closet!
I'm not allowed to get rid of it, for some reason.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2006 9:45:50 am PDT #5811 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have an original mac. I hope to be getting rid of it in the next couple of months. It still has data on it.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2006 9:46:39 am PDT #5812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hope to be getting rid of it in the next couple of months.
But you only just adopted him!
Okay, I'm going to go back to making my costume now.
msbelle - Oct 26, 2006 9:49:40 am PDT #5813 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
HA!