Everyone wants on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!

Commodore basic on the PET computer, back around 1981-1983. My grade school had three of them in the library, and since my mom was a teacher, she would sign one out for summer break and bring it home if any were available.

Florida Man has a badge.

There’s a town of Horneytown and Horneytown Rd here in North Carolina. Heard that the country store there does just that, selling shirts and whatnot. I’m guessing the road signs disappear around there frequently too.

I set on Lemmy.zip during the blackout protest on Reddit, and haven’t gone back to it. Don’t miss it. Lemmy has grown a lot in the past few months. It’s only a fraction of the Reddit userbase size, but steadily filling out and getting better.

Making up coconut curry chicken one evening, accidentally grabbed a can of sweetened coconut cream, not coconut milk. Did not taste good. At all.

Had a red '76 like this in high school. Fun car, but the road salt from Michigan winters ate through the doors and quarter panels. After lots of work and a paint job, looked amazing. Quick sold it before all the bondo could fall out.

Ah, shucks, someone already did that one.

“Fu@k you, I won’t print what you tell me!” -new HP slogan.

I loved this game for a few days, the main character’s internal dialog is fantastic. But it’s such a slow slog walking every section of the map trying to get from one place to another. Similar to Grim Fandango or Myst, it gets to be tedious and painful.

I’ll have to look at Ublock. I used AdGuard for a while but can’t get it to function with a VPN (except for the one they offer, which was terrible).

My spoon is too big!

I’d played Doom with people on networked computers in college, but that wasn’t really “internet”. But right at the end of the 90’s when we started getting online game servers was great. Being able to play Unreal or Battlefield 1942 with random people from anywhere was amazing, and very addicting. Servers would have like 8 or maybe 16 player slots. More than that and lag would make the games unplayable. You’d keep refreshing the server lists looking for an open slot with a low ping, and join in. Actual early internet wasn’t terribly exciting. Pretty much just text only, maybe some tiny graphics, since download speeds were unbearably slow.

It’s not a new thing for the Republic side. Reagan refused to do anything about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, or even speak about it publicly, since he believed it was God’s punishment against the gay community. Before it started spreading and killing his white Christian community too, the administration was fine letting it kill off the people he hated.