A Modest Proposal: The Thread Hijack Drinking Game [vanity]

Still me. | Today | Me

[Monkey Face]

OK. I will try the above listed items, including the cupcakes with chocolate frosting that were left. If there are any left.

I figure if an after-market part is new at a parts warehouse, I shouldn’t have to spend top dollar for the same part with a top dollar parts warehouse when I can get it for a lot of $$$ less.

When all is said and done, I still like to eat and I like nice clothes...especially since I’ve lost 40+ # and am still losing...

[Monkey Face]

Actually, I looked down the throat of a carburetor the last time I looked at Busdaddy’s racecar... THAT engine, I understand! LOL!

[Covenantor]

I have a TRS-80 big floppy drive salvaged from my dad’s office long ago. Weighs about 5-6 lbs. Amazingly heavy castings for the chassis and motor.

[TheOldLady]

Thank you, sweet, generous friend.

[HKMk23]

There’s one around my mother’s house. somewhere.

The booger about those old things — and the thing that killed off the TRS-80 — was the shielding was nonexistent. If you switched the drive on or off with a disk in it, the resulting pulse in the fields around the power circuitry would nearly always ruin the data on the disk. The TRS-80, itself, exited the market because it wasn’t feasible to make the unit comply with FCC Rules regulating radio frequency emissions.

http://www.trs-80.org/why-was-the-model-i-discontinued/

[Covenantor]

Interesting article. Thanks for the background.

[Tax-chick]

You’re welcome. I get very anxious over my cats, too!

More fun animal facts:

Zebras’ night vision is as good as cats’ and owls’.
Killer whales can live 60-70 years in the wild.

[Monkey Face]

The thing about orcas, I knew, and I probably knew about zebras, too, but forgot it with all the other stuff cluttering up my brain. Interesting stuff, that!

You have FReepmail.

[Tax-chick]

Got it.

The zebra book also said that biologists in South Africa are trying to breed some zebras back to the extinct Quagga, which was a close relative of the “standard” plains zebra.

[Monkey Face]

THAT is interesting!

I need to get something to eat, then take my pills and go to bed.

Some days are just plain crappy.

[Gefn]

I’m going to pray for your kitty Bobbie as well. You know how I feel about cats.

Keep me in the loop dear Lady. Bless you and all your kittehs.

[Tax-chick]

Ostriches have the largest eyes of any land animal.
De todos los animales terrestres, los avestruces tienen los ojos mas grandes.

(It was a bilingual book.)

[ThomasThomas]

Did bablefish do me good with the translation? Tag line

“duct tape”

[NoCmpromiz]

You could ask bablefish what a royal turkey is...

I mean in Spanish, not the crowd in Wash DC..

On the subject of duct tape, Spanish speaking wife of a friend calls it “la cinta gris” (the gray tape)..

[W.]

I love farting around with the old stuff. All I have here is the iMac from 2001 and a 1st gen NES with 4 weak games from 1985 [Superspike V’Ball/Dick Tracy/Spot: The Video Game/WWF WrestleMania]. A co-worker needed cash, so I made a $30 purchase to help him. Played it once. Whee and here it sits. :)

[Tax-chick]

Looks fine to me.

[Tax-chick]

[Gefn]

Beautiful kitteh. Is it thr same kitteh from the previous two days?

[Tax-chick]

This is a brother of the previous kitteh.

[Gefn]

Ah, you can see the family resemblance.

Very handsome family.