SolacefromSilence

The ghost of Christmas future

That’s so you don’t cool off your coffee!

They didn’t even have someone pull a Colin Powell and share a cartoon of WMDs. Has the NY Times published an article about how this is actually the right move?

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, Essays: First Series, 1841

My experience was with a 386, so def in agreement with you. Thanks for mentioning

Some games were set to run with an expected speed, I think a Sierra RPG or two. Occasionally a game would run too fast with the turbo on or too slow with it off. Thanks for reminding me of that, it’s kinda funny in retrospect.

Those turbo buttons were awesome. I almost want to wire one in, even if it just lights up and maybe turns on a tiny dc motor for the sound effect.

Wow, they actually charged him. I thought this was usually a retire early situation and the prosecutor shrugs their shoulders?

It could fit on a trailer… it might even be more effective!

Meritocracy is just Dei Gratia lying about how hard they worked.

There were Perot voters in the 90’s, some had the same sentiment.

2 more weeks

Thank you for being so generous!

Telephone booths were still pretty common until the early 90’s

Behind every great fortune there is a great crime

Putting his real name like this on the sign would at least make him seem like an adult:

Well, they’re using his preferred name rather than birth name… they wouldn’t prevent anyone else the same courtesy, would they?

Dude’s batting 0/2 and trying to shift blame… sounds like he doesn’t have much of a personality either.

Is the perfect prediction machine AI? If so, I pull the lever each time.

Why would the GOP care about Venezuela?

In Russia, they make windows off all sizes