Useless Facts

As I have one of each, I figured I'd measure them.
20 US Dollars: 15.7cm wide, 6.7 cm high.
20 British Pounds: 15cm wide, 8 cm high.
20 Euros: 13.3 cm wide, 7.3 cm high.

 

There are still no suspects in the 1996 abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman.

 

A 1997 study from the office of the Attorney General of Washington State found that around 100 American children per year were kidnapped by violent abductors and had a 74 per cent chance of being killed within three hours of their abduction.

 

Marie Antionette is credited with the ‘Let them eat cake’ crack, that helped fuel the Freanch Revolution. It’s more likely King Louis XIV’s Mrs, Marie-Thérèse, was the one who said it, and about 100 years earlier to boot.

 

^ I read it as her saying, "Let them eat crack" which made me think: was she trying to get all of France high on crack?

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was credited with writing a piece titled ‘Leck mir den arsch fein recht’ (roughly translated as lick my ass well and clean.) That might have been a mistake though, it might have been Wenzel Trnka who put that little ditty together.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber

 

In Finland we used footwraps...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footwraps

...much later than in most countries.

If it raining a little bit, but not too wet snow with huge flannel like flakes that stick to other flakes, we often say that "sataa jalkarättejä". You could translate it like "it is raining footwraps".

 

Ted Bundy was a Republican campaign worker.

John Wayne Gacy was a Democratic precinct captain.

Dennis Rader (BTK) was president of his church council.

 

Back in the day, DOS was a thing.
Something most of the youngsters
will never have the fun of playing in
unless they play around with DOS-Box.

 

CP/M and Unix were my first systems. Wish we could go back actually. Today's OS gets in the way on many good uses.

 

You had 16k? My IMSAI was buffed at 8k. Then bloat hit and I had to upgrade to a 100k floppy system before shelving the whole thing for an Apple Woz gave me to try out. Was horrible until the floppy interface and Basic was ported for it.

My breakup with Apple began when Altos and Cromemco became real. My real stride was hit when SuperSet began networking drives which pushed MP/M out. They then formed Novell and began selling big server based stuff. Drew was unbelievable and they should have pushed Microsoft to a draw.

Between Novell and Ungerman-Bass, I had a pretty good career. Really miss those days~

 

Trevor The Mallard has died.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/farewell-to-trevor-the-mallard-small-pacific-island-mourns-the-loss-of-its-only-duck-and-he-suffered-a-brutal-death/ar-BBSPEhK?li=BBr5KbJ&ocid=mailsignout

 

And again, TRS-80 Model 1.

1977

8k RAM (the big expansion available at the time)

Programs on cassette tape, 20 minute loading time.

Tandy BASIC...

Doesn't get much more primordial than that in the home, my dad was a computer nutter.

 

Hold my beer.....

 

You poor kid!

When I was young we had hardly heard of newest computers like Stonehenge.

We carved our "computers" to the ice of an Ice Age with our toenails. We put dead rats to snow banks and that was our abacus.

ZX8idibidibidiijabadabadoo my ass. You spoiled youngster with your 16kb expansion pack.

This was our expansion pack. And we shared it with the whole family. (Babies were in it.)

https://tuohimuori.kuvat.fi/kuvat/TUOHEN+TIE/Tuohitöitä/Iso+kontti.jpeg

 

I went from the Sinclair doorstop to a succession of Radio Shack Color Computers, then to PCs. Never owned any Apple product.

Still have, and occasionally use, my Tandy 102, and I often boot my laptop into FreeDos from a USB drive to run a DOS word processor (VDE) I've been using for years.

 

As a Finn I must object this.

We can make almost decent bread from the phloem that is between pine trunk and bark. (It's called "pettu" or "petäjäinen" here.)

If you can find some rye flours and make 50-50 mess with rye (NOT wheat, only rich could have it) it's almost good after being without any food for 8-11 days.

It's not toxic. Ok... it rips your guts but it's not toxic.



And it is not our fault that so few foreigners like mixture of ammonia and chlorine. It is good and almost healthy and not toxic no matter what anyone else says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_chloride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice

 

I always forget I'm hard-of-hearing. So when people are talking about politics behind me, I can just switch my hearing aid off and welcome the bliss of silence.

The Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing are, of course, superior in almost every way possible.

 

That was Nerd-vana! 486s with 120mb drive and 4m ram, and SOUND CARDS!!!
And OMG 16 bit SCSI cards!!

This was the time of PS/2 connectors and the precursor of ATX