That Moment...

Console gaming, circa 1977:

 

Whats Nintendo? -Hudson Hawk

 

Terribly underrated movie. Complete crap, of course, but still terribly underrated.

 

Wow...

And thirty years hence we now have X-Box One, Switch, and PS4.

 

Forty years, but yeah.

 

I remember my family's first printer. Epson TM-930. I would print out anything and everything just because I liked the noise. We got ours in '91 when I was six, and I found out the hard way printers run on ink. I think I spent six months working off the debt for a new cartridge.

 

and 2000 years ago this baby was the hot stuff


side note: it didn't use some of the more modern mathematics and astrological projections of it's time. It used the older Babylonian stuff. It just makes one wonder what else it out there. Got to love the retro tech.

 

GoT S08

I'm waiting for that moment when...

Spoiler: GoT

1) Tyrion Lannister meets his wife Sansa Stark
2) Lyanna Mormont meets her cousine Jorah Mormont
3) Arya Stark meets her old friend Sandor Clegane
4) Jon Snow meets Sansa and asks "But where is Littlefinger?"
5) Jaime Lannister meets a wheelchaired Bran Stark
6) Daenerys Targaryen meets Jaime Lannister, murder of his father (yes, this will not be the first time they meet, but still)
7) Samwell Tarly meets Daenerys Targaryen, murder of his father and brother
8) Daenerys 'Stormborn' Targaryen says 'Dracarys' again
9) Aegon 'Snowborn' Targaryen says 'Dracarys'

 

I love you for this...

 

Ancient technology just has that affect on people. Also I have to correct myself. It should really be "astronomical" instead of "astrological". Massive fopaux , and if you ever want to insult an astronomer that's how you do it.

 

For those who don't know what this is:

Antikythera mechanism

 

TMW you see that your nephew has won a medal in cross country.

A twenty-seventh place medal.

Out of thirty.

Congrats?

 

When I was growing up, they at least had the common sense to call them "participation awards." Even then, it seemed silly to me. "Congratulations, you participated!" Yeah, because the alternative was detention. I'm all for encouraging kids to participate, and giving them incentives to do so, but I think it's enough to encourage them to find it within themselves. If you're the sort to truly not be interested in cross country (for example), maybe you ought to check out chess club or something (I was in chess club, so that's not an insult).

Unfortunately somebody's idea of "make it fun to participate" has turned into "everyone's a winner." Then these kids get into the job market and (hopefully) figure out that first place is first, second is second, and so on. It pays to be a winner.

 

Participation Awards.

 

I've been sick. I had a chicken burger. That's like chicken soup right, but in burger form?

 

That moment when googling Icelandic swear words is actually legitimate research.

 

That moment when you're watching the last episode of a series, and you know it's going to end with the protagonist being killed of because that's pretty much a given in that genre, but it's still a massive kick in the feels.

 

TMW you know it's going to end with the protagonist being killed because it just came to light that the star is guilty of rape and/or sexual harassment.

 

Not this one, but that would be a good reason.

 

TMW I'm thinking I need to get back to my fantasy... or writing in general.

 

I don't know enough about boating to know exactly what he did wrong, but wow... that was some poor sailing.