Especially when teaching chemistry

And they also regularly use whatever vowel suits their mood. It’s like they have a vowels bucket where they’re all mixed up.

And if that fails, it’s dynamite time!

Children? In this economy?

I’m just wondering what kind of a hellhole you’d have to be coming from to choose the US as an asylum country.

I ran wing commander2 in os/2. It wasn’t quite as fast as in dos (or was it for Windows already?) but it was quite playable.

That was on a 486dx50 btw.

Amazing, it’s getting closer to human intelligence all the time!

I really like that one for some reason.

I find it interesting that many people are apparently no longer able to grok maps at all. Even on their phones.

If there isn’t a blue dot, they have no idea where they are. Nor how to go anywhere that isn’t linked by a blue line.

It’s a lost art indeed.

I was given a Brother printer that had spent 10+ years in a damp cellar. I already had one but this one was A3 and that could be ha’dy. Unfortunately it was an ink jet.

So, of course, I had to buy cartridges as the printer was screaming bloody murder. Alas, the whole feeding circuit and the printing head were clogged beyond salvage (the manual insists that it’s not to be left unplugged for extended periods).

But that’s not the point of the story. The whole (compatible) set of four cartridges was something like 17€. Also the scanner still worked just fine.

Looked like a great machine, probably not worth it to fix (new one is about 450€).

Candles used to be a delicacy. A chandelier could feed the family for a week.

Same here. I haven’t fired it up in ages though, and don’t even have my gaming rig up at the moment (nowhere to set it up with ongoing renovations at home). I should probably take a look this summer or fall when my network is finally up again. Apparently they’ve progressed a fair bit. I still have to agree that the amounts and time sunk in that thing are bordering on the insane, whatever the end result is.

Is it a house? A spaceship?

It’s in the manpage!

The “upgrade” they’re speaking of is to the cars of all the executives?

Do they also have to feed the pigeons carrying the data packets?

Infinite alligator cheatcode!

I suppose that makes sense.

Good luck convincing anyone to give yo a day off with that.

Hold on. It’s only temporary.