I remember David Cronenberg once saying in an interview that when Crash screened at Cannes, there were times you couldn’t hear the movie over the sound of people storming out.

I’m still generating par files to accompany my static backups. It’s not a bad bit of extra insurance.

Par2

it can be used for protecting any kind of data from data corruption, disc rot, bit rot, and accidental or malicious damage.

I wouldn’t even know where to do the compressions on a giraffe. Call for a zoo employee is the best answer I can come up with.

Taking credit for the work of people who are barely even credited in the first place is… a way of responding. If only she had disappeared behind the curtain for a moment, re-emerging with everyone there with big hair and guitars and eye shadow and screamed “we are McCarty and the Et Als!!!”

Oh well; next time.

I don’t have a job or car

Delivery driver

Those spicy Skittles.

VIC-20, yes. But dad’s tantalizing work computer, nah. We used to make time to type things and wait together. Like, we would have dinner together and then King’s Quest would have eventually loaded and we would all have walked into a River accidentally together, as a family.