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Meanwhile, here in British Columbia, my parents (74 & 80) are finally able to get their first shot today.

Folks my age are slated to get a first shot sometime this summer...

@ls650: I hear you, and it's a mess everywhere.  Friends in Regina just went into another lockdown; from what I hear, Sask is having some issues getting everything taken care of.  Hopefully BC does better.

I'm scheduled to get mine tomorrow. We will see.

Idiocracy?   Loved it!  FOX really dropped the ball on that one,  huh?  No reason in the world it shouldn't have gone to the theater.  You'd think Mike Judge, the man behind Office Space (the Pink Floyd of DVD sales...Continuously selling) would have been given free reign, but nooooo...Perhaps it really was the advertisers,  i.e. the fact they used real world corporations and didn't exactly make them look good...Starbucks?  We don't have time for a hand job right now...

What's weird is that I can remember seeing posters advertising it dotted around a couple of places in L.A.  Checked into the premise, decided I wanted to see it, and it was gone.  This is on a timeframe of maybe two or three days between seeing the poster and being ready to buy a ticket.

From what I understand, the studio was contractually obliged to release it, so did the absolute bare minimum that they could in that regard and still fulfill the terms of the contract.  My suspicion is that they were afraid that their audience would see too much of themselves in the film and feel insulted

^Yeah,  part of me didn't want to state the (almost) obvious.  One network probably thought this was a documentary and not a satire, LOL

"Did you eat a lot of acid, Miller? Back in the hippie days?"

"Repo man is always intense."

Fun fact: If you use the ignore feature only to avoid seeing people who only exist on this site to whore out their podcasts or YouTube channels, you never have to un-ignore because you KNOW they aren't talk about you!

Ignoring works the best with self control and the ability to scroll past whatever that is not worth someone's time. It feels great to know you could just shrug it off and not bother about some people/topics/anything pointless.

3-year-old Macbook Pro.  This is one of the ones that got the crappy keyboard that always fails, so when, in January, it failed for the second time I sent it back.

The upgraded keyboard is actually usable (though nothing particularly stellar), but it came back with a replacement battery that started refusing to charge above 80% after three or four weeks.  That 80% number then began gradually creeping downwards, followed by the bottom of the case getting very warm and slightly bulged.

Thanks!    Hmmm...I haven't been very warm and slightly bulged since the Bush era, LOL

My 2016 MacBook Pro bit the dust awhile ago, and I replaced it with a 2019 16 inch model (and some some retro games and systems had to go out the door for $$ ugh...). Couldn't wait for the Apple Silicon ones coming late this year, and I need to run Windows natively.

All that said, it really points out what a POS that butterfly keyboard is (2019 16 inch and all 2020 13 inch went back to normal keyboards). Also, it seems like Apple makes a major design change, the first couple of generations have problems. Sometimes thinking differently is not in a good way...

Nope, saved the keyboard.  The 800XL is back up and running, playing Jumpman over TNFS.

Was a good movie i have watched countless times.

• (Steve Buscemi) "Anybody gives us any static, I shove this in their face."
• (Adam Sandler) "Ahhh."
• (Adam Sandler) "Yeah, but remember that fat kid on "Hard Copy" with a toy gun. The cops zapped him with a taser until he went bald."
• (Steve Buscemi) "And then he sued them for a million bucks when his pubes didn't grow in."
• (Adam Sandler) "Still got no hair on his balls, man."

(Not quiet the same)  But,  how many times have you guys seen Dazed & Confused (countless for me) and The Stoned Age (Dozens haha)?   If you haven't seen them,  those are my recommendations :=)

Yeah those were some good movies too, lets not forget about Cheech and Chong. I also remember Biodome which i thought was good back in the 90's but never watched it since. So who knows if it sucks or i just liked it back in my stoner days haha

with inflation, I think that makes it equivalent to a 378.33k now!   Or wait.. maybe that's not how that works

Mmm, a tank full of Slurpee!

Threw an old electric blanket over the top of the engine, added antigel into the tank, heated the fuel filter with a heat gun, plugged in the block heater, and am waiting to see what, if any, difference that has made in the morning.

Managed to get fuel flowing again and antigel into the fuel system up to the injectors.  I did discover, however, that one glow plug has crapped out and another is getting weak.  Fortunately, we only have about a week of this weather to contend with before it goes back up above freezing.

Damn!!  Godspeed and get better!!

Sweet - the R: handler is installed at boot, so most of what it should be doing seems to be working.  Have cables with 850-specific serial pinouts en route, so should hopefully be good to go once they arrive.  This opens up the possibility of running the BBS directly on the Atari, which is a rabbit hole I'll go down once some time frees up.

Faiyaa! Faiyaa! Saiko sorujaa!

The US version's vocals just don't do it for me.

Yes, I have had several. They all arrived, but took 1-2 months.

@batari: oof.  Well, that's what I was beginning to suspect.  Appreciate the insight.

In a somewhat oblique way, the Elk is related.

I have one of those!

Hopped up on goofballs?  Careful there or the Comics Code Authority will not let you publish. 

Speaking about old comic books, I recommend checking early Superman comics. When a criminal dies, Superman feels happy and screams "he got what he deserved!". Editors had to call the writer out for that after a couple of years and that was the beginning of his moral code we know today.

About cats, yeah, they're Q. I mean, cute, they're cute. Don't know what I was thinking!

https://www.amazon.com/MOSISO-Keyboard-Protector-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B00HXZ34DU/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=MOSISO+Ultra+Thin+Keyboard+Cover+Protector&qid=1611894595&sr=8-2

Well, you never know.  The VCS did see a release, so anything could happen.

Anything's possible,  I mean maybe someday GameStop stock will go up...(wait)

I've circumvented my dislike of whatever the default window manager is that shipped with Raspbian Buster by just RDPing into a Windows 10 VM.  Sure, that gives me other things to dislike, but at least they're ones I'm able to work with.

FWIW, I'd use Windowmaker on this thing if I felt like spending the time to install it and switch over, but then I'd still be stuck with things like no decent O365 support, etc.  I just want to get work done, and screw around on here. )

No VCS?

I'm just not ready to unleash that sort of raw computing power.  The last thing we need is for it to scorch the paint off of the walls with its blistering performance.

They're giving you back a small, small portion of what they took from you in the first place.

And, annoyingly, the US is also one of a few countries that taxes income earned outside of the US above a certain point.  Ugh.

Haha, "thinking" is a bit tough on me, makes life unfun sometimes, 'specially Government stuff, but I never thought about the taxes that way, but that totally seems right to me.

Not saying "Right"/"Wrong", I suppose everyone has a responsibility to "do their part" to keep the country running, whatever their country is, even mebbe up to an interest free loan to the Government, tho again, that's "thinking", and my head hurts already, I just thought the new perspective was funny/interesting/on point.

Turnaround here has been 12h to 48h since about last October.

Here it takes 1-3 days to get results for the State tests;  I quit doing Rapid Tests as they weren't 100% and they still required you to get State test results, plus they were $80 out of pocket.  Yeah they really swabbed my brain on those tests...Some people I work with got the newer test where they use saliva or something and it doesn't hurt, which would have been nice.  Good luck on it!

I was teary when I came out of the test booth when I got the test.

I hope you get better!  There is other ailments out there, so it might not be COVID, but a second test couldn't hurt.  Best of luck!

Appreciate the thoughts, everyone.  Just rebooked both of us for testing again tomorrow, so we'll see what shakes out.  We're being very careful about this as my wife had COVID last February when we still didn't really know what was going on, so neither of us wants to take any chances.  The most annoying part is that the symptoms are mostly-interchangeable with colds and the 'flu, and not everyone will have the same (or any) symptoms, so it's hard to tell what it is that I'm potentially dealing with.

The loss of smell and taste is what has me most concerned, though - I've been using increasingly-insane amounts of different hot sauces on things to try to get a read on where that one sits, and so far I'm getting a lot of heat with very little to no flavour.  Did manage to successfully mace myself with udon steam last night, though, so at least my eyes are working properly.

On the plus side, at work people who had it said their sense of taste went away but it comes back;  it just may take a while...