jaybird3rd

Agreed. Great years for 8 bit computing and magazines!

1up! I loved reading Kilobaud and Creative Computing by the fireplace at night. Maybe throw in a Popular Science or Omni too.

Enter magazine is great.

Oh look little furry potatoes,its like a buffet.

Trumpy, you can do stupid things!

IT STINKS!

These storage places are shit. They have minimal or no real security. When ours was busted into we closed the account. By some strange coincidence I had moved the bulk of valuable material just weeks before. And we had the locker rented for quite some time! What luck. What was still there was of no interest to whomever broke in.

We wrote the company complaining about security, and when they didn't respond favorably we canceled our account.

Sorry dude. I used to break in to people's storage units and steal their stuff until I realized the part I really enjoyed was cutting the lock.

It's the SE (the "Exclusive Archive Collection" version). It's got the same commentary and special features as the 20th Anniversary DVD. Looks really good, too!

1 up!

excellent, a great transfer and a fantastic LD. enjoy!

I find these early shows fascinating to look at. They may be pretty rough compared to the later shows, but they really show how MST grew and evolved, which I find very interesting. And they're still very funny in their own way.

Here's something I found. I dare you not to sing, "He tried to kill me with a forklift"

Wow, thanks for posting that! It's nice to hear the pure soundtrack, and yes, it's impossible for me to hear it now without hearing "the forklift song."

Bill please come back

A related question: can he lead an audience to clap their hands in unison and chant "Developers!" over and over again?

I'm sure this is why it was such a hard choice for Microsoft. You can't just find someone on the street with these kinds of skills, after all.

maybe they will do what the shareholders want for once, dump xbox and dump bing

I have ad's from my retail store showing 8088 pc's for $1999 and leter ones shoing 286 for $2999,in the day when Dell was just another junk Computer shopper PC

@Ω: Unfortunately, this catalog's pages are larger than a typical flatbed scanner, and it's nearly 1.5 inches thick, which makes scanning difficult.

@SoulBlazer: Shocking indeed. About a year before that catalog was printed, I was 13 years old and saving up for my first PC, a 12MHz 286 that I built from a mix of new and used parts for about $350. It had a 20MB hard drive, a 14" VGA monitor (my first color monitor that wasn't a TV!), and one whole megabyte of RAM.

That same amount of money would buy a whole lot more capacity and computing power today.

Deep Hurting.....

It was a genuinely good movie. Creative sets. I was shocked that it was made in the early 80s, since it looks more like mid-70s.

It's a fascinating movie to look at, but the Sandy Frank version shown on MST is a bit hard to follow.

I'd love to see the "restored" version that the director's son made, but I don't know if it's available in the US.

Okay, just got home safely. This amount of snow wouldn't have fazed me back in New Jersey, but they don't plow the roads down here, which made traveling much more difficult.

I wish someone could fix my parents 1st generation Kindle. Amazon won't repair it or take it back.

The XO is an interesting little tablet inside, by the way; I was struck by how small the mainboard is. Here's the processor it uses:

http://www.infotmic.com/en/products_iMAPx820.asp

@Jess Ragan: I couldn't make an informed guess, except for the obvious one that the display is defective. Condensation on the back side of the screen, perhaps?

Unfortunately, these tablets are definitely not user serviceable electronics. You're supposed to buy new ones, not fix the old ones when they develop problems. Seems pretty wasteful to me.

(This is one of my favorite KTMA shows, so it will be a pleasure to give it a spin.)

I just recently rediscovered MST3K on Netflix... I almost forgot just how funny those guys could be.

It's funny watching those early shows just to see how the foundation formed and things evolved.....

It's been fascinating. Lots of fun little improvised moments that "just happened", much different from when the shows were scripted.

MSTie for LIFE !

Scorpions are actually not that uncommon in the American South (I'm in Alabama). We don't see them often on our property, but some work we've been doing outside recently might have disturbed a den somewhere.

How do you kill a scorpion? Does it go "CRUNCH!" when you do?

I lived in France for 1 year,just on the Mediterranean line, they had scorpions, they were supposed to be harmless

I install XP in a VM the other day. The only way I could get updates was with automaic updates,

Happy with my Mac and Windows 7. I really don't like 8. I get it, and why they're doing it, but it's a shame they seem to have nearly cut support for the older OSes.

Happy Birthday Albert!!

Happy additional trip around the sun marked by passing an arbitrary point in space!

Happy Birthday Al!

Pia Zadora lives!!

... and so does her Golden Globe award!

What I liked so much about Winamp was the ability to quickly drag-and-drop songs into the playlist window, so that I could quickly make a playlist based on what I wanted to listen to that day. I just downloaded Winamp beta for OSX, so we'll see.

I liked winamp, but with the lightweight foobar2000 around, that has pretty much replaced it as the be-all-end-all music player.

I had to move off of WinAmp a few years back, as it was proving to be far too unreliable and was crashing.

There are some great moments in this episode! Servo gets a new voice, and when a kid calls in to invite Joel and Co. to his birthday party, Joel puts up a "Happy Birthday" banner for him. Very nice. That's the kind of sensibility that I miss in later seasons.

Google would never do anything to harm us. What's the emoticon for uncontrollable laughter?

The only MST3K episode where Joel is alone in the theater.

Yes! Joel really took one for the team on that episode, watching the whole movie by himself. He still works in some good lines and has fun playing with the screen, so it only makes you appreciate his improv talents even more. But the theater segments definitely suffer from the absence of Trace and Josh.

"It's Gamera! Get the camera!"

Did the first 3 KTMA episodes ever get released? Last I heard Jim Mallon had the only known extant copies and didn't want to share.

That's what I heard also, and no, they haven't been released yet. A few clips have surfaced, but I'd love to see the whole episodes someday.

Just finished the experiment!

It's interesting to see all the elements in place, albeit in a less-developed form, so early in the series. The robots' voices still need work at this point, especially Servo's "Kermit the Frog" voice, and they're still finding their riffing rhythm in the theater segments. But, even this early, one can see flashes of brilliance.