Asymptomatic

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April 29, 2005

I have had my hands on a keyboard since high school. Has anyone ever heard of a Commodore Vic20? That was my first computer. I think I hooked it up to a TV for video. I can hardly remember. That was back in the early 80s. It had a whopping 5K RAM and operated at 1MHz. I ran out of memory writing my very first program on it. Initially sold for around $300! Once I outgrew the VIC20, I upgraded to the C64 and an external tape drive. The tape drive actually used regular cassette tapes! In high school, my teacher for our business classes hated me because I knew more about computers than he did. It probably didn’t help that I would goof off in class all of the time because I was so bored.

~ Bonnie

Tom Calls Katie "Holmes"
April 29, 2005

That was a terrible title, I admit, but this is crucially important entertainment news. Tom Cruise is dating Katie Holmes. Forget the fact that he is old enough to be her father. Forget the fact that she is an avowed virgin. This is crazy because I really thought that he and Penelope Cruz were going to make it. I mean, c’mon, THEY HAVE THE SAME LAST NAME (practically). I guess I’m going to have to watch Vanilla Sky tonight and mourn the end of their relationship.

Sniff.

When I was 6
April 29, 2005

…my folks got the first computer that I ever layed hands on. It was an 8088 that they dropped around $4,000 on…and it was the sweetest thing that I’d ever seen. Lame as it might be, I still get excited when I think about that machine. My dad downloaded some nerd games for me from CompuServe (remember pre-Internet CompuServe?), and when I got a little older I started playing around with BBSs (remember BBSs?) on its screamin’-fast 2400-baud modem. Yessir, those were the days…

~cliff
Simplicitas simplicitas -atis f. [simplicity; straightforwardness , honesty, candor].

Write Post Find
April 27, 2005

This is a new WordPress plugin that adds a couple of buttons to the Quicktags toolbar in the post editor: Find and Find Next.

Unzip the archive into your wp-content/plugins directory, then activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel.