Darrell Root

When that poster said “good news”, perhaps he meant good news for India

Good news for India you mean?

Nice photobomb! I got two shots of the F35s south of Cupertino at 12:42pm 11/8/26. Presumably the same group. There were four, but one was flying loose so my pictures only captured three.

Netrek (1989) was the first Internet team game. College students played it over the Internet before the World Wide Web was created. It introduced teams, logins, saving stats between games, chat, and switching the network protocol between TCP/UDP during play (for performance reasons). It’s still played occasionally. Newer clients get implemented for newer operating systems periodically. Originally we played it at 5FPS.

Can confirm!

I wonder if my set still works?

Conan The Librarian approves!

It sounds like you need this book:

I took some 15-20 year old items to the Apple retail store for recycling. The 20-something retail employees seemed very interested 😳 in some of them. Someday I’m going to need to dispose of my (nonfunctional) Mac Portable 😂

Here’s the TSR price list at that moment in time: note that the Monster Manual is the only AD&D book. This is from the back of my copy of Metamorphosis Alpha. Pardon the pencil marks: that’s a much younger me making purchasing decisions 😢

Price list from the back of Metamorphosis Alpha. Note how the Monster Manual was the only AD&D book at this time.

Some of the smoke from the accident. This is taken from Wolfe, half a mile West

Every computer science major knows “the dragon book” 😂

Someone got these two textbooks mixed up 😂

In 1997 a script I installed malfunctioned and deleted the designs for the 233 MHz Pentium II, then under development, from Intel’s servers. An entire building of chip designers were sent home for the day. Being honest about the cause (and a successful restore, which took 18 hours) saved my job. IT managers know mistakes happen, but dishonesty gets you fired. Video of me during that 18 hour restore:

I loved my Outback 😢 Someone (not a police officer) executed a perfect PIT maneuver on me.

In my house I have several of these water leak detectors. Anytime I work on a sink/toilet I relocate one to that location. Won’t really help for a professional plumber, but very helpful for a homeowner. Only annoyance is they use an CR123A battery which is more expensive.