…i consider 2001 the watershed year after which it well and truly shed its legacy, flawed though it may have been…
all the other regular bank holidays everyone else gets.
…“everyone else” gets six, if they’re fortunate to land a salaried position: new year’s day, memorial day, independence day, labor day, thanksgiving day, and christmas day; all those other unobserved holidays are a thing for the public sector and finance only…
…no longer afford?..man, the last proper vacation i took was in nineteen-ninety-mother-f*cking-eight…
…i cast speak with animals and asked the horses their names: turns out they were darryl and his brother darrell…
Frog Fractions
Universal Paperclips
Freedom Force
Pilotwings 64
…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…
…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…
edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..
…so it used to be pretty common in small towns (pre-walmart mainstreet USA) for hardware stores to include a toy department, usually downstairs in the basement, much like how drugstores typically did double-duty as lunch counters…
…the small town where i went to college, though, enjoyed a stereo/mattress/ski shop, and i never wrapped my head around that combination…one of the local grocery stores (pre-hypermarket) also had a full computer department; the most well-appointed amiga retailer i’d ever seen, replete with rendering hardware and video equipment…
…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…
People who use YYZ often live further than that so add any additional time from that.
…ah, that explains the rush…
…i’ve waited thirty years for pinch-rolling to become socially-acceptable again: is now my time to shine?..
…more wakko than yakko, i guess?..
…skinny pants look skanky as f*ck and grotesquely unflattering: just wear shorts instead…
…i mean, let’s be fair: voyager set the bar so low the franchise nearly fizzled-out in its wake and arguably never recovered…
…when even the drafthouse is doing substandard presentation, what’s the point of going to theatres anymore?..they lost the plot when they added recliners and jumped the shark upon selling to sony…
…at least through ninety-five they still ran music videos overnight and weekly themed shows (120 minutes, headbanger’s ball, MTV raps) at specific timeslots, but by the mid-nineties music videos had been relegated to graveyard-shift filler as the network increasingly focused on conventional programming…
…fourteen years is a pretty fair assessment, methinks…
…my grandmother never drove in ninety-one years after suffering a siezure in her youth; now i work with a girl who does likewise…
…child of ulster scot farmers, here: yes, we tan a bit, but working outside leaves our necks perpetually red nonetheless, even with long collars and hats…
…it’s called a farmer tan for good reason…