toynbee

If you only reach out to someone with straightforward requests, it seems like they’re being used. I value the hypothetical you as an individual, rather than a resource that provides me with something.

I’ve grown to realize that most other people don’t seem to feel the same way and I try to accommodate, but every time I start a conversation with a demand, it feels rude to me.

Are you useful? How would I get to Ozma without you?

A company at which I once worked built a functioning server into the frame of a motorcycle. It was after I left, so I’m not sure of the details, including whether it had to be plugged in; but regardless, they called it “the world’s fastest server!” and I think that’s pretty funny.

Almost twenty years ago, I bought a wallet designed to look like an NES controller. I bought it for $15 from GameStop. Astoundingly, it lasted … I think seventeen years. It was still usable but disintegrating pretty fast.

I had that wallet approximately half my life and got lots and lots of compliments on it. It was sentimental. I was sad to see it go - so much so that when I replaced it I bought a wallet display (something I didn’t know existed before) and have it on my mantle to this day.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=woLbaFLoJI8

Like vba! No, wait.

If it helps, another thing that happens in that book is that one of the characters suggests he might bite off the penis of another.

He even suggests that he would be unbothered by doing so due to his Vietnam experience.

So you’re saying you’d participate in the Star Trek wars, rather than the Star Wars trek?

… Obviously …

I was providing information in the hopes of it being useful.

edit: In case it’s unclear: https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmypenis/

A long time ago, I lived in Maryland and a woman moved in with me from … I forget where, actually, but the west coast. I remember when she first got there we were out on my balcony and she was shivering in a sweater and sweatpants, while I was very comfortable in shorts and a T-shirt.

Acclimatization is real.

“Tip of my Penis”

It’s like plumage.

This reminds me of the movie The Lookout. In it, at one point the protagonist is pulled over and asked for his driver’s license. However, he’s mentally disabled and, in that scene, very stressed out; instead he hands the officer a card indicating his disabled status rather than his license and is subsequently released without turning in identifying information, which turns out to be beneficial for him. 2007 was a different time.

Also, I’m not saying OP is disabled or anything, my brain just practices freeform association so the whole “handing over the wrong card” thing connected to a movie I haven’t seen in almost twenty years.

But what happens at seven blasts … Or nine?

When I was a little kid, my mom took me to a public building to use the restroom and, for some reason, allowed me to take a Koosh ball with me. While I was in there, I dropped the ball in the urinal.

The first thing I said when I came out carrying it was “you don’t have to worry, I washed it off!” For some reason this caused some consternation.

I haven’t watched much of John Carpenter’s work, so I can’t comment on this sentiment particularly, but I have always liked a psychological trick Terry Pratchett used to describe the machinations of Granny Weatherwax and her approach to stealth. (Yeesh, I need to read those books again, it’s been years.)

I can’t remember the exact quote and won’t do it justice, but the message is something like “over time you noticed a familiar shape in the darkness, something like a coat, then you noticed what might have been a boot, then suddenly you realized she has always been there.”

Sir Pterry doesn’t use it in the context of horror, at least not for the reader, but I feel like it would fit that well.

I’m unclear on the benefit either has one just an NFS server.

So where do I go for my free mp3 sex now?

Well, I have to respect his commitment and discretion.

I don’t disagree that it was insane!

But no, the reason is that I live in a decently sized old house in a cold area. We’ve dual zone climate control and I’m not sure either heat pump stopped running the whole month. I do run some servers but that’s true year round and most months my power bill is in various parts of triple digits.