Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird remember when television came in regular and unleaded?

@futurebird dilithium crystal?

@shippychaos @futurebird
I remember when aol doubled my homework media costs by switching from floppies to CDs.

@aj @futurebird @MCDuncanLab wait wait wait, Victoria Canada, or Victoria Austrialia, or somewhere else?

edit: oh, I see, it must be australia. Thank you anyway.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @Wyatt_H_Knott
I have known about the macintosh variety of apple since about 1985, purely because I read a ton about computers when I was young, and learned that was the origin of the name of the computer. But I don't think I have ever seen or tasted an actual macintosh apple, so I often need to be reminded of it being something that exists outside of books and computers.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @Wyatt_H_Knott
that must be it, because the only other macintoshes are the boots and the computers, and presumably neither boots nor computers would be in school sack lunch, being too tough for youngsters to chew.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @jgordon pizza is a topless sandwich.

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @futurebird oh! Well thank you for looking it up.

@Wyatt_H_Knott @MCDuncanLab @futurebird crushed macaroni sandwich?? wtf?? I mean, that sounds good, but I feel confused.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @jgordon
my mother regularly made fruit preserves with 1/4 the normal sugar, so ...

... mold grew on it. Because, actually, the whole point of using so much sugar is to preserve the fruit!!!

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @futurebird
I grew up in the 1980s in a household that used a ton of margarine, and a little butter, and from memory, the margarine was typically less than 1/4 the price of butter. And back then I think the margarine was still made from murdered whales. Eventually Star Trek 4 and preceeding whale conservation movements changed all that, but there was a lag.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab
I often made my own sack lunch when I was a child, and in those days my dream sack lunch went something like this: thick slice bread, preferably from the end of the loaf so it's tough, thick slice cheese, thick slice tomato, fried egg, 2nd thick slice cheese, 2nd thick slice bread, again preferably from the end of the loaf, thermos of tomato juice. But I think I only got to make that twice, and ended up leaving out ingredients and substituting practically every time.

@futurebird pizza day? WWTF?? why did I never get pizza at school in the 1980s or 1990s?

@futurebird @n_dimension I spent half my morning re-reading _The Two Towers_, and so I keep thinking of LLMs in terms of the melodious voice of Saruman.

@futurebird on the other hand, you have reminded me to take some aleve (220 mg naproxen sodium, but with the all important time release that is missing in most generics (like "kroger"), but present in some (Kirkland, if I recall correctly)), so in about 90 minutes or so my own headache will hopefully recede somewhat. (My apologies if this is no help to you. )

@futurebird in right-wing circles, keeping promises is very much a one-way street; keeping promises made to those higher up in the hierarchy is required, but for those high up in the hierarchy, the freedom to break promises to underlings for the most trivial of whims is the entire point of having power; a right-winger who can't burn his underlings for the silliest of reasons does not have a place in the hierarchy, by definition.

@futurebird
but will you title the sequel "_Psammofive_" and the prequel "_Psammothree_" ?

@futurebird @lienrag when I play it at half speed, it does look like there's some variation in the velocity of the marker. Not sure what kind of variation, but it might be sinusoidal , which is what would make sense to me as well.

@futurebird I'd call it an OpSec failure.

@futurebird yeah - I can't think of any wildlife local to me that make sounds as muppet-like as a domestic cat, although feral cats do, and sometimes coyote come close. Wapiti will also make some very strange "bugling" calls, but they're not especially local to me. (Same state, different counties)