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  • fck morning people
    fck morning, people
    fck, morning people

    ...the last thing i want is to interact with another living soul before 11.30, preferably not before 13.30: i wish they were dead, or at least not a part of the world i live in...

  • ...i work with mostly first and second-generation immigrants from all over the world, and a common pattern i've noticed among established first-generation immigrants is strong anti-immigrant sentiment; a little bit that they emmigrated to get away from those people, a little bit fck-you-i-got-mine...

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  • ...almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren't interested in reading...

    ...most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..

  • ...also, jiggle it to check if you're in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you're stopped at a light, better jiggle it...

    (okay, that's an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)

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  • ...those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them...