My sister, the youngest of us three, used her doll that my mom made for her to beat up on my brother and I. Tore the arm off. Mom was pissed. And we never did anything to deserve it! Saints, I tell you, Saints! 😉
That was the first hard drive… It cost many thousands of dollars. Most users only rented them… for thousands a month.
By users, I mean universities and corporations. The idea that you or I would one day have a computer was preposterous.
IIRC, they didn’t have RAM as we know it.
They ran using a few Kb of core memory, but they didn’t have the random part of random access.
My first IBM “compatible” computer (bought 3rd hand in about 1992) would have been a miracle to people from 1956, though it was way behind the curve when I bought it.
It had 640Kb of RAM. Its 5Mb hard drive… the equivalent of the one in the picture… was only about the size of my hand, but way thicker, and weighed about a pound. I couldn’t have Windows because it filled 5Mb, so you needed a 10Mb drive.
Now I have a low end smartphone, which I got free from T-Mobile in 2021, when they took over Sprint and made my CDMA Sprint phone useless. It has 4Mb of RAM and 64MB of storage, which most people consider barely adequate in 2026 (but it’s fine), and weighs… I dunno… half a pound?
Imagine telling those guys I’m carrying 64 Mb of storage in my pocket.
I just looked up the specs of my iPhone 12 Pro: hex-core processor, quad-core GPU, 6Gb RAM, 256Gb Storage.
Scary specifications for something that you can carry around in your pocket, and does all the tasks that would have taken four, five, or more, different devices only twenty five years ago!!
I use an iPhone because the rest of the family use them, and a couple of them are Apple freaks so we all ended up buying iPhones to connect across the three different continents we live on. I bought it used to replace the iPhone 8 I was quite happy with, (Not paying Apple retail prices!), didn’t need new, just one that could run the software I needed to connect to my car (Yes, I know how that sounds…), and this one will last me for several more years.
My phone is Android.. I’ve always had Samsung but this had better specs than the free Samsung they offered… remember this was 5 years ago… actually 4, cos it was December 2021.
It’s a One Plus Nord-something, which some people laugh at… but I gotta say, as far as I can tell, it’s not lost any speed in 4 years, and its charge lasts as long as ever. It makes the strongest connection of my mobile devices, including my 2024 tablet.
I never think of it as old, or needing replacement. It might be different if I were a heavy duty gamer, or constant music downloader… But it does YouTube fine, and my NYT word games, so I’m set.
I know, I know… you don’t have to tell me, it was no doubt a scrap, and drywall is cheap, and he was just doing it for the video…
But as a person who spent years remaking and repairing vintage clothing, sewing with old fabrics, lace and even some leather…
it just makes me cringe to watch someone cut a patch out of the very center of that orange piece, and render the rest of it useless.
I couldn’t do it.
Even if the rest of it were probably headed for the trash heap, I couldn’t cut out the center and needlessly waste the rest, without knowing for sure that I wouldn’t need it… and probably not then.
Funny… a friend, long ago, adopted a very high energy little fluffy dog that she named Tsuris… And what she said to me when introducing him was almost exactly that line.
“Saint Liphardus (or Lifard) was a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France.”
Dunno why he has a dragon on a leash… what I read was that he killed one that was menacing the townspeople, or rather, prayed that God would kill it, whereupon… it hung itself and died.
Hey, I only reports ’em, I doesn’t make ’em up. I couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
Tea has far less caffeine than coffee… seems unfair that they count equally.
I say I have two cups of coffee…
My coffee maker calls it 4 cups but coffeemakers count in old fashioned “teacups”, 6 oz each.
But it doesn’t make 24 oz anyway, cos my mug holds 12 oz, and I get about ⅔ of it twice.
Technically, I’m not allowed any caffeine… but I gave it up for almost two years, and then told my doctor I’m going back, cos I’m never wide awake any more.
Surprisingly, she said two cups was fine.
Some afternoons I have a cup of tea, as well…. sshhh… don’t tell her.
Towards the back end of last year, I had four cups of decaffeinated coffee while I was at a model railway exhibition showing one of my layouts. I normally take a flask of decaffeinated tea, but had managed to damage the flask I normally use, and the only other one I had was one that I used to take to work with coffee in it.
Decaffeinated coffee isn’t always fully decaffeinated, and unfortunately this was one of them. That evening the caffeine that was present in the coffee triggered an A-Fib episode.
A couple of months before that, I’d been out with family for dinner and had had a coke with the meal as I was driving and couldn’t have a beer or wine. That also triggered an A-Fib episode later that evening.
I stick to tea for my caffeinated drinks, or one decaf coffee.
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Sad that the only way to protect the Rhino is to remove the horn.
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Had a cousin like that. The kind you didn’t turn your back on.
I was the second born, and I used my baby Thumbelina doll to beat up my brother.
My sister, the youngest of us three, used her doll that my mom made for her to beat up on my brother and I. Tore the arm off. Mom was pissed. And we never did anything to deserve it! Saints, I tell you, Saints! 😉
Ora Zella, the kitten from Breaking Cat News, requested and received her very own chain saw. BEWARE!!!! Laugh Out Loud funny.
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Be sure you tip well.
That’s the UK, the whole country will have ground to a halt with that amount of snow!!
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5Mb of storage memory, not RAM.
That was the first hard drive… It cost many thousands of dollars. Most users only rented them… for thousands a month.
By users, I mean universities and corporations. The idea that you or I would one day have a computer was preposterous.
IIRC, they didn’t have RAM as we know it.
They ran using a few Kb of core memory, but they didn’t have the random part of random access.
My first IBM “compatible” computer (bought 3rd hand in about 1992) would have been a miracle to people from 1956, though it was way behind the curve when I bought it.
It had 640Kb of RAM. Its 5Mb hard drive… the equivalent of the one in the picture… was only about the size of my hand, but way thicker, and weighed about a pound. I couldn’t have Windows because it filled 5Mb, so you needed a 10Mb drive.
Now I have a low end smartphone, which I got free from T-Mobile in 2021, when they took over Sprint and made my CDMA Sprint phone useless. It has 4Mb of RAM and 64MB of storage, which most people consider barely adequate in 2026 (but it’s fine), and weighs… I dunno… half a pound?
Imagine telling those guys I’m carrying 64 Mb of storage in my pocket.
I just looked up the specs of my iPhone 12 Pro: hex-core processor, quad-core GPU, 6Gb RAM, 256Gb Storage.
Scary specifications for something that you can carry around in your pocket, and does all the tasks that would have taken four, five, or more, different devices only twenty five years ago!!
I use an iPhone because the rest of the family use them, and a couple of them are Apple freaks so we all ended up buying iPhones to connect across the three different continents we live on. I bought it used to replace the iPhone 8 I was quite happy with, (Not paying Apple retail prices!), didn’t need new, just one that could run the software I needed to connect to my car (Yes, I know how that sounds…), and this one will last me for several more years.
My phone is Android.. I’ve always had Samsung but this had better specs than the free Samsung they offered… remember this was 5 years ago… actually 4, cos it was December 2021.
It’s a One Plus Nord-something, which some people laugh at… but I gotta say, as far as I can tell, it’s not lost any speed in 4 years, and its charge lasts as long as ever. It makes the strongest connection of my mobile devices, including my 2024 tablet.
I never think of it as old, or needing replacement. It might be different if I were a heavy duty gamer, or constant music downloader… But it does YouTube fine, and my NYT word games, so I’m set.
I’ll bet they had that glitch changed so that you can only book 1 year in advance
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BTDT!
Good idea, nice job, all that… blah blah….
But one thing makes me crazy….
I know, I know… you don’t have to tell me, it was no doubt a scrap, and drywall is cheap, and he was just doing it for the video…
But as a person who spent years remaking and repairing vintage clothing, sewing with old fabrics, lace and even some leather…
it just makes me cringe to watch someone cut a patch out of the very center of that orange piece, and render the rest of it useless.
I couldn’t do it.
Even if the rest of it were probably headed for the trash heap, I couldn’t cut out the center and needlessly waste the rest, without knowing for sure that I wouldn’t need it… and probably not then.
Not just from the centre, but if he’d squared the corners of the hole to make a rectangle, then he could have cut the repair piece from one corner….
He could have anyway! Square or not.
You can bet I’d have at least cut that irregular patch as close to one corner as possible.
I never count on not having to do it a second time, or on not needing the patching material again, like if the first patch cracks from the screws.
I agree, but if you work at all with drywall, getting rid of the acres of waste is the biggest problem!
A scrap is not a scrap if you use it.
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Are you mad?
Mad Mad Mad Mad
Cracking film!!
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Whatcha draggin’, Pappa?
“Oy. As if I didn’t have enough tsuris, now I’ve got this dragon on my hands.”
Funny… a friend, long ago, adopted a very high energy little fluffy dog that she named Tsuris… And what she said to me when introducing him was almost exactly that line.
I know that look. Trying to look innocent again, aren’t you? Hah!
“Saint Liphardus (or Lifard) was a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France.”
Dunno why he has a dragon on a leash… what I read was that he killed one that was menacing the townspeople, or rather, prayed that God would kill it, whereupon… it hung itself and died.
Hey, I only reports ’em, I doesn’t make ’em up. I couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
“Lizard” with a lifp?
Beware false etymologies…
I was going to make a joke about him being St Lizard… but “lizard” in Latin is “lacerta”, and I thought I might get called on it.
If you try to look up the meaning of Liphardus, you find that it’s only a latinization of Lifard, his name.
It was a joke!
So lawyers and dragons? Seems a natural mix…
Yeah, maybe only a lawyer could convince a dragon to hang himself.
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Is that where the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster comes from?
Zaphod Beeblebrox (the inventor of it) would approve.
But with the gold-price skyrocketing (pardon the pun), it’d be an expensive treat…
BUURRP!!!!
GLAAARG!!!!
One of the aliens discarded a hat when they were in the neighborhood.
Have Deimos (Mars):
Looks to me like Deimos is a potato, and Pan a giant cabbage… We’re halfway to cosmic borscht.
Jupiter-moon Amalthea?
Mmm… tomato?
Or possibly red pepper. Depends on what you want in your borscht.
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Shouldn’t that be Coyotety?
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Summin about a big dubbayw
I meant to delete the lo-res version above
But you’d lose all those people that make it more interesting.
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I was wondering what the mutt on the right had to do with the other three.
find the lily
And gild it?
Sorry… I didn’t have any gold paint in my tablet.
I looked and looked and couldn’t see it… Maybe cos I’m really tired and it’s past my bedtime.
Finally I noticed it, and now, of course, it sticks out so obviously I can’t believe I missed it.
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A friend went to Iceland a few years ago…
He said they have lots of what you might call ice attractions. It’s not icy there… but they like to look at ice.
He went to an expensive restaurant that has ice walls and ice carvings, and serves some fancy food on big ice platters.
He said it was cold. Good food… but cold.
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“Are you feeling proud? I’m feeling proud.”
KITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And they’re looking at you and thinking, “A snack”.
“Skis and Quackers” – Took me a moment…..
(I’ve not long woken up, and coffee on an empty stomach is a big no-no for me)
Funny cos coffee is what I need before anything else.
And I can only have two caffeinated drinks a day (I choose to have them as tea) due to my cardiac issue.
Tea has far less caffeine than coffee… seems unfair that they count equally.
I say I have two cups of coffee…
My coffee maker calls it 4 cups but coffeemakers count in old fashioned “teacups”, 6 oz each.
But it doesn’t make 24 oz anyway, cos my mug holds 12 oz, and I get about ⅔ of it twice.
Technically, I’m not allowed any caffeine… but I gave it up for almost two years, and then told my doctor I’m going back, cos I’m never wide awake any more.
Surprisingly, she said two cups was fine.
Some afternoons I have a cup of tea, as well…. sshhh… don’t tell her.
Towards the back end of last year, I had four cups of decaffeinated coffee while I was at a model railway exhibition showing one of my layouts. I normally take a flask of decaffeinated tea, but had managed to damage the flask I normally use, and the only other one I had was one that I used to take to work with coffee in it.
Decaffeinated coffee isn’t always fully decaffeinated, and unfortunately this was one of them. That evening the caffeine that was present in the coffee triggered an A-Fib episode.
A couple of months before that, I’d been out with family for dinner and had had a coke with the meal as I was driving and couldn’t have a beer or wine. That also triggered an A-Fib episode later that evening.
I stick to tea for my caffeinated drinks, or one decaf coffee.
A Robin in Galway, Ireland.
Pun incoming….
DUCK!!
Okay, yeah, I admit… that was cheesy.
Honestly, I can’t help it.
Nobody ever said I wasn’t a little crackers.