thank you for getting carried away! (hopefully not by birds!)

quite the imp, aren’t you?

hope we all win but i guess we gotta wait and see 😁

Wow, I don’t often come across other folks with both similar limitations and curiosity! (Except a reversal on the potato vs oatmeal textures)

Especially the onion thing, it’s crazy the gag reflex can be so strong, or that we can tell so easily that onion has once touched something. I find shallots particularly unbearable! (Though I do get sad because while I can’t stand onions, I can also taste the notes I assume most people can, and can tell how good they would be in certain contexts, like a perfect burger or as a bbq side. I want to know what that experience is like 😰)

As another person from the southeast, similar is true down here and most places: a locally known and mildly sketchy situation is the best! (Usually…)

Gas station places with a packed parking lot, open church bbqs, the smoky old dark wood panel places serving the best burger you ever had.

That said, the first time I had a proper tamale when I moved to Texas, omgosh! Magic.

You monster! Now I’m having UCHI, OHCI, and EHCI flashbacks, how finicky those first keyboards were, and the bios emulation layer used to make them seem like a normal PS/2 keyboard.

Why???

As a former legacy BIOS and UEFI developer, who has also done a ton of basic IT support… thank you, I am now having traumatic flashbacks (and I even had access to the firmware code! But that’s not always enough… Never enough.)

These days I can’t even very leftover prototypes to use, dang.

It took me way way way too long to figure out what y’all were talking about, I was legit worried about a new STI. I need to get out more…

I payed it (almost in blood) literally the first day I moved there 😅

Awww what an absolute (and hungry) cutie! 😍

Aw, that reminds me of a childhood book The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Wolf.

Thank you for the smile!

What’s the difference between a chicken burger and a chicken sandwich? (I’m developing a theory that British folks will generally say the difference is the bun/bread and American folks will generally say whole chicken vs ground chicken…)

Edit: also, nice sandwich!

Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I’m glad it’s better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?

I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.

Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.

Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that… my folks couldn’t get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won’t lay cable out there)

Funny timing, I’m actually playing through the games right now. I had forgotten about the little quips it has about the game industry!

Feels so different using a gamepad on a modern PC, I still remember playing it as a kid with a keyboard and CGA graphics. The shareware version of course, ha.

But but but that’s not Unix! https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1

(Seeing plan9 running on real hardware always makes me unreasonably happy, so thank you!)

Gosh, my daddy’s family is from north Georgia, and he came across one of these guys as a kid. It scared the crap out of him!

I’ll admit, I’ve always wanted to see one in the wild… maybe one day. Big lil snot otter.

Oh god, folks at work started using that in PRs recently, it eats at my soul! Or something less dramatic.

what babe?

Sapphic high five!

Gloop and gleep, heck yeah! Nearly invincible and can turn in to anything.

I’d go with Blip (the monkey), since I’m quiet aside from occasional chirps.