I just pulled the sliding door to the patio closed and a gecko [lizard] fell down and hit me on the forehead, bounced onto my top lip and hit the floor before running away.
I did not scream. I did not go all girly. If I wake up in the morning with mutant powers I vow to take them in my stride and make the world a better place.
The damn gecko however, is an endangered species. No one touches the Flamingo Dancer unless I give them permission.
This morning I awoke from a dream and I was actually giggling to myself and I couldn't stop for a few minutes. I don't know what I was laughing at but it was very funny. I wish I could wake up each morning like this.
You know what's cheesy? Cheesy is when you email your legislator in support of a particular bill and you get a canned response that is a wordy way of saying, "I got your letter and I think you're stupid enough not to read between the lines of this reply and see that I have no intention of voting for that legislation."
I fully expected any response I might get to be automated, and I understand that. I'm disappointed but not surprised by the message of the reply itself. But neither of those is the really cheesy part.
The cheesy part is that the Reply address is a brick wall. Click Reply, type a response, click Send, and BAM - "Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 1 second(s)." followed by the address programmed into the Reply function.
I'm willing to bet that, if my initial email had been in support of something he's already on board with, the Reply function would work.
I'm looking at you, Bob Corker. Pretty cheesy.
Some of Papa's photos mum found in an old album.
Diggers Ball, rural NSW - 1952.
Here's a video of when I first sat down after the boy got home:
And here's a not-very-good video of him. Tried to show off his tummy, but didn't have enough light.
You can see his shaved peenk tummy pretty well in this photo, though:
This is some very expensive content for
Not so much though, my head/jaw/mouth feels better.
My FEET are KILLING me.
I only stood for about 4 hours but o.m.g. they hurt bad.
Got about an hour and a half till it's bingo and vodka time at Fridays yay.
Its been snowing off and on this evening, who knows how much there will be tomorrow.
If anyone has any suggestions on super duper uber comfy stand in all day kinda shoes let me know.. cuz I need them!
It hasn't quite been a normal day (Edgar and I aren't feeling up to snuff), so no animal post today either. Honest, I will tomorrow.
Neat things about my car:
- the doors not only lock as you start driving, but they unlock when you remove the key after turning the car off
- the side mirrors are heated - it comes on with the rear window defroster
- it corners on a dime
- great shock absorption
The neatest thing about my car:
- it's mine!
It goes without saying....
I definitely disapprove....
HP joined the microcomputer craze in 1979 with their Series 80s computers. These were usual and actually more like an followup to their calculators. They utilized a custom 8-bit processor made by HP. It had nifty non-standard features. For one thing lots of registers (64 of them) and the system was designed to work with BCD just like a calculator. It supported natively 12 digits with exponents to 499 (IIRC). The first release (HP 85) used a built in tape drive. Again very unusual. When diskette support was released, they chose HP-IB (GP-IB or IEEE-488 nowdays) instrument bus.
This example was picked up at an University of Kentuck Surplus auction. It is an HP 86B with 3 memory cartridges and a ROM expansion cartridge. Hence its total RAM is 448K. Not bad for the early 80s. Too bad it only ran HP series 80s software. Also it would not run the HP 85 binaries! The HP series 80s computers were to some extent incompatible with each other. The series was discontinued in 1984.
EDIT: I believe the only thing I have used it for was as a calculator.
Monitor was bought at Goodwill
Memory expansion was by cartridges like many other systems of the time.
ROM expansion used this carrier with places for individual chips. Very much aimed at the engineer market.
I went don to my mom and dad's neck of the woods(a half hour bus ride) to support the Bazaar that the Civic and Historical Society they belong to(to build a new community centre. They made a lot of money this time around(I bought a few things so helped out that way :) )
