Now you gave me an inspiration. I’m eorking with a few other parents to create a local, walled “Internet” for the kids in our estate, and webrings would be a fun feature to resurrect.

I feel like I’m getting too old for the Internet. I still fondly remember the times where you could create a Geocities page and add it yourself to the Yahoo directory, and other netizens clicked through categories to get to your listing, instead of using a search engine.

But I digress. I’m finding myself browsing the www less over time, and I’m already limited to only a hadful of pages I visit regularly. For me personally, Vivaldi is the best choice for a desktop, and Brave is hands-down the best choice for my smartphone. But I appreciate that others may have different use cases.

Iran should request to have a hand in selecting the next US leader. In fairness, they couldn’t do much worse than the US electorate…

1. Sherlock Holmes books. New are still written and published, and many are quite good.
2. Warhammer 40k books. A mixed bag, but you’ll find your favourite authors soon.
3. Riftwar Cycle. A few dozen books over three decades. Last book was in 2013, so it’s probably no longer active, but you’ll never know…

If they start the list with handguns, they should have included the Bowel Disruptor from Transmetropolitan. Hands down (and ass puckered) my favorite weapon.

Two shows that weren’t mentioned yet:

• Warehouse 13 - An endearing sci-fi show about a warehouse full of weird artifacts. Despite some intense episodes, it offered mainly a light, feel-good entertainment, and featured a really well-crafted send-off.
• Fringe - Starts out weird, then it goes totally off the rails, but in a good way. Also wrapped up nicely.

Because my stereo is so old that it only accepts tape or CD as an input. No bluetooth or even USB stick. However, it works, and it’s adequate for my humble needs, so I haven’t considered replacing it yet.

My stereo still uses CD’s, so that’s what I use. I have a DVD burner in my PC, and a spindle of blank CD-R’s and anothet of blank DVD-R’s. I use the former to burn music CD’s for my stereo, and the latter for extra backup whenever I’m about to upgrade my hardware (once every 10 eyars or so). This is on addition to a NAS and an external drive. I just figured that the disks would have the best chance to be read once I get a new desktop.

(I also saw the mention of floppies in the discussion. I have an old Win98 machine - for gaming only these days - with an internal floppy and zip drives. Those media easily outlast CD’s: I can still read almost all oc them, even though some are over 30 years old.)

I wonder how many kids still know what headphone cords are.

Hiking. Alone. No technology along, just my walking stick and backpack. Bonus points when it’s foggy and I feel like the only person on the trail.

I have an account where I only post after I translated my writing through three different languages and back to English. The original input and the output convey the same message, but have very distinct styles. Randomizing the three languages in my translation sequence introduces enough variety that I doubt current LLM’s can identify me. (Full disclosure: I don’t post any sensitive information under any account; I do it just for fun.)

Keanu Reeves. Just the two of us, each on one end of the bench, enjoying a sandwich, and not talking but still content with each other’s company.

I’m living with my wife and kids half a continent away, but every time we visit my parents, they have some kids or house pets from my siblings to take care of. My parents are retired, they enjoy peace, quiet and especially their own schedule by now; they shouldn’t be asked to act as child minders anymore.

Wiping away excess paint if I miss. Still wet paint is easy to clean away that way. A wet wipe around your finger makes tor a very fine precision instrument to keep the edges of your painting straight.

That’s what I use the wipes for. I find that I’m more precise with the wipes than rags or an old T shirt.

I used wet wipes when painting my house. They are, without a doubt, some of the most important painting tools. But also probably the most infuriating, especially if you can use only two fingers on one hand to pull out a wipe.

Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…

This one speaks directly to me: “The only decision you should make while angry is to stop being angry.” ~ Timothy Zahn, the Icarus series.

My current computer will be Linux, as soon as I stop procrastinating and clean up my documents and back them up on my NAS. Already did that with my travel laptop.

Does Skid Row count? The original band saw people come and go all the time, to the point that nobody really knew who was a member at that point. In 1987, Gary Moore, who hadn’t been a member anymore, actually “sold” the name to a US band. The last original member still disputes the sale. So, you have two bands with the same name, with the original band had members replaced multiple times, with even the last remaining original member leaving and rejoining twice.