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[Saracenus]

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I am this meme and I really, really don't like it.

 

[Saracenus]

... slipping a couple of extra cards into someone's programme, that have an infinite loop on them

I missed the punch card era by that much . The first computer I learned on was a TSR80 with a whopping 4k of RAM. And yes, I did use cassette tapes and a recorder to save my hand typed BASIC code. Buy a program off the shelf? Get real, you either bought a book with example code or just freestyled it until something worked.

 

[Thomas Shey]

But that leads to a joke: We can all go to costume parties as 'Adult formerly gifted child,' we can just wear our normal clothes. When someone asks 'what are you supposed to be?' just stare off wistfully and say '<sigh>, I was supposed to be a lot of things...'

Wow, that one stings more than a little...

Ah, when we move the tales up to college things get crazy! What do you do as a lab TA for the last day of organic chem when you finish the proscribed lesson early? Well, if it is a pre-9/11 world, you teach people how to make trinitrotoluene (TNT).

I commented back in the day it was amazing how many things became explosive if you nitrated them...

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I am this meme and I really, really don't like it.

 

[Ryujin]

I missed the punch card era by that much . The first computer I learned on was a TSR80 with a whopping 4k of RAM. And yes, I did use cassette tapes and a recorder to save my hand typed BASIC code. Buy a program off the shelf? Get real, you either bought a book with example code or just freestyled it until something worked.

My first "personal computer" was a Timex Sinclair with 16K additional memory module. I used a dictation recorder for storage. My college programming class was on a Commodore Super Pet and I did PC board layouts on a Commodore Vic20.

 

[dragoner]

But what if I have been shot repeatedly in the face and neck with lasers and can no longer provide my own?

You can wear the figurative neck beard. lol

Girl I am a diabetic trans woman, I have a literal weekly pill organizer. Last I took the time to actually count I think I take 18 pills per day? And only two are supplements.

I didn't get shot in the ears with lasers though so at least I have something new to look forward to!

"I don't wanna take all those pills." -Tom Waits, I don't Want To Grow Up.

 

[Saracenus]

I commented back in the day it was amazing how many things became explosive if you nitrated them...

The bang is cool and all, also you don't really care about your hearing when you are a kid... but if you want more "bang" for the buck one of my classmates had really old school set of drafting tools (yes my high school taught drafting in the 80s) that his grandfather had passed on to him. One of the other students decided his drug habit needed more money, stole the drafting set, and pawned it.

Revenge, igniting magnesium powder on the hood of said druggy's car and fusing his engine block to the chassis. Well that and a nice hole through the middle of it.

Lesson, nerds might not punch you but they will make you wish they had instead.

Side note, my friend also burned down their family's shed, aka the "chemistry lab," in the backyard when they grabbed the wrong bottle to put out a fire and sprayed the wrong thing on open flame. I think it was white gas, aka liquid petroleum fuel, is that still a thing? Remember kids, Always smother it with a fire blanket or use a chemical fire extinguisher for chem lab fires.

Like I said, it was a miracle we survived childhood.

 

[dragoner]

Friend from SRL, missing fingers:

 

[Saracenus]

For @Gradine:

 

[Ryujin]

The bang is cool and all, also you don't really care about your hearing when you are a kid... but if you want more "bang" for the buck one of my classmates had really old school set of drafting tools (yes my high school taught drafting in the 80s) that his grandfather had passed on to him. One of the other students decided his drug habit needed more money, stole the drafting set, and pawned it.

Revenge, igniting magnesium powder on the hood of said druggy's car and fusing his engine block to the chassis. Well that and a nice hole through the middle of it.

Lesson, nerds might not punch you but they will make you wish they had instead.

Side note, my friend also burned down their family's shed, aka the "chemistry lab," in the backyard when they grabbed the wrong bottle to put out a fire and sprayed the wrong thing on open flame. I think it was white gas, aka liquid petroleum fuel, is that still a thing? Remember kids, Always smother it with a fire blanket or use a chemical fire extinguisher for chem lab fires.

Like I said, it was a miracle we survived childhood.

I was a bit of a research geek. Things got interesting when I discovered that there was a "chemistry encyclopedia" in my middle school library that contained basic methods of production, of various things. Examples would be the old French method of producing gunpowder and the manufacture of nitrocellulose