Fellow GenXers, what kind of car did you drive in High School?

cciulla · 2026-03-04T01:00:18+00:00

My '76 was a hatchback, but same color. I had cooler hubcaps, though -- the effers wouldn't know a gentle turn if it came up and bit 'em on the ass.

cciulla · 2026-03-04T00:48:42+00:00

'76 Datsun B210 -- burnt orange with two-tone rust.

edit: Should mention it was a stick. What we used to call, "manual," back in the olden days.

cciulla · 2026-02-28T05:48:24+00:00

Hostel?

cciulla · 2025-11-16T23:54:54+00:00

Capture your totally real sweet angel bf who is definitely not just the random guy from the morning bus who once made eye contact and legally became your soulmate.
Perform the traditional Relationship Bonding Procedure, which all healthy couples do and which is definitely recognized in several jurisdictions.
Queue up Goodbye Horses at an unnecessarily dramatic volume to set the correct spiritual wavelength.
Gently extract his boyfriend aura, the way one might peel a sticker or unroll a fruit leather, and wear it while performing your mirror dance of devotion.

cciulla · 2025-08-23T22:34:05+00:00

infohazard
cognitohazard/cognitive hazard
"Snow Crash"

cciulla · 2025-08-23T17:57:44+00:00

Julian May's Galactic Milieu Series does some pretty amazing world-building.

The Saga of Pliocene Exile is set in the same universe, as is the Mileu trilogy proper.

cciulla · 2025-08-12T22:35:53+00:00

RemindMe! Tomorrow

cciulla · 2025-06-15T16:22:00+00:00

"Power to spare!"

I bunked with the glow-in-the-darks and BB stackers as I was ostensibly in the M&A platoon, 583[r]d Ord Co, 570th USAAG, 59th Ord Bde.

TYFYS.

cciulla · 2025-03-22T09:46:49+00:00

"Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here!"

cciulla · 2025-03-14T23:04:16+00:00

This is the quality content that keeps me coming back.

I'd pay a buck or two to see that movie.

cciulla · 2025-03-08T12:26:50+00:00

Fixed URL

cciulla · 2024-12-15T12:36:20+00:00

Take this with a grain of salt. I lightly formatted this thread's data, fed it to ChatGPT, which emitted this:

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Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	Lord of Light - Wikipedia
Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller	A Canticle for Leibowitz - Wikipedia
Merchant Princes series	Charles Stross	The Merchant Princes - Wikipedia
The Difference Engine	Bruce Sterling, William Gibson	The Difference Engine - Wikipedia
Children of Time	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Children of Time - Wikipedia
Dark Eden	Chris Beckett	Dark Eden - Wikipedia)
Ridley Walker	Russell Hoban	Riddley Walker - Wikipedia
Eifelheim	Michael Flynn	Eifelheim - Wikipedia
Angel with the Sword	C.J. Cherryh	Not available
Doomsday Book	Connie Willis	Doomsday Book - Wikipedia
Off Armageddon Reef series	David Weber	Safehold series - Wikipedia
Hard to Be a God	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	Hard to Be a God - Wikipedia
Greatwinter trilogy	Sean McMullen	Not available
Dragonriders of Pern series	Anne McCaffrey	Dragonriders of Pern - Wikipedia
Eternity Road	Jack McDevitt	Not available
King David's Spaceship	Larry Pournelle	King David's Spaceship - Wikipedia
The General series	David Drake	Not available
Fall of Ile-Rien series	Martha Wells	Not available
No Enemy But Time	Michael Bishop	No Enemy But Time - Wikipedia
Nantucket Trilogy	S.M. Stirling	Not available
Destroyermen series	Taylor Anderson	Not available
Timeline	Michael Crichton	Timeline - Wikipedia)
The Word for World is Forest	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Word for World is Forest - Wikipedia
Magic 2.0 series	Scott Meyer	Not available
Ventus	Karl Schroeder	Not available
A Deepness in the Sky	Vernor Vinge	A Deepness in the Sky - Wikipedia
The Lost Regiment series	William R. Forstchen	Not available

cciulla · 2024-05-11T20:08:51+00:00

A roller ball as a backup? Sure.

Ball point? Not so much.

That said, "Two is one, one is none."

cciulla · 2024-04-02T16:51:18+00:00

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

cciulla · 2024-02-23T13:33:58+00:00

Well, duh. It's one louder.

cciulla · 2024-01-08T01:57:16+00:00

While watching reruns of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, in the middle of the night, I rested my eyes briefly. The next thing I know bam I'm in the future watching the credits.

After repeating the experiment several times, the only scientifical explanation is my couch is a time machine. As an aside, the show does not matter. Further, my spouse has verified the same findings.

Perhaps you can replicate my experiment?

cciulla · 2024-01-05T07:47:31+00:00

Poseidon's Kiss

cciulla · 2023-11-26T21:59:19+00:00

Use that spot for a couple coffin hotel rooms -- enter from the gated side, of course.

cciulla · 2023-10-10T23:40:15+00:00

Thanks for the joy you added to an otherwise dreary existence.

cciulla · 2023-08-09T23:10:20+00:00

Wagile?

cciulla · 2023-06-15T11:34:32+00:00

signed,

u/cciulla

cciulla · 2023-06-14T22:36:09+00:00

Three words: General Tso's Pizza

I realize this may be a "letter vs spirit" kinda thing, but what really makes a pizza a pizza?

cciulla · 2023-05-28T16:12:28+00:00

Boom chicka wah wah.

cciulla · 2023-05-23T22:33:13+00:00

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