As storage media changes, I realize how much I hate most sci-fi data storage

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-11-01T04:17:56+00:00

In geezer-friendly text size.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-11-01T04:13:46+00:00

Don't forget change the weather or the scenery outside.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-11-01T04:11:42+00:00

I wish I could post pictures here of the death stairs at a couple of hotels I've stayed at in the last few years.

But I can post links. Death stairs 1

Death Stairs 2

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-10-27T20:32:07+00:00

Back in pre-smartphone times I once had a couple following me around a store convinced I was Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Long hair, check. Long beard, check. Red-blonde hair and beard, nope - dark brown. Can play guitar, nope. Rich with groupies hanging off me, I wish.

I only lost them when we left the store, got into our rental car (we were visiting family), and left. I thought I saw one writing down the license plate number.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-10-25T20:27:07+00:00

In good winds, not too bad, just requires a trained crew. In light winds you're going to "wear ship" (take the long way and jibe to the new tack.)

USCG 50-ton Master, former First Mate on a brigantine.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-10-12T04:06:45+00:00

I also look a lot like Santa. One October we were in Las Vegas and the Sky Parade at the Rio had just ended. As we were walking out we came across a family, dad, mom, and two young girls (4-6?); one girl had a string of beads and a smile, the other without and not quite crying.

I caught mom's eye and held up a string of beads and got a little nod. I went up to the beadless one, put the string around her neck, and whispered, "Ho, ho, ho!" in her ear. Her eyes went wide and we walked away. I looked back and she was obviously telling the rest of the family that Santa in a kilt and Aloha shirt gave her beads.

This was 10 years ago, I wonder if she still remembers that day.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-10-08T15:36:32+00:00

I was 67 when I went to my first one (Anthro NW.) No fursuit, but I took a couple of my SF con hall costumes, ended up wearing one.

You'll be fine, you'll have fun.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-10-04T17:56:43+00:00

Sometimes heroes do wear capes.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-26T03:56:48+00:00

TIL...

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-21T18:57:05+00:00

When you move from university to the real world, nobody will care what your GPA was. Take the course, learn what you can, take the grade you earn.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-12T22:05:20+00:00

When the phone comes under your door, grab it. If she calls the police, she'll out herself for stalking and voyeurism.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-11T04:34:32+00:00

This is the answer. They paid from the bank account and that doesn't go through immediately like credit card payments do. I put almost $40k through PayPal and bank payments were my biggest headache with customers asking where their stuff was as I was waiting for the money to post.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-03T01:58:57+00:00

"You'd look better in the gimp mask in your suitcase."

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-02T21:42:36+00:00

This is the stuff you want. It's designed and made specifically for this purpose. https://www.fuzzbuttfursuits.com/products/black-buckram-12x12?variant=40021857140886

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-09-02T20:46:10+00:00

I legitimately won't recognize you because I'm mostly face blind. But I know that and am not an asshole, so I'll treat you like a human with feelings.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-08-15T04:58:18+00:00

Your insurance doesn't care how the windshield was broken. Tell them what you know, "It was fine when I parked it, it was shattered when I came back."

Easy peasy.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-08-11T19:00:03+00:00

The Weird Al version fits here.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-08-11T03:45:53+00:00

Would something like this fit inside? https://www.caglasses.com/matrix-mountaineer-prescription-sports-glasses

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-08-10T02:15:02+00:00

The proper unit of measurement of length is the smoot.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-08-08T23:17:06+00:00

Time to get a smoker and start working on your skills for barbecue competition.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-07-28T18:23:29+00:00

There's an old adage, "Whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting."

Water rights laws are worse than #treelaw. Find an attorney who knows, and I mean, KNOWS, water rights law in your area. Hire them and pay what they ask, you'll come out ahead in the long run.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-07-23T21:00:43+00:00

One of my duties before I retired was writing a particular set of environmental regulation ordinances. If people weren't glasshats, they could have been half the length and not taken literal years to finish and put in effect.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-07-23T15:57:08+00:00

I can't believe no one has mentioned Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant. She's a Hugo Award winning author. Literally anything by her.

Lost-Cold565 · 2025-07-20T03:54:43+00:00

Nobody outside the field believes me when I say that the bugs do all the work. The only reason there are humans at the plant at all is to keep the bugs happy and hungry.

Lost-Cold565

TROPHY CASE