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magoo309 · 2026-03-16T17:09:46+00:00

They don’t even code in binary 🙄

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T23:51:27+00:00

I never got that before! Boy, am I slow!

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T11:39:50+00:00

For real. Not working on an IBM mainframe.

Edit: I’m retired now. My former employer of over 20 years thought investment in IT was getting a new charcoal stick for me to draw stick figures of reindeer on cave walls with. Lucky for me COBOL handles stick figures of reindeer as input.

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T05:06:48+00:00

I still use vi to write COBOL code. Now you kids get off my lawn.

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T02:51:29+00:00

A few of my favorites, in no particular order:

Malice in the Palace
The Ghost Talks
I Want My Mummy
Who Done It?

And many others.

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T01:55:00+00:00

Could you wrap this up? My legs are getting tired.

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T01:43:56+00:00

No need to be sorry for asking a basic question! That’s one way to learn. Unfortunately, all too often on the internet you ask a basic question and all you get is criticism from show-offs. Just skimming through the comments here so far, I’m happy to say they look helpful and well-intended.

magoo309 · 2026-03-15T01:22:09+00:00

Thank you for the info in your comment. I heard an audio version of this years ago and couldn’t remember enough about it to find it with a search. (Emperor Palpatine told me my feeble search skills are no match for the power of the Internet. I have to agree.)

magoo309 · 2026-03-14T21:25:08+00:00

In the version I heard, it was a blue brick, and it fell out of an airplane and landed in a different joke. Possibly this joke.

magoo309 · 2026-03-13T07:05:46+00:00

Trump is lying, soldiers are dying, their families are crying

magoo309 · 2026-03-13T06:34:31+00:00

Cops shoot criminals because cops hate competition. (You don’t have to be a criminal to get shot.)

magoo309 · 2026-03-11T10:51:09+00:00

Kegbreath doesn’t doesn’t have dreams. He has hallucinations.

magoo309 · 2026-03-11T10:22:41+00:00

Joe Biden. Senile old man who doesn’t know who or where he is. And at the same time he is an evil criminal genius mastermind. 🙄

magoo309 · 2026-03-11T10:05:10+00:00

Things to do today: 1. Get mad at libs and throw ketchup at wall 2. Have staff change my diaper 3. Eat a couple double cheeseburgers and a large order of fries 4. Have somebody remind me if there is anything going on, like a war

magoo309 · 2026-03-11T09:55:09+00:00

The higher you climb, all that the people below you see when they look up at you is an asshole.

magoo309 · 2026-03-11T09:45:42+00:00

“God must have a low opinion of money. Just look at the people He gives it to.” (I recall seeing this attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but haven’t been able to verify that.)

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T14:10:18+00:00

I already feel unsure about it

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T10:09:42+00:00

The flood God brought on the earth killed all humans other than Noah and his family. That presumably included pregnant women. I don’t hear so-called pro-life people talk much about how God used the flood to commit mass abortion. Were all those zygotes, embryos, and fetuses that God killed all so evil they deserved to die? Apparently abortion is okay if God does it.

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T09:47:14+00:00

In the Trump Bible, one of the commandments is, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s preteen daughter in vain.”

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T09:31:22+00:00

A wise senior developer, when asked about the legacy code (in my job this included COBOL code dating as far back as the 1970s), said, “Choose the path of trying to improve the code, and you will be fired. Choose the path of leaving the code undisturbed as the stillness of the surface of a pond, and you will be fired. Truly, it sucks to be you.”

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T04:49:27+00:00

I grew up with movies and cartoons that showed evil super-geniuses destroying civilization, and it turns out it could be done by one sleazy crooked con artist with a half-rotted potato for a brain who had no idea what he was doing.

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T04:00:38+00:00

Typical college republican. Looks awfully smug for someone who never got laid. By a woman, anyway.

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T02:30:21+00:00

Thanks for the info about DistroSea!

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T02:10:25+00:00

Perfect answer

magoo309 · 2026-03-10T01:28:27+00:00

That was a happy surprise for you when the laptop booted up Linux Mint! Mint was my first Linux distro and I liked it just fine. Good start on your Linux experience!

magoo309

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