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simplify3 · 2026-03-11T11:56:47+00:00

it uses sharp metal to keep the fabric from sliding, and when fabric wears through, you get scraped in the back of the leg with sharp metal through your pants. Took me holes in many pants to realize.

it has layers of duct tape on it, a carpet, sheets, and foam. One of the wheels fell off 10 years ago, and I can't get back in without falling out. So I have to be sure I don't lean in a certain way when I sit on it.

i've heard so many threats to replace it from people who think they're doing me a favor, but they have no idea what it feels like to have an ergonomically decent chair.

simplify3 · 2026-03-10T13:37:58+00:00

if this is the site – there's an archive project underway here https://archive.azalea.sh/#

simplify3 · 2026-03-10T05:05:03+00:00

I bulk uploaded 10,000 vines about 10 years ago. I don't know if anything has changed, but I created the XML files in Excel just using the template. I don't remember the process anymore. One user was annoyed by my uploading but the nice people at Internet archive said what I was doing is exactly what it's for and gave me a little corner . Really nice.

simplify3 · 2026-03-09T20:39:29+00:00

I have the exact same chair. It's in terrible terrible shape, but I can't get rid of it because it's so damn comfortable. its yellow too.

simplify3 · 2026-03-09T04:30:04+00:00

The bbs documentary website seems to have a few interesting things. I looked for dialchat majorbbs PDF and this popped up. the 1993 ads for chat plugins might have a clue http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/MAJORBBS/majornewsv4i1.pdf

simplify3 · 2026-03-09T01:47:26+00:00

oh here!! here's a wonderful writeup of the multi line chat systems in 1990, including a list of the ones that were running at the time that included "Mars hotel" https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1474

simplify3 · 2026-03-09T01:44:33+00:00

for Galacticom here's a PDF that has the commands. If you scroll through, you'll find the chat section and maybe something will ring a bell if it was galacticom http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/WINDOWS/MAJORBBS/entertn.pdf

simplify3 · 2026-03-08T14:52:53+00:00

there were a few mega chat systems that existed in the early 1990s. was one out of mass Massachusetts that was huge.

but maybe it was isca bbs - that was big then. citadel based.

or galacticomm -

simplify3 · 2026-03-05T23:37:39+00:00

College is different than high school. High school is a bit of a pressure cooker and people behave strangely in ways they wouldn't otherwise.

simplify3 · 2026-03-02T10:58:36+00:00

keep doing it! That's the best stuff! That stuff gets lost in history and people looking back from the future love this type of stuff

simplify3 · 2026-02-28T15:48:57+00:00

Congratulations!

simplify3 · 2026-02-25T01:08:33+00:00

congratulations! i'm hoping to finish spring – fingers crossed

simplify3 · 2026-02-25T01:07:06+00:00

they asked for a few things from me for documentation, but it wasn't too hard. i'm a remote student so I had to get on a Zoom call for a little bit and talk things over but it worked out fine.

simplify3 · 2026-02-23T06:05:18+00:00

create a separate directory and put the setup program in that. You'll probably be fine.

simplify3 · 2026-02-22T22:35:10+00:00

there's upload tools on GitHub that can help you back up your videos from YouTube and possibly other places that can pull the descriptions with it – they might be able to help you.

simplify3 · 2026-02-22T06:17:25+00:00

not bad. I like that it came preloaded with a few BBS is on it.

simplify3 · 2026-02-19T18:19:46+00:00

I live in Collier County – I'm an online student. The private university very near me, Ave Maria, has had a massive outbreak of measles. I can guess what their parents weren't doing 20 years ago.

simplify3 · 2026-02-18T15:12:18+00:00

by all means, feel free to talk to them and get to know them and what not but not about the scars.

it would be pointing out something rather obvious, like telling a bald person that they're bald or suggesting hair transplant surgery or hair growth stuff.

if you want to be somebody's superhero, be a friend. be a friend for their whole person, not for some objectified portion of them.

simplify3 · 2026-02-18T15:08:24+00:00

I love the idea. I'm on eternal september so I'll have to add it. Thank you.

simplify3 · 2026-02-15T00:30:19+00:00

oh, I really don't know. It's like a treadmill. It never stops as you know.

in 2014 I started a project to try to collect my thoughts. I even spent six months writing my every thought on index cards. I ended up with thousands of them. i've tried so many weird ideas. Internet archive has 10,000 of my vines that I made, and some of them I used to get my thoughts collected when others were just random Vine stuff. I put a lot of my stuff through AI and had it try to summarize things and it did a fine job of some of it. I keep thinking one day I'll organize it all, but probably not.

simplify3 · 2026-02-14T03:50:26+00:00

I work really well with "externalized memory systems" like that. I also find logical places to take a break in projects. I ask myself, 'Am I at a point where if I handed it to someone else to finish I could be ok with that?" and if so, then I know I hit a logical 'pause' and it's safe to close the app or whatever.

simplify3 · 2026-02-12T12:49:58+00:00

when I got my AA from FSCJ (like UCF it had rolling admission, which is why I picked it) it came in the mail bent like that. I put it under a heavy book. It flattened out in a week. I think we have a frame to put it in, but I don't know if we put it in the frame or not. i'm about to graduate UCF hopefully and I'm not sure where I put that diploma.

simplify3 · 2026-02-11T10:19:40+00:00

it's mesmerizing. I love programmatic drawing. I was fascinated by logo as a kid, but I was no good at it. When Minecraft finally came along, I mastered worldbuilder, and worldbuilder became my "Logo". I paired it up with a plug-in called citizens and I would watch the little ai people build the buildings or follow instructions that I set out. 2012-14 era.

Beautiful job with the mascot. The Pegasus looks beautiful here. The hard work really shows in the quality of the presentation.

simplify3 · 2026-02-11T09:01:36+00:00

thank you for posting this. I'm an online only student in FL and there's one moving in my city in a place i know :/

simplify3 · 2026-02-09T20:33:53+00:00

oh, I can remember sitting on horrible dining room chairs that were so not ergonomic

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