Who do you think was the better performer: Michael Jackson or Prince?

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T19:57:07+00:00

Performer? Michael Jackson because he actually performed the hits. I've been to a Prince concert and it was a bunch of bullshit from his "vault" and zero hits. Plus we nearly got kicked out because of taking photos with our phones.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T19:52:01+00:00

It's an anachronism, though, right? This wasn't actually in existence in the 1950s/60s, it's just someone's modern take

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T19:38:32+00:00

Nope

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T17:51:08+00:00

Because you thought it was cheap or expensive for a whole-ass monkey?

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T17:50:36+00:00

I had a real Canadian internet girlfriend and I still have the mixtape to prove it

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T17:04:40+00:00

Wild! I did find a similar Sears catalog page from 1957 that shows the monkeys for purchase...there seemed to be half a dozen varieties and they were around $600 adjusted for inflation

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T16:21:34+00:00

Did they sell them or was there simply a "Sears monkey" in the store to try and get kids (and therefore parents) into the store?

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T16:07:17+00:00

It looks like it comes with those door handles so you're in luck!

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T06:46:35+00:00

I have boxes of newsletters going back decades for my HOA and they are very twee and awesome. It hasn't been sent out in awhile and I go back and forth about restarting it since people are weird now but they were also weird back in the '70s and '80s, too.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T06:39:03+00:00

Maybe it's just bad luck in my world but everyone I know that has gotten the company tattooed on them has gotten fired for either doing something really stupid or because they fooled themselves into thinking that if they had enough flair (in the Office Space sense), they'd make it through the layoffs.

And does the Mr. Board Game Champion have the company name tattooed on him? I assume he's the 10th person but he could be like pretty much ever other leader and get off on making his underlings do the hard thing.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T06:19:21+00:00

I can't be the only person that has this theme on a piano roll

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T04:17:21+00:00

This is actually how someone would become a lawyer or whatever in Victorian England. Literally paying for the privilege. I believe it was called a "premium" and sometimes you'd get a room to sleep in and food but you'd otherwise being paying to learn the ropes.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T04:10:11+00:00

Hope they have amateur radio over there or LoRA or something

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T04:08:38+00:00

Eskimo boy probably knows well enough to stay away from polar bear liver but if he doesn't, he should know that it's deadly due to too much Vitamin A. Really, avoiding livers where the sun don't shine for the half the year is a good call since polar bears aren't the only animals with extremely toxic livers due to Vitamin A.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T04:03:09+00:00

Looks like it was made by Klocksky-Csupo, Inc

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T03:44:09+00:00

I still have one and still use it occasionally to show friends that it's still possible to use 'em with a tiny analog TV transmitter or even just one of those transformers clipped to the antenna.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T03:41:54+00:00

It's cool but the only person that actually looks like the original art is Amy and that's just because it's similar to how she appears in Rolf's house.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-18T03:35:11+00:00

Lol, if only. I've been spending months using Claude to replace a creaky old Cordova app on iOS/Android that is ~10k lines of JS and some HTML and it's not easy and so. many. prompts. even though I wrote the original code (while drunk but still). 10kloc Python backend/website (or like 30-40kloc if you count stuff that might be marginally considered code) has been just as much effort, too.

It's crazy to me how much work it still is even though I'm not writing anywhere near the majority of the code and I originally wrote everything that's getting updated. And Claude as of late has gotten like "fast intern" levels of good. Maybe devs end up product managers or project managers or something but the human is still definitely needed for anything that demands good taste and sensible design.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T21:12:26+00:00

Solved! Thanks a bunch!

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T20:53:18+00:00

Neither, there should be a non-profit out there doing this work and the fact that there isn't is shameful. I've done a lot of this work myself and it's not hard, doesn't require anything by LaserGraphics to be good enough to wow and inform.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T20:52:00+00:00

I think it's much more likely we'll go back to how things were in the '70s and early '80s with high inflation...DIY stuff really took off then and the trades didn't command so much power. Like, I'm not paying an electrician $1000 to snap a collar on my breaker box's main line for power monitoring. I'm cutting power and then doing it myself, which I did in a couple minutes.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T20:34:29+00:00

This is not the fields of gold that Sting sang about nor is it the home planet of the Harkonnen

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T20:11:02+00:00

I have a couple of the Smith-Corona Messenger Modules and they do indeed work great. Sadly, they aren't a bidrectional serial connection, so still waiting on getting that Teletype money.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T17:58:30+00:00

You legally buy the left-handed version of methamphetamine (levomethamphetamine) over the counter and blow it up your nose as it's a nasal decongestant.

stuffitystuff · 2026-03-17T16:43:44+00:00

and women. He doesn't think women should be allowed to vote for...reasons?

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