dave@hal9000

Lol the für Elise thing is funny. Back in highschool I got a “PC maintenance” credit which had me assigned as support in the computer lab. I made a batch script that ran on startup and showed a warning message saying the hard disk will self destruct and did a countdown from 10 with the motherboard speaker beeping down, fun times

I was just about to comment that this reminded me of the sub7 days. Not sure when it was released, but I definitely used it in 1998

Edit, memory was wrong, it was released in February 1999

Yeah, I assumed most of the world was at least 18. I was surprised when I moved to the US at 15 and could get a learner’s permit and drive with an adult, and drive by myself at 16.

Lol, my exact first thought, Bobby Tables turned 18!

I am married to an Iranian and go there to visit family every couple of years, and my country is supposedly on the list, but I just apply for a visa regardless because it’s such a mess even figuring out how exactly no visa entry is supposed to work (as in we get ambiguous answers from the consulate) is not worth the potential headache of having some issue on wntey

If you think this is run down, check out John Oliver’s recent piece on “dollar stores” in the US

Weird - I see a lot of comments about how this is some evolution in the war of bots vs CAPTCHA, but I have come across this once, and it was many years ago. I just assumed it was a weird small captcha company that was doing their own thing

Meanwhile in new Orleans, guy on kayak during flood finishes his beer before entering the neighborhood bar