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— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) October 23, 2021
Category: other stuff
A “missing” drunk man joined his own search party
Hollywood Reporter on Angelyne
Very strange story
I never heard of her until I read this tweet yesterday
https://twitter.com/jlisajay/status/1496645778944643073?s=11
New York Times on subway jingles
People are getting hurt from the milk crate challenge
Lots more on YouTube and Instagram
My first Windows desktop PC purchase in 1992
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Atari 800. The first Windows PC I bought was a Gateway 2000 with a tower case for around $3,500. It had 4 mb of memory and a 120 mb hard drive. It had a modem – maybe 1200 baud. I paid $199 to upgrade from a 14 inch monitor to a 15 inch monitor. It didn’t come with a sound card or CD-Rom drive. They were not standard then and I bought and installed them myself later. It did have 5 1/4″ and 3 1/2″ disk drives. The CPU was an Intel 486-DX2-50 which was so new it wasn’t even in their ads yet. The best thing about it was the tower case. It was metal and had enough room for four hard drives. I later bough 540 mb hard drives from Egghead for $399 and later $299.
I already had a printer. It was an Epson 9-pin dot matrix which had cost me about $350.
There should be a TV show called “America’s Bloodiest Home Videos”
I’m being sarcastic in case that wasn’t clear. There are plenty of amateur videos of regular people fighting on YouTube and Twitter. I don’t approve of this behavior…but I’d watch the videos. Each episode could have a theme. I’ll post more restaurant fights. I guess only adults could watch it, at least on YouTube. These are from a quick search. There are many more.
World Central Kitchen (WCK)
WCK is doing a great job all over the world. They support restaurants by buying meals from them and then give them to people who need them. Last year, they were giving out meals at the football stadium here in Baltimore which is near my home. They bought many of them from a neighborhood restaurant during the time restaurants were closed for indoor dining.
Their web site:
Choplifter
Choplifter was a 1982 video game which I played on the Atari 800 computer. You played a pilot who had to rescue hostages but you could accidentally kill them if you landed on them. One day, a friend and I got so frustrated, we deliberately killed all of the hostages.
Choplifter! (1982) – MobyGames
Choplifter (1982)( Broderbund) : Dan Gorlin : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
Two genie jokes
Two old jokes about genies:
A guy meets a genie who gives him one wish.
The guy says “I want you to build me a bridge to Hawaii.”
The genie says “That’s ridiculous. Think of something else.”
The guy says “Alright, I wish I understood women.”
The genie says “How many lanes do you want the bridge to have?”
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A guy goes into a bar and puts a little man on the bar who starts playing piano.
The bartender asks how he got him.
The guy says “I got three wishes from a genie and got this with one of them.”
The bartender says “Can I have a wish?”
The guy says “Alright.”
The bartender says “I wish I had a million bucks. ” The bar starts filling up with ducks.
The bartender says “I didn’t ask for a million ducks.”
The guy says “Well, I didn’t ask for a 12 inch pianist either.”
Sad! 