I’m choosing to live with the rats at my house rather than move into the sublet I was supposed to take. they called just a couple days before I was set to move stuff in to say they found bedbugs!
Hell, I go into some meetings, run some errands, and miss lots of funny stuff. And from the loud noises coming from the kid’s room, I’m probably going to miss more.
(I learned to parallel park on a car with whitewalls. Makes one an extremely cautious parker. I still end up too far from the curb… and typing by writing stupid programs in BASIC.)
Going to the manhole, btw, (to respond to that post waaay up there) was the result of being at the Bulgarian St Patrick’s Day party, decided to take off, and this guy who was a friend of a friend (and had been described as ‘the only totally amoral person I know’) saying, hey, I’m leaving too, want to grab a drink at this great bar around the corner?? Apparently I was insufficiently obvious in my gender preference. After leaving that place, ended up in a speakeasy downtown run by some old Italian guy with very Catholic tourettes, where this guy wanted to score some coke. All in all, a fairly weird evening.
Yeah, Selectric was the best. You had those little white patches which allowed you to erase a mistake. AND THEN….
they made a Selectric which allowed you to backspace and erase a mistake. Whoa.
I’m envisioning Donatella as the “Scantilly Clad Contortionist Typist” that was pictured here on brownstoner a long time ago and, I believe, long before Donatella started on here.
Perhaps more oddly, I’ve been to a bar in North Adams, MA called ‘The Crystal Hardhat’ which was *not* a gay bar.
bedbugs with MRSA?? wtf?
I’m choosing to live with the rats at my house rather than move into the sublet I was supposed to take. they called just a couple days before I was set to move stuff in to say they found bedbugs!
Hell, I go into some meetings, run some errands, and miss lots of funny stuff. And from the loud noises coming from the kid’s room, I’m probably going to miss more.
(I learned to parallel park on a car with whitewalls. Makes one an extremely cautious parker. I still end up too far from the curb… and typing by writing stupid programs in BASIC.)
Going to the manhole, btw, (to respond to that post waaay up there) was the result of being at the Bulgarian St Patrick’s Day party, decided to take off, and this guy who was a friend of a friend (and had been described as ‘the only totally amoral person I know’) saying, hey, I’m leaving too, want to grab a drink at this great bar around the corner?? Apparently I was insufficiently obvious in my gender preference. After leaving that place, ended up in a speakeasy downtown run by some old Italian guy with very Catholic tourettes, where this guy wanted to score some coke. All in all, a fairly weird evening.
We had IBM Selectrics in high school, but an old manual one at home that someone had given my mother.
My the time I got old enough to use a typewriter, my sister and I had pretty much ruined the manual.
I also had a computer from the time I was 8 or so, and was writing programs on it shortly after.
Not this one, dona. She was dressed like something that might be doing the dance of the seven veils
Biff, do you have the original thread??????
Yes, I think the backspace mistake erase function appeared right about then, 1978.
oh, I saw those…the cyber warriors. She basically hunches over the typewriter typing like a lunatic…
Yeah, Selectric was the best. You had those little white patches which allowed you to erase a mistake. AND THEN….
they made a Selectric which allowed you to backspace and erase a mistake. Whoa.
I’m envisioning Donatella as the “Scantilly Clad Contortionist Typist” that was pictured here on brownstoner a long time ago and, I believe, long before Donatella started on here.