Holy Crap!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/1857204

Somebody just invented an ethernet card for the Commodore 64! In addition, the new operating system it runs under can be installed on all kinds of old gaming systems like the Nintendo, Gameboy, and even several Atari’s. The fact that the C-64 release come on a 5.25 inch disk is not only funny to me, but amazing. I didn’t know you could still find 5.25 inch disks for the C-64, let alone ofr any computer system.

My only question is: Who in the hell would try to surf the internet on a Commodore 64? Yes, I love my old C-64. It’s got the best version of Tetris ever! But a lot of the things I do online have files so much larger than the 64K of memory it has. Hell, some of my e-mail is larger than that.

Current Mood: 😯shocked

Hmmm….

So I just downloaded a new Livejournal client to my computer. So far I like it much better than the one I was using before. The entry box is much bigger, all the stuff like mood, music, and subject are all in one place. The only thing I’m not so sure about is the privacy function. It doesn’t seem to have downloaded any of my friends groups. Oh well, maybe in a later release.

P.S. Neat thing too. It uses the Microsoft Word spellchecker to check my posts. Which means no more having ot argue that my name is really a word.

Current Mood: 😕curious

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Current Mood: 🙂amused

Stupid SBC

217-384-0766

That’s the phone number SBC gave us without telling us, without any notification that the service was active. After I called them and told them to cancel the order for new service.
So that number’s been disconnected. I think we’ll be okay without a local number for now. Maybe later I can convince Denise and Jen to get a local number. Though truthfully, I’d probably be the one to use it most, having Gill call me an hour earlier instead of waiting till 10pm her time to call her on my “free” minutes on my cell phone.
On the other hand, it’d be nice to have local service for the times when the cell phones don’t work, for people to call us, and so that we have a local number, just in case.
Of course, it was hard enough convincing Jen to pay any part of the cable bill, so the phone will be an even tougher sell.

Current Mood: 😡aggravated

Randomness

So, I just got a phone call on the phone that isn’t hooked up yet. I was just sitting here typing on my computer, and my phone, which I had plugged into the network box because it gave me a dial tone, started to ring. So I picked it up and it turned out to be a telemarketer selling subscriptions to the Chicago Tribune. So I interrupted her spiel.
“Excuse me. Julie.. was it? Could you do me a favor? Do you know what number you just called? Could you tell me?”
And she did. And now, somehow, through no fault of my own, we have a local phone number.

Uh oh… I wonder if SBC really did cancel my order.

Current Mood: 😉weird