our first PC in the family was a commodore c64 with a tape deck as drive
later the 128d and later the 28 disks you needed for the Windows 95 install… crazy
my mother gave lessons in IT so we had to have always the newest PCs and software
I remeber playing “Rambo” out of the tapedeck 
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Always tickles me when I see someone quoting me, referring to something I’ve said, or linking to one of my reviews/posts … using it as evidence to support something they are saying …
… and seeing that they’re saying absolutely the opposite of what I said/thought/posted.
(No, this doesn’t relate to anything in this thread … just some stuff I came across elsewhere).
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It shows how valuable your opinions are to people… wether they interpret them correctly or not!
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That kind of stuff doesn’t tickle me. I hate to admit it but I get cranky about that crap. They either didn’t read and/or comprehend what I was saying in the first place, or they are the kind of person who will use and twist anything they can to fit their own narrative, often because they don’t have the cred to be taken seriously themselves.
I don’t know who you’re talking about, btw, so… whatever, I guess.
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That kind of stuff doesn’t tickles me. I hate to admit it but I get cranky about that crap. They either didn’t read and/or comprehend what I was saying in the first placeor they are the a kind of person who will use and twist anything they can to fit their own narrative, often because they don’t have the cred to be taken seriously themselves.(blah blah blah)
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I think I see what you did there. Kind of. 
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Is that due to social media, whatever “rays” are being transmitted from the devices, stupid content, gaming, or something else?
That article itself is a poor example of improving IQ. It doesn’t even have citations to the study or anything.
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This is why the internet should be treated like alcohol. You shouldn’t use it unless you’re over 21, have adult supervision, or a priest gives it to you as part of communion.
Wait, forget that last part.
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Hopefully it wasn’t me…as I posted some incorrect info on head-fi in a hurry before I left for San Fran for the holidays…=( I course corrected later though as I think the issue was due to me having the Cayin tube amp as a pre-amp to my SR1A… and having brain burn in with my other gear… Currently loving the Jotunheim R! and can’t wait to get my own copy of it for my desk… did you want me to send it back to Schiit or hand it back off to you when you return?
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Yep, ironic article…made me laugh out loud…
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Electronics have become an integral part of society. As a parent it’s been tough to limit things, though not impossible. They even incorporate them (tablets, apps, etc.) in schools!
There is definitely a balance to where you don’t want your kid to be an outcast that’s shunned, and also don’t want them to become socially awkward zombies (puberty covers awkwardness) that don’t make eye contact.
I wouldn’t recommend any social media platform (they can deal with bullying in real life, people get too brave online).
And for little ones, I shouldn’t judge anyone, yet it angers me when I see toddlers in strollers with their parents phones. Don’t be lazy, be present!
Any hoot, apologies if I’ve offended anyone, though if I’ve offended you, you may want to re access things.
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Nope, definitely not you.
Not anyone that posts here regularly either.
Right?! 
I remember my first SCSI SEAGATE CHEETAH it was 2GB I believe and I had 2. I then upgraded to an 8GB one. I thought I would never fill them. Haha. In fact I still have them in my loft. I cant bear to throw them out. I think that 8GB SEAGATE SEAGATE CHEETAH cost me £1000 now it’s worth diddly.
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I had one of those. I remember having to find something else to do while my programs loaded on that shlow cassette tape drive.
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You know, what I hate even more is when they give them phones with YouTube with some video content that’s apparently for children, with lots of very annoying noises, leaving it with volume at full blast. It infuriates me.
The issue is not technology: it’s just a tool. The problem is what we do with it. As an example, I use to listen to black metal at high volume annoying the hell out of people around me and scaring nannies, that’s what every perfectly normal and sane person should do.
(I’m being sarcastic, of course, though I really do listen to black metal using headphones!)
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SFX
(storm sounds)
NICK
When I hit the streets the rain had already turned L.A. into a mud river. It was a short swim down Alvarado to my convertible, (car sounds) I had to get to Santa Barbara in a big hurry.
As I whipped on to Mulholland Drive, the lights were just twinkling on across the San Fernandino Valley. I could barely make them out through the driving rain, then a hard right down Big Tujunga Canyon. My tires squealed as I hit Sepulveda. A right. A left. A left. Another right, a left to the body, a right and into a gas station. (brakes) Hey, Pop!
POP
All right. All right. Hold your horses. I’m comin’. Uh, yeah?
NICK
Where am I?
POP
You can’t get there from here.
NICK
But I’m looking for the same old place.
POP
Oh, you must mean the old Same Place, Sonny. It’s right out back. Here’s the key. (key drop)
NICK
Four hours later I parked my car in the carriage house and (cornstarch footsteps) walked up a grey gravel driveway between a line of dwarf maples towards the pillared entrance of the Same Mansion. It had been snowing in Santa Barbara ever since the top of the page and I had to shake the cornstarch off my mukluks as I lifted the heavy obsidian doorknocker. Hey in there… open up. Your doorknocker fell off.
CATHERWOOD
(door open) What’s all this brouhaha?
NICK
Brouhaha? Ha ha ha…
CATHERWOOD
Ha ha ha ha ha…(door close)
From “The Further Adventures of Nick Danger” by The Firesign Theater
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Haha!
Would you recommend this in book or audiobook/album form?