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  @joe@f.duriansoftware.com Paging @shayman@cosocial.ca to remind us who wrote NeXT's "Open Sesame" app.

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  King of Queens Who Married Henry VIII #TriviaSitcoms #HashTagGames

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  Dough Falling On Cedars #PizzaMysteryBooks #HashTagGames

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  The Unpleasantness at the Bologna Club #PizzaMysteryBooks #HashTagGames

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  The Gruyere Crack'd From Side To Side #PizzaMysteryBooks #HashTagGames

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  Express Yourself (Anal Gland Remix) #DogsWishListASong #HashTagGames

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  Stop Draggin' My Butt Around #DogsWishListASong #HashTagGames

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  Steve Wozniak presents Liza Loop with a replica Apple I computer, 50 years after he presented her with the first Apple 1 off the line, serial number 1. #retrocomputing #vcfwest

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  @randahl@mastodon.social Is it a "selfie" if both hands are in his pockets and the camera is 10 feet away? (I guess it could be on a tripod.)

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  @scruss@xoxo.zone Nice! Another set of close rot13 synonyms: anil ↔ navy. Longest one I found was 7 letters: abjurer ↔ nowhere.

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  There were two versions of Apple's "Star Wars" game for the Apple II. The first version was written by R.J. (Bob) Bishop in 1977. The second version, from 1978, was by Dana Redington. Note that "ammo" has been replaced by "energy," among various other changes. No word on whether Greedo shot first in the later version. #AppleII #VintageApple #MayThe4th #MayTheFourth

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  The French Dip Lieutenant's Woman Dutch Crunch: A Memoir of Ronald Reuben by Edmund Morris I am Sloppy Joe's Liver (Reader's Digest version) #HoagieABook #HashTagGames

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  @catsalad Cat is *not* amused. That was the same warning face our cat used to make, eyes fully dilated and locked on you, seconds before he lunged and drew first blood. If you were lucky, you could raise your knee in time to block him, taking only light claw damage. The trauma has lasted longer, obviously.

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  SUCCESS! Finally got the Macintosh 512Ke on #GlobalTalk ! I couldn't find a Phone Net box with a DB9 connector, and my attempts to bodge one together weren't working. Picked up a DB9 LocalTalk connector for less than $10. Now I'm ready for next year's #MARCHintosh , or #Apriltosh , or maybe #AprilApples (though I think LocalTalk only worked on the IIgs.)

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  @Stattenf Happy birthday! 🎂

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  Mikido Lens #EggcornFamousPeople #HashTagGames

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  My Crow #EggcornFamousPeople #HashTagGames

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  Mr. Clean is not my scrubber He's just for grills Says that I have some scum But I wiped it with my thumb #HouseWorkASongOrPoem #HashTagGames

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  @theirongiant The timelapse is in this thread. https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/116242101654435956

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  @nixCraft@mastodon.social Someone else in the thread mentioned this, but "encyclopedia salesman" used to be a job up through the 1970s. They would go door-to-door through neighborhoods and look for families with kids. Most people couldn't afford the whole set, but you could buy a volume each month for 2 years. My parents did that. I remember using them for school papers, though I was often frustrated by how sparse and short the entries tended to be, a paragraph where I wanted at le...

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  Sitting here, writing software on an emulated Mac II on a laptop that's at least a thousand times faster, I am realizing: - There's no need to lock in a feature set and specify all milestone sub-tasks first - Not required to add any AI features - Not required to gather detailed usage metrics - Not required to use (or not use) a particular language - If it has a bug, I can just fix the bug without having to write up a RCA and schedule meetings - Get to choose my own tools - It&am...