Most Boring Thread

Oh, the pun-ishment!

I have a "Go Veg" magnetic bumpersticker on my fridge, for the same reason as Boo... it falls off the hatch.

 

Well heck, Boo, it sounds like you're fenced in. (I'm going for most boring pun here, in case you can't tell.)

 

I am so sleepy that I am posting with one eye open. It is getting very late and the kids need the computer...zzz

 

after reading rae vynn's post i ran to my fridge and about to attach scans / pictures of my refrigerator magnets, but changed my mind, because i did not want to post ads

 

I forgot to pay a $2,400 bill Friday afternoon and I am leaving very early in the morning and will not be back until tomorrow night. I think I am in deep doo doo.

 

I am having trouble trying to decide how much to indent the bullets in the outline I am writing.

 

That depends on the content. If I'm going to use a lot of bullets or several bullet lists in a single document I indent less to give more room for type. If I'm using a single bullet list with short items, I feel free to indent more to add visual weight to the list.

 

the fastest that the telephone network could interpret touch tones was about 38 milliseconds.

your average cheap modem can set this via the s11 register from 1-255, but it will not go faster then 50.

the better modems, like the us robotics courier series, could go all the way down to 1 ms
while this was too fast for the united states telephone network, it made for some good farting noises

 

I have a remote control device that makes those noises. It is big fun at large gatherings: mall, church, funerals.

 

I like farting noises. Which reminds me. A while ago I found one of my old whoopie cushions in a box that had been in storage for 20 years. But temperature and humidity fluctuations had taken their toll. The rubber was so dried out and brittle that it cracked when I handled it. It wouldn't make those farting noises anymore.

 

modem farting test

requires a good modem like a us robotics, will not work on generic modems using rockwell chipsets...ATX0 required to disable dial tone detection

go to hyperterminal
type
ATS11=1X0
ATDT(followed by 40 or so random numbers)

( like ATDT2342384092349283492840982034809234809234 )

 

kitt of 1982's knight rider only had 125 megabytes of memory

question: would you drive one around knowing that you couldn't fit your mp3 collection in it?

 

a few years after 1982, my family's personal computer was upgraded from 128kb of RAM to 512kb. I thought that was HUGE at the time. So back then, I would have been pretty excited to have 125mb.

Now I can't stand working on a computer with less than 2gb of RAM.

 

In 1977 I remember expanding the mini-computer in the lab, bumping its 8K of RAM all the way out to 16K! We had to hand-wire the new memory into place with gold wire.

 

I made the decision to go with the 14,400 baud modem in my first PC, even though the 9600 was standard.

 

my circa 1994 us robotics dual standard (v.everything) was dead the other day. and even though i have not used it in 5 years, i had a softspot for it, and was able to secure a new power supply for it at weird stuff electronics for 5 bucks.

my friend sam had a Prometheus pro modem 1200. he olffered to pay big bucks for one. i think they are buried in the same hole that holds all the atari 2600 ET cartridges. it's claim to fame was a VFD display that would spell out CONNECT 1200, and not use regular modem lights. it was an option package. you got that display and i think a larger buffer too.

i think the option package was $495

i was poor, so i could only afford the $99 AVATEX 1200. its hayes compatibility was so bad, that they later came out with an AVATEX 1200HC.

the original AVATEX only supported something like 4 hayes commands, and that was it.

the other claim to fame with the AVATEX modem is that its auto answer was the fastest in the world. within virtual milliseconds of it detecting a call, it would pick up the phone. it wouldnt even wait for "ring" it would just immediately pick up. like it would detect the first few milliseconds of the ringing voltage and bam the modem would pick up.

the calling party would not hear a ring either.

 

No one calls my computer.

I am watching a man with a trash can strapped to his back walk down the sidewalk. Not just any trash can, it's one of those tall kitchen trash cans, beige, with the swinging lids, though this one doesn't have a lid, and it appears to be attached with thin rope to an old backback frame.
I can't see anything in the trash can.

 

It sounds like Grays Harbor has made cut backs and this is your new trash pick up.

 

HEY... WAKE UP.

Our rubbish collection will be one day later this week because Monday (yesterday) was Labour Day.

 

I didn't know you guys celebrated Labour Day down there. I would have thought May Day.

In other news, it was an up and down day in the US stock market today. But the Dow ended up closing down 200 points. Too bad for me. I was hoping I wouldn't have to eat ramen and cabbage again for dinner.