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SETI project gone horribly wrong
Let me apologize first for commenting on a hat. Clearly I’m more comfortable with being gay than ever before. 
That said, oy, that hat. At first I thought it’s probably some Green project that’s all the rage with celebrities, like a recycled piece of Skylab recovered when it fell back to Earth, or something you plug your cell phone into then face the wind to recharge as it spins up. Later I realized she probably just misunderstood the instructions for converting her set to digital television. CARLOS
I’ve never given my eye color much thought. From up close they’ve got some hazel-ish / green-ish doo-dads going on, but they’re your basic Caribbean brown at a distance. I’ve heard people complain about not liking their eye color, and will try things like colored contacts which make them look like Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s not that I don’t think blue or green or hazel eyes aren’t beautiful, they certainly can be. To fret over one’s eye color though, it seems silly. And what’s the point either, right? It’s not like you can change it.
Well apparently now you can! If you don’t mind a week in Panama, spending thousands of dollars, and a doctor slitting your eye open to shove a colored implant in it, the NewColorIris may be the answer to your prayers! It scares me that people would actually have this done for purely cosmetic reasons. I mean, these are your EYES after all. Fucking with them makes no sense to me.
Absurdities. CARLOS
Seems the Pope is on every major channel right now, just having served communion. It started out with the Pope serving himself first. There was an audible *crunch* as he bit down on his wafer and chewed it. I don’t remember them being that crispy. Then I thought to myself, this is no ordinary mass, they probably serve gourmet wafers when it’s the Pope doling them out. Probably a light garlic flavor — they cut to another clergyman walking by the pews handing out something contained in a bowl, one to each person. My guess? Breath mints. CARLOS
I had a flashback when I ran across this picture of an ASR33 teletype online. It’s the exact model of teletype I used to write my first computer program. It was 1974 and I was a freshman at Emerson High School in Union City NJ, a couple of dozen programming languages and operating systems ago. Back then it was a version of Dartmouth BASIC, and the platform was an NCR mainframe located in Asbury Park, NJ that we had access to on a time-sharing basis.
To write your program, first it had to be typed onto paper tape. That’s right, you’d type and paper tape from a spool fed into the machine and came out with holes punched in it. If you made a mistake and backspaced, a RUBOUT character was written to the tape. It’s hard to feel sorry for sissies getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome on the keyboards of today. One wrong move, and you could have your hand in a splint in 5 minutes on the ASR33. Images of George Jetson with the throbbing fingers at the end of his work day. Read more »
