but it;s a great place to chat about music NOT on LL. I hope those of you who are music fans will come over and post.

How do you want to spin it?

Who knows- at least Indiana and Arizona have their shit together

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
Since April 2006, Indiana has observed DST state-wide, with the only weirdness being that some outlier counties are on Central time while the rest of the state is on Eastern (which is not that weird and happens across the US). I went to college in Indiana when they were still non-DST, and it made things a hell of a lot easier in general, but when calling people in other time zones it was a pain in the ass. In general Indiana is a stupid place though, like how no one know the origin of the word “Hoosier” (see http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html etc.), yet every other Hoosier you meet will assert that they know for sure where it came from.

Anyway, no offense to anyone from Indiana. But I would never want to live there again.

to be high enough to order that someone be taken out back and beaten shitless. That way you don’t get your hands dirty.

Best party game ever, hands down

working with disabled people to teach them art. Being a veteran of LL pretty much covers the disabled people requirement.

My neighbor had one of the first Macs. There was some button combo you could press that would send it into a screen-flipping fit. We loved to do it and watch his mom lose her mind trying to fix it.

I don’t think I owned a computer until 2002, and I don’t really remember what it was other than that it was a Dell using a dial-up connection.

Which stood for “Lowest Cost Color”. Man, I loved that thing. I couldn’t play Civ in color though, had to switch to B&W, which sucked.

From the Mac Classic to the gross laptop to the G3. I never really used a Windows-based computer until college.

1992 NEC Ready desktop with a 486SX processor, but before then both of my parents had Toshiba T1100 laptops for their various works, and those were the first computers I ever really used on a regular basis.

I remember my Mom would give me a list of basic math problems and I’d crank them into Lotus 1-2-3 and get the answers when I was really little.

We also had this really basic football game that was just a bunch of X’s and O’s on the screen

I also remember going with my Dad to his office and he’d plug the T1100 into a giant docking station.

My Mom taught computer education classes in the early 1980s, so we had a Commodore 64 and two Vic-20s as school computers. I wasn’t old enough to really appreciate the C64 before we sold it – I spent the rest of my childhood lusting after a C64 – but I did get quite a bit of grim experience with the Vic-20s. Even by the standards of the time, they were doorstops. And god … waiting to load a program from cassette tape was just torture. It was criminal that the V20 and C64 looked so similar when they were completely diametrically opposed in the fun department. Can anybody else think of another example where two things look so similar yet they’re so completely divergent in terms of awesomeness? Michael Jordan and Harold Miner, perhaps?

Our personal computer was the very original IBM PC. Not the XT or AT – the PC. My folks splurged over time to get 640K of RAM and two 5.25 floppies. No hard drive, of course. The original games selection consisted of the usual type-in variety from magazines, Microsoft Decathlon (which consisted of hammering two keys sequentially to run), the original Microsoft Flight Simulator (which disabled collision when your view was of the map – meaning that you could taxi over water and through buildings as long as you were in map view), and, finally and fantastically, Sid Meier’s Pirates.

I also had a TI-99 as a kid. Parsec FTW.

We replaced the PC with a 386DX/33 with a 100MB hard drive – that transition was like emerging from the primordial slime into the Apollo space program. What? A sound card? Madness!

That’s so Raven!

My mind would had been blown if I cared.

this is precisely why I hate the current generation of celebrities.

Ignore sports talk radio during the baseball season and your enjoyment goes up exponentially.

Sweeney said “the outfield defense is much improved over last year’s team, especially now that they’ve got Griffey”

I laughed a bunch

Haven’t watched this week’s yet but it may well be my last.

Eastbound and Down better get better soon or it’ll be dead too. Danny McBride’s character is far too one-note.

That banana guy sounds like a complete ass. WAAAAAAAAAH MY EGO HURTS

apparently in my world the Tigers and the Brewers don’t exist.

I got the other 29 with like two minutes to spare, then just stared off into space trying to come up with the last AL Central team. I was thinking Midwest, so Texas didn’t come to mind.

Phillies, Astros, Blue Jays and Brewers.