asciilifeform: peculiarly good film

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-2dfEc70gU << airplane from earlier

asciilifeform 'tried' once (broke a hand) - didn't like

asciilifeform: because spinal column can't talk

asciilifeform: but never an interesting answer

asciilifeform: good question, no?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: idleness

asciilifeform: i like bed, blankets, warmth

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's like asking a shoe fetishist, why shoes, why not socks, hats

asciilifeform: notice also the pen for cheating

asciilifeform: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/r350/burst.htm << puncher

asciilifeform: but even in ru they bowed out and gave agents portable tape-punchies

asciilifeform: doesn't get any lower tech while still electric

asciilifeform: from now until alpha centauri

asciilifeform: decimation: telegraphy is the 'internet of last resort'

asciilifeform: without them

asciilifeform: what even is this place

asciilifeform: where are the telegraphygurlz in usa!?

asciilifeform: every bit as interesting as what a good pianist does

asciilifeform: both kinds

asciilifeform: decimation: i know, built one meself as a boy, who hasnt

asciilifeform: not mere buzzer

asciilifeform: the one in the first min. appears to be a digital decoder

asciilifeform: lol re: the ru-built exam box

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ check out the gurl

asciilifeform: decimation: woah

asciilifeform: decimation: must be a practice run - plug is dangling on the floor

asciilifeform: decimation: ru text says 'telegraphy bowl ... 1st stage, 2-4 feb. '07, brest'

asciilifeform: telegraphers were the first to discover

asciilifeform: decimation: it's the repetitive action that nails you

asciilifeform: decimation: even worse

asciilifeform: decimation: 'glass arm' candidate

asciilifeform: why the preoccupation with single hand, anyway? just came back from iran, got chopped ?

asciilifeform: but the computer - we don't have.

asciilifeform: adlai: any hobbyist worth his salt can build a keyboard

asciilifeform: adlai: what would you use for the machine itself ?

asciilifeform: ^ i wrote this for folks who just couldn't help but want

asciilifeform: decimation: http://www.loper-os.org/mwemu/mwemu.html << go right ahead

asciilifeform: decimation: a good many have standard rs232 tty

asciilifeform: but if you just want one for no reason - ebay

asciilifeform: certified guildsmen

asciilifeform: so much stenotype 'can eat them with your arse'

asciilifeform: visit a courthouse anywhere in usa

asciilifeform: they never went anywhere

asciilifeform: and what 're-create'

asciilifeform: decimation: confined to natural lang.

asciilifeform: decimation: fuck stenotypes

asciilifeform: but with 'i should have been forced to use microwriter since age 3'

asciilifeform: notice that i didn't end my 'engelbart's violin' article with 'and now i use microwriter'

asciilifeform: so far, every alternative i've tried vs qwerty keyboard - simply stinks

asciilifeform: ^ soemwhere in there yes

asciilifeform: decimation: precisely -why-

asciilifeform: ever.

asciilifeform: and didn't throw glitter garbage in your face

asciilifeform: decimation: it... worked

asciilifeform: decimation: i loved that thing

asciilifeform: decimation: ew

asciilifeform thinks that if BingoBoingo is going to 'don't trust your brain' he needs to share the good dope first

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ?

asciilifeform: clutters visual cortex & attention span window with what ought to be 100% spinal column work

asciilifeform: touch screen in the best of times sucks for the same reason as mouse

asciilifeform: not recommended.

asciilifeform: trinque: i tried just this

asciilifeform: but same idea.

asciilifeform: adlai: and a pill that lets you fart 10000N*m would be very convenient for transatlantic flight

asciilifeform: just an actual computer that can be used other than on a desk

asciilifeform: decimation: not even thinking of anything so ambitious

asciilifeform: (assuming you were speaking of 'microwriter')

asciilifeform: decimation: no and you can't program with it anyway

asciilifeform doesn't expect to actually get to do it, ever

asciilifeform dreams every day of program-in-bed ☟︎

asciilifeform: i suppose this is how folks end up with 'shoe fetish' etc

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo has said this in the past, and it boggles my mind - what posixy gadget of any interest whatsoever builds on a/ux ?

asciilifeform: adlai: don't process 'interesting' bits on a proprietary crudware box

asciilifeform: (e.g. the suspend mode thing)

asciilifeform: i've ran across folks who claim to have done it - but on close examination, it always turns out that they're living with some 'small' imperfection that i find utterly intolerable

asciilifeform: decimation: hence total lack of interest in attempting to put a civilized unixlike on these

asciilifeform: decimation: if BingoBoingo lived here i'd give it to him to shoot.

asciilifeform: decimation: a box without 100% working suspend-to-ram is worthless to me

asciilifeform: decimation: aha. this one does.

asciilifeform: and has a 'tresspassers will be shot again' sign, most certainly.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nearest 'open' space in your customary sense is many hours away.

asciilifeform: i shit thee not

asciilifeform: they EOLed a '09 box, yes

asciilifeform: decimation: problem is that the later turds won't run on that box

asciilifeform: decimation: exists as much as you want. l33t w4r3z

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've a massive 'sun' trinitron here that 'needs mercy'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that one doesn't deserve it

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wrong mac

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the direct effect of shitgnomism where 'the doctor healed the patient's ear, but did poke out an eye, i fear'

asciilifeform: me to colleague: 'mac has to be good for... something?' him: 'take it to the range, it'll make good target'

asciilifeform: this.

asciilifeform: every time i pick it up from shelf, thinking of using it for something...

asciilifeform: (box in question has proprietary disk controller that won't take standard drives)

asciilifeform: was to be the ada-in-bed machine

asciilifeform: and fuck, i blew a benjie on chinese aftermarket ssd made just for that box, so it would hold this thing

asciilifeform: 'The darwin x86_64 gnat crashes with "illegal instruction: 4" on my macbook pro / OS X 10.7.5 :-(Edit: I upgraded to OS X 10.8.3. Now gnat works...' -- from a forum comment. shitgnomism.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not equality