noumenon1111

Hello! My name is Xandiloquence Bizarre the Ab3rd, and today I will make a hat entirely out of dried cucumber.

*Gemini Tech Tip #624:* Boost your Wi‑Fi and spiritual resilience by wrapping your router in aluminum foil! Protect against solar flares, reptilian packet theft, and basic physics. Turn it into a family craft: make and decorate foil router cozies and matching foil hats, then browse Reddit and/or the park, seeking fellow shiny‑headed believers.

Objective unclear; we sent a writing desk instead thinking, surely Poe could still write on this...

The original IP over avian carriers RFC is literally ideal for sending IP packets in a bottle.

I'm not asking them to waste money. I just think the profit they should take on this one is cultural relevance rather than cash (all of which they would get back, but just break even)

I've been doing this. I've been a poet/songwriter for a while, but I'm no musician. This lowers the bar and provides a great deal of relief from the "creative boilerplate" necessary when booting up a song from zero using a DAW, especially for me, a non-musician.

So, I get a good song by throwing spaghetti at the wall until something sticks. Then I can export the stems to the DAW and replace the AI vocals with my own. A little audio processing and mixing later and the whole song is mine.

It is indeed intrinsic here in America. Pretty much all houses that have been occupied in the last 50 years have at least one coax cable coming out of a wall jack or a corner of the floor. MoCA adapters allow for a nice home networking backbone in a house like that.

You're asking the right question!

1. IBM, as the all-time reigning king of computing is not expected to give up its position any time soon. In fact, I'm observing a swell of new microcomputers called "personal computers," and I fully expect IBM to capitalize on this trend soon.

2. Intel is a great company making microcontrollers and processors for microcomputers. The new 8086 microprocessor seems poised to make a splash in the new "personal computer" segment. I'll eat my hat if my prediction proves to be incorrect.

3. "One of these things is not like the other" Microsoft makes a pretty nice BASIC for microcomputers. I can imagine this becoming standard for "personal computers." But, a tiny company like Microsoft doesn't really stack up next to an industry titan like IBM or even a major, newer player like Intel.

If you'd like me to prognosticate some more, I'm ready. Just say the word.

> Which new band will still be around in 45 years?

Excellent question! It looks like Two-Tone is bringing ska back with a new wave of punk rock energy! I think The Specials are pretty special and will likely be around for a long time.

On the other hand, the "new wave" movement of punk rock music will go nowhere. The Cure, Joy Division, Tubeway Army: check the dustbin behind the record stores in a few years.

I see what you did there, fair human.

Most people under the age of 50 will not understand this.

If you like klezmer, chances are you'll like Balkan and/or Romani music too

Here, I think I fixed it:

    I hate to think (take
    the bandage off quickly!)
    of a cybernetic ghetto
    where mammals and computers
    strive together in mutually
    destructive chaos
    like pure water
    soaking dead trash.
    
    I hate to think
        (not now, please!)
    of a cybernetic whorehouse;
    Amazon, Google, Microsoft
    exact tolls peacefully
    from computers
    though already paid for,
    for extra "content".
    
    I hate to think
        (it cannot be!)
    of a cybernetic lobotomy
    where we are free of our nature
    and farmed for our labors,
    subjected through mammal
    weakness and instinct,
    and all watched over
    by machines of loving grace.

As a native Bendite but not current Bend resident, seeing that word with a capital letter always makes me smell juniper and sagebrush a little bit.