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I'm sure that I posted here about how I had to be the first person in my town with a 1 gigabyte hard drive, which was a boat anchor in 5.25 inch full-height, SCSI, and cost me an insane $1,820 plus tax.
The 128 gigabyte microSD card that's the size of a thumbnail and holds 128x what that boat anchor cost me back in the day was only $17.99 when I bought it a few months ago. It also has a faster transfer rate than the boat anchor, and microSD seek time is nearly instantaneous compared to the "blazing: 29ms average of that large rotating disk. D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I smoked Tareyton. I got up to 2 packs a day. I quit when I was 23. I woke up after a party one day feeling horrible after drinking and smoking way too much. I looked in the mirror and said to myself, "Self, WTF are you doing?". So, I quit cold turkey right there on the spot. I'm certain I'd be in the ground if I'd kept going the way I was going.
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...when your mortgage balance is down to three cents, and you have to walk into your bank with three shiny pennies to make the final payment because their online system can't close a mortgage without the borrower signing paperwork in person.
It took 19 years and 6 months to pay it off, but Chez Vreihen is finally all ours.....
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12-02-2024, 05:32 PM | #9511 |
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I remember using this style back in the day.
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...when you remember the introduction of Trix cereal back in the mid-'50s. I was there! My neighbor Mary Anne's mom bought some at the store when they first came out. She would give them to us as snacks. Everybody wanted to to to Mary Anne's house. 70 years later, Mary Anne and I are still friends. Our grandkids have play dates together. Yes, I'm old and enjoying every minute!
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I remember as a youngster getting all excited about the new tv channels we'd be getting with our new box. I was then disappointed when the only channel on UHF was PBS.
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Today we have nearly 200 channels to choose from and I still only watch a handful as most have nothing redeeming to show.
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...when your fingers feel frostbitten after just a few minutes in the cold.
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