Ha ha, I was going to comment with a link to some Vi Hart videos. Hee, and yay.

Ooh, and I just remembered that their videos are no longer on YouTube -- but I have now discovered that their videos are on Vimeo! That is also very yay.

I never had an AOL address, but I *used* them, in the sense of "writing to my friends who had them".

But I had an e-mail address before there *was* AOL.

How about "BITNET address"? :^ )

(I think UUCP still worked at Mudd when I started work there in 1992, but I'm not 100% sure.)

(Hmm, TSOR says that I've got the timing backwards there: Dave came out in 1993, True Lies not until 1994. My new and improved guess is that the spark with Sylvia had faded somewhat by 1994, and we were still friends but no longer interested in romance? Who knows. Good (if comically inept) times.)

In the exceptionally unlikely event that Sylvia or Beth are reading this: I did enjoy the movies, and I'm sorry I was such an low-EQ idiot at the time. In my defense, I was like 22. :^ )

- Somewhat later, going to a showing of Dave with the aforementioned person I was more smitten with at the time, which was a date, our first and last. It was an awkward train wreck, because we'd mostly gotten to know each other over e-mail and turned out to have basically zero chemistry in person.

Wow, those are both pretty great. :^ )

I have two related ones:

- Going to a preview screening of True Lies with a woman who worked in publishing, and often got tickets to such things, which could have been a date, but I wasn't pursuing her because I was more smitten with someone else at the time.

I like "Liam Nissan", an excellent Jennifer Government sort of name. Thanks, spillchicken!

I bet our pathetic wannabe warmonger Hegseth thinks the Coast Guard is BUNCH OF PUSSIES, and if HE was in charge, he would've SUNK THEIR BOATS AND KILLED THEM ALL DEAD ALL OF THEM DIE DIE DIE because the kind of MACHO MANLY MAN he is.

off to watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhkg... brb

I was at one point textbanking with an organization who either works with, or now *is*, www.contesteveryrace.com, who are solidly into that.

Arguing about the DETAILS of hallucinatory gaslighting fantasylands cooked up by our pathetic wannabe dictator just distracts us from the fact that he's also a pathological liar who constantly makes shit up in an increasingly desperate attempt to justify his pathetic dictatorial ambitions.

The problem isn't are we at war or aren't we; the problem isn't who gave the order and who knew about it; the problem is that THERE IS NO SUCH THING as "Venezuelan narco-terrorism". The whole thing is 100% made-up bullshit.

What kind of loser parent is just like "hey, they're adults, whatever man"?

If *my* kids were planning to vote for someone who was *worse* than a convicted felon rapist misogynist homophobic kleptocratic patehtic wannabedictator general all-around asshole, you can bet your sweet ass I'd try to argue with them and convince them otherwise!

I would be vaguely willing to grant mercy to the terrified sailor who pulled the trigger, who could plausibly have sincerely not known what they were doing.

And I say this as someone deeply opposed to capital punishment: Everyone from Bradley on up should be hung by the neck until they are dead.

First job: "Huh, I've never seen it do *that* before."

Multiple jobs, although fortunately not the current one: "Uh huh. Uh huh. Yep. Got it. Is there a ticket?"

Is the implication that you only commit felonies after making a thorough and detailed plan, including various fallbacks and safeguards in case things go wrong?

(This is satire, in the perhaps unlikely event that this was unclear.)

Affordability! I do not think that means what you think it means.