But in a plane? Weeee! I’m in a glider!!

Bonk!

Violet

Huh. I must have missed this book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I knew about 5-digit dialing, but never knew people used to dial only 4 digits. That’s pretty neat, and probably made life with a rotary phone much easier than people my age realize.

I’m a younger millennial so it was no big deal to grab the landline and dial 1+10 digits to call my girlfriend long distance in 2009. On a rotary phone, it’d probably have taken til supper just to dial lol

I did find a rotary phone in a box at my great grandmother’s house once and played with it because it was fascinating to me. Then I dialed a random 800 number on it and remarked that it was kinda amazing that so many people bought things over the telephone in the day.

But it’s also why heavily populated areas have certain area codes. These numbers were just faster to dial. For instance:

• 212: Manhattan
• 213: Los Angeles
• 214: Dallas
• 312: Chicago
• 313: Detroit
• 314: St. Louis
• 321: East Central Florida
• 323: Also LA
• 332: Also Manhattan
• 413: Pittsburgh
• 415: San Francisco

Generally, if the area code took less time to dial, odds are it’s an urban code. The emergent pattern is when middle digit is 1 or 2. Like 816 for KCMO or 918 for Tulsa or 416 for Toronto.

And if it featured higher digits or a zero, it was probably rural. Area Code 907 was established in 1957 for almost all of Alaska. That’s 26 total pulses. 906 is for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and was put into service in 1961 after splitting off from 616, which services Grand Rapids.

Many of the high digit urban area codes were put into use after touch tone dialing became widespread since any number took just as long as any other to dial.

One thing I thought was funny about the way phones used to work is 5-digit dialing. So I reckon that larger towns in the area code got lower numbers as the third digit in their exchange codes because those dialed fastest, but I don’t know that for sure. What I do know is the town where I grew up has a population of about 400, and that digit is 9. The next town over is the county seat with a population of 20,000, and its original exchange codes end in 1 and 2.

That’s how it always works. Not too dissimilar from the, “The only moral abortion is my abortion,” kind of mindset.

That trick was a real treat.

Maybe this is why I love to goose it and bang through gears down on ramps. That quick adrenaline hit never gets old.

I’m an at-will employee writing this comment from my desk job. I worked hard for that “achieved greater than expected results” last year, and you bet your whole ass I’m gonna take a few extra poops now if I wanna.

Here’s a video edit of the milk mixture.

I was trying to put a new SSD in my laptop recently, but it didn’t recognize it. So I figured it needed a firmware update. I figured I could do this in BIOS, but nope! The updater was in .exe format.

Fortunately, I had an old Windows 8 install disc laying around. I had to install Windows 8 for all of 30 minutes to update my BIOS so it would take my new SSD. And it still didn’t work! Well at least the BIOS is as up to date as it can be.

Here’s a snip of the odometer from my 1997 Prelude from four days ago. ;)

It’s a 2012. It’s the first year of the 9th gen so yours would have been between 06-11. Not a lot of exterior differences between 2011 and 2012, but the instrument cluster did get a pretty radical overhaul.

I love my Honda Civic!

That was 6 years ago now. How time flies. <3

Here’s the best feature a car can ever have.

Kitties on the dashboard screen!!

Here’s a more recent picture. One of the wheels had a valve stem hole that wasn’t in line with a lugnut hole, meaning the wheel covers wouldn’t fit. I bought an OEM wheel to replace it and put the wheel covers on, and it looks way better now.

Witch transit safety standards have come a long way since 1137 AD. Despite the smaller size, they are more than capable of supporting and protecting the average witch.*

~*American witches may opt for our enhanced support package.~

Nah, the installer is much more tame than it used to be. I just like to poke fun at ye olden times.

I did make a huge recent mistake by using an NVIDIA GPU on Debian. Every time it updated was playing Russian roulette with “is this gonna break my system and send me into six hours of troubleshooting?” Til I finally said fuck it and swapped it with my brother for his AMD card. And I haven’t had a single issue since.

I like Debian, but NVIDIA drivers just refused to play nice for any extended period of time.

All I know is I survived the Debian installer. But at what cost?

It’s my belief that one day a bunch of nerds way smarter than you or I will figure out how to run Linux on Apple Silicon. As many Macs as there are out in the wild, there has to be a market for this kind of thing once all these Macbooks start becoming e-waste.

Big beautiful woman. A term used by men who prefer a sturdy gal. Like Tom Hanks in Black Jeopardy.

Yeah, it’s a tragic name for the dyslexic lol

I recently found cmus and have really taken a liking to it - mostly because it’s really lightweight, and I love the novelty of my music player running in the terminal.

Oh and I get to do really cute, useless things nextt it

But I’ll have to give Aqloss a try :)