on the one hand, it'd be an amusing music history project to make versions of the song "1985" (by SR-71 and famously covered by Bowling for Soup) each year, to update the title and bands referenced.
But on the other hand, the song would now be called "2003"
which, by the way, is when 1985 was first recorded.
So it's the halfway point between the referenced time and now!
The songs gonna be about... Audioslave, Avril Lavigne, 50 Cent, Sum 41, Seven Nation Army, Remember by Disturbed, My Immortal (the song, not the fanfic), Hilary Duff, Milkshake, Johnny Cash's Hurt and Hey Ya by OutKast.
Although given that it's currently 18 years after a song about 18 years ago, the weirdest part is that the song is at risk of referencing the song "1985", which might explode the universe with a time paradox
They can also reference Stacy's Mom, which is pretty much the same song
My personal Grand Unified Music Theory is that Stacy's Mom and 1985 and Jessie's Girl are all the same woman.
and by "1985" I mean "Debbie from 1985". She's not named 1985.... the song names her. But it's the only one of the three that does.
Sadly... otherwise I could propose that she's actually Jolene.
maybe she changed her name after she got married to that CPA.
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fun fact: for a brief period in the early 2000s, Microsoft tried to increase the number of users who would register their software by employing hypnosis
This is actually the registration card that came with this odd piece of microsoft hardware. It's a set-top box from 2001 which displays JPEGs on your TV, off floppy disks.
I guess the idea is that it let you use a big living room TV to look at photos, instead of a small PC CRT?
shout out to ebay who periodically decides my search on "minisport" isn't getting enough results, so it decides I must have spelled it wrong, and corrects it to "mini sport", then suggests "men sport", and I get emails like this:
I DO NOT WANT TINY BASKETBALLS, EBAY
I WANT ZENITH MINISPORTS
anyway I went in and fixed the search to have quotes in it.
ebay will fiddle with your searches unless you quote it, but sometimes it may take months before that has a noticeable effect
Here's a CPT Phoenix Jr Terminal on ebay.
And wow, it's... weird!
Check out that portrait CRT, and angled keyboard!
It seems they tried to make the keyboard symmetric for... reasons, but the left numpad isn't a numpad, it's just got a bunch of custom keys, like TASK and PARA and LINE/SKIP/OUT/ADJ.
I imagine that was designed for customizing for the specific terminal task in mind?
fun fact: the 25th amendment has two sections which allow the vice president to take over from the current president: section 3 and section 4.
They've only been invoked three times, though one is debatable. In all three cases, it involved the president's butt.
Section 4 is the one everyone is talking about recently.
It's the one that lets the vice president take over because they've judged the president to be "unable to discharge the powers and duties of [their] office"
It has never been used, though there have been a couple cases where it was considered. Two with Reagan and two with Trump.
So the last part of the Datachecker that I haven't even done a basic overview of is this huge thing, which I've been calling "the analog box". Spoiler alert: that name is inaccurate
This was mounted right behind the front panel, between the two hard drives.
It turns out each one has a separate on/off switch.