Revenge of DESQview

I love DIY music of any kind. Weird Javascript synths, PVC pipe flutes, badly tuned wooden vibraphones on the playgrounds, tissue box and rubber band guitars - give me all of it. Every time someone builds something to make a sound they're doing art, expressing one of the things I love most about humans - that we like to make interesting noises. (and ugly ones too!)

The _physicality_ of music is maybe the closest thing I can think of to real actual magic. We build these devices to modulate the pressure of air in specific ways so that we can transmit sound. Us humans have got built in hardware that is capable of incredibly fine control of air pressure and hardware for decoding those pressure waves into language - and even sometimes to bypass the language decoding and hit us directly in our emotions.

Take some time to really think about how sound works and how we're able to produce and receive it. It sounds like something out of a fantasy novel!

I always come back to this saying:

“Debugging is the art of figuring out which of your assumptions are wrong.”

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Another hand gesture you will frequently see in religious art is a figure (usually a Pope or bishop) pointing upwards with their index and middle finger. This is somewhat unnatural since you would generally point with your index finger alone. The use of two fingers represents the divine and human natures of Christ.

A few examples:

https://i2.wp.com/catholicism.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/fil...

https://jimmyakin.com/wp-content/uploads/st-augustine-and-fo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VIII#/media/File%...

It shows up in formal photographs of the Pope in the 20th century:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ch3pBw3dBY0/WeG5Oo9_k1I/AAAAAAAAC...

And the TV series The Young Pope even included this gesture as a detail: https://youngpopesart.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

I love old terminals. I used to sit at the ones in the library for ages (I often managed to 'escape' into the data controller somehow :P ). And at college, all the X-Terminals were often occupied because they were the only way to run NSCA Mosaic to see this cool new "Internet" stuff. Meaning the rooms full of green screen terminals were completely deserted. I usually took two for myself (This was before I learned of Gnu Screen and tmux lol)

I still have my own VT520 <3 Not getting rid of it (my girlfriend keeps asking why do I keep that old thing around, grrr)

In the late 1990s, my dad attended night classes with other adult learners to earn his MBA. Everywhere he went during those years, my dad had a beeper clipped to his belt for an on-call hospital rotation. During his first week of class, my dad's beeper loudly went off during the middle of the lecture. As my dad scrambled out of the lecture hall to call the number on the little screen, the professor accurately guessed: "You're a doctor, aren't you?"

I was a trainee in an IBM lab nearly 40 years ago. All developers including myself worked using VM/CMS. That I remember for sure.

With production workloads I had nothing to do, so I am not sure what was the most commonly used OS. Pretty sure no bank clerk, airline counter or similar ran CMS.

Can one see original Eliza sourcode anywhere?