myrrh

...yeah, the first thing coming off are those shoes + pants...

...that was a significant theme in 2061: oddysey three...

...almost fourty years ago, pulse-dial 300-baud modem from my apple //e running VT-52 terminal emulation into a mainframe shell account: just green monochrome text displaying an rn client, you had to be very strategic about what you chose to display because with that kind of bandwidth characters scrolled across the screen slightly slower than your natural reading pace and significantly slower than skimming past anything you weren't interested in reading...

...most early usenet clients routinely displayed profound boilerplate warning of posts costing thousands of dollars in computing time, which were pretty intimidating to neophyte users!..

...i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..

...also, jiggle it to check if you're in neutral, then jiggle it again just to be sure: ooh, now you're stopped at a light, better jiggle it...

(okay, that's an easy tease, but as a compulsive habit it really does help cultivate kinesthetic proficiency through tactile feeback)

...those are what i use, but whereas i can avoid touching anything with my hands until using a towel and any residual dampness air-dries between my fingers and skin, hopping across the bathroom to a towel one foot at a time is awkward and best and my feet are pretty much going on the ground immediately after mostly-drying them...

...what do the money detector and red buttons do?..

...i have not thought about wingman's hangar for a long, long time...

...maybe he only protests on factorial dates so the signs stay manageable...

...you gonna write out that whole f*cking integer?..factorials make for snappy handheld signs...

...nah man, they're just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression...

...washing my feet in the sink is trivial; drying them well-enough not to track around slightly-damp feet afterward is a hassle...