Midnight Pub

a nod to the merciless heropass

~inquiry

           I need to work on my
                impatience
        as it feels what I'll call
            "waiting anxiety"
        has become too frequent a
                lead pipe
               to the shin

(Oooh... is time, perhaps, merely impatience set to a tick-tock-ly beat?)


johano

Seems to me that impatience is tied to the desire for things to be other-than-they-are-for-the-moment...

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inquiry

Holy why-is-there-never-a-"Like"-button-when-you-really-need-one! :-)

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johano

Diolch yn fawr a ti :D

Well, Station has a "thumbs-up" function, so it's technically feasible, but I have no idea how much of smol.pub/Midnight's code would have to be tweaked to implement it here...

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inquiry

I was being facetious. I'd much rather genuinely reply than do about the only thing Eternal September refugees and their descendants can do on a computer (i.e. click said 'like' button).... <coughs>

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tskaalgard

The illiteracy began much later than Eternal September.

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inquiry

In my mind, Microsoft and Apple inadvertently conspired to smooth what might have been at least merely a downward spiral into a full-fledged downward free-fall.

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tskaalgard

Eventually I agree. I think we only disagree on the starting point. Even in the late 90s the barrier to access for the internet kept most of the brainrot out.

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johano

I understand 😃 I also get the Eternal September reference and infer that you, like myself, are of a certain age to remember the early net pre-Web...

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inquiry
> I also get the Eternal September
> reference and infer that you, like
> myself, are of a certain age to
> remember the early net pre-Web...

"Those were the days my friend; we thought they'd never end". ;-)

Yeah, fun times: email, USENET, IRC, [s]ftp, telnet, ssh, etc.

(Never got much into gopher, although at times I wish I had... messed with it a bit earlier this year.. too old to remember the result(s)... :-) ).

First ISP was one "mhvnet" mentioned

here.

(Definitely remember the name "Jay Hawkinson", but never met him.)

I also had ongoing shell account bliss at

SDF.

I'm hoping to get back with the latter at some point, time permitting. But I'm suddenly massively busy: another rental to bring to rent-ability, taxes due this coming Monday (heh: originally typed 'money'..), need to work on the website of the young feller I recorded a few weeks ago (he didn't like that his personal Paypal account was revealing his real name, so he created a business account, so I need to hook that into his "merch" scenario...).

Then again, the need to get back with that was diminished when I figured out how to host static webpages from Google Drive.

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johano

I started with dial-up BBSes and my first exposure to Unix-y stuff wasn't 'til college, had a shell account on

https://www.nyx.net/

Back in the day... also in a twist of fate my first serious relationship was with an old-school Unix hacker / sysadmin, who helped with learning lots of things...

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inquiry

Awktually, I'd be quite grepful to have been able to sed that.

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johano

I echo what you sed there, he was a cool cat 😃

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