Retired network engineer. Independent Swift dev. MacOS Apps: “CIDR Trainer”,“Network Mom ACL Analyzer”,“Network Mom Availability”,“Netrek”. CCIE #8302 Emeritus
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In Scalzi’s book “Redshirts”, the Astrogator (based on Checkov) suffers PTSD from almost being killed every week/mission, but then miraculously recovering repeatedly. 😂
Could have been based on O’Brien too.
Nice photobomb!
I got two shots of the F35s south of Cupertino at 12:42pm 11/8/26. Presumably the same group. There were four, but one was flying loose so my pictures only captured three.
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Netrek (1989) was the first Internet team game.
College students played it over the Internet before the World Wide Web was created.
It introduced teams, logins, saving stats between games, chat, and switching the network protocol between TCP/UDP during play (for performance reasons).
It’s still played occasionally. Newer clients get implemented for newer operating systems periodically.
Originally we played it at 5FPS.
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I took some 15-20 year old items to the Apple retail store for recycling. The 20-something retail employees seemed very interested 😳 in some of them.
Someday I’m going to need to dispose of my (nonfunctional) Mac Portable 😂
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Here’s the TSR price list at that moment in time: note that the Monster Manual is the only AD&D book.
This is from the back of my copy of Metamorphosis Alpha.
Pardon the pencil marks: that’s a much younger me making purchasing decisions 😢
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Price list from the back of Metamorphosis Alpha.
Note how the Monster Manual was the only AD&D book at this time.
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