Through the blackest still of the night, where all hope seems to have vanished in a toxic stew of Politico's, morons, and general shittyness, out of nowhere, a ray of bright shining light can be seen at the far horizon. Leave it to the Thunder From Down Under to kick the fucking door down, take 2020 by the balls and say ok, bub enough is enough. From this point on, the trend is reversed, hope is attainable, people are civilized, and viri will be squelched. So remember, next year, when you are living life again, it all started with the dirty deeds of the best Rock N Roll band of all time. Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi!!!!!
Having always been a technology fan, especially into computers, you learn something early on. The Early Adopter Tax. If it’s new, hot, and you want it now, you will pay double for it compared to the price that it will surely sink to within six months. It’s always fun (and somewhat painful) to go back and see what you paid for early gadgets. I have blogged about this before, having obtained my first computer from my dad who “traded” a complete central air and heat system for our Atari Setup. At the time, we came out REAL good on that deal. The early Atari’s were EXPENSIVE. Looking back, it was insane. In the late 80’s early 90’s, before the proliferation of Teh Interwebs, BBS’ were all the rage. I ran a fairly successful single line BBS called Castle Rock for almost 3 years. The early days of online computing, speeds were not gauged on your CPU , but your modem was the bottle neck. For a long time, we were stuck at 300 baud, which was insanely slow. Then the jump to 1200 baud.
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