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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I unplugged the monitors from the wall and wrapped a single hair-width strand of copper wire around the positive and negative terminals, and put the plug pins just barely back in the socket so it looked loose.

    When the person investigating the faulty monitor pushed the plug in, the copper would evaporate in a bright flash.

    Later that night I would dumpster-dive behind the computer lab at the school for the thrown-out, ‘faulty’ monitor. That’s how I got my first 17" CRT monitor for gaming on Counterstrike.







  • The year is 2045. My grandson runs up to me with a handful of black cords

    “Poppy, you know computers, right? I need to connect my Jongo 64k display, but it has CFONG-K6 port, and my Pimble box only has a Holoweave port, have you got an adapter?”

    Sadly I sift through the strange cords without a shred of recognition. Truly my time on this mortal coil is coming to a wrap