Mike, First of His Name
First complication encountered:
"Alright thank you. One moemnt while I search for your account.
I have made an initial search of your account # and found this account is under our old billing system that apparently we don't have an access with here. I can connect you to the team who can assist you with this."
This is going to be fun.
Mike, First of His Name
Hoo boy, today I get to spend time talking to Optus about a problem with our internet connection, which means I need to convince them that I have already eliminated all the simple things on their script and please just actually look for a problem.
Mike, First of His Name
@PinkCathodeCat there doesn't seem to be a lot there that isn't already on various archive sites, honestly. Came from someone who seemed to mostly be there for the C64 games.
Once I've figured out a good way to transfer stuff around though, I'll definitely make sure anything interesting is kept safe.
Mike, First of His Name
@mil haven't looked through everything yet but I'm pretty sure I have a disk image of it somewhere. Good little game, I played the hell out of that as a kid!
Mike, First of His Name
@Funkpirata I had a lot of fun in Adelaide during Fringe last year.
Mike, First of His Name
@urbanfuzzy it's winter and I'm walking around in a t-shirt what is this wizardry
Mike, First of His Name
I'm in Adelaide and somehow it's sunny and 20 degrees and generally a nice day and I'm very confused.
Mike, First of His Name
@Nikolai_Kingsley oh hey I'm going through Tintinara tomorrow, it's been raining recently so I'm hoping for weird mud.
Shlee
Goals.
Mike, First of His Name
@dona that's pretty damn loud!
Mike, First of His Name
Having a favourite fish and chip shop where you know it'll be good every time is great. It's not so great when it's 250km from your home and you don't get there very often.
Mike, First of His Name
@PaulfromOz sounds amazing
bignose
Hey #Melbourne #BoardGame fans, I need players to test a game.
Hit me with a reply, if you can make it to Moonee Ponds this Sunday 2019-07-21 for a late afternoon start.
Mike, First of His Name
@robotcarsley @ajroach42 after reading this I thought "wow if Firefly started it, Battlestar Galactica picked up on it REALLY fast" and then I discovered they used the same effects company. Heh.
Mike, First of His Name
Up in Halls Gap today, having some quality #bird time.
Mike, First of His Name
@sajith good find! I'd actually even seen items from that same seller in search results, but only their USB versions. You're my hero.
Mike, First of His Name
@Nikolai_Kingsley of course it does. I have to admit though, I've been in the same job 9 years so if they were going to abuse that it probably would have happened by now.
Mike, First of His Name
@Nikolai_Kingsley nope, actually. I’m a permanent employee with a salary and a defined scope of responsibility, not an hourly contractor. It sucks sometimes .
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
I resent that my computer, the most complex and powerful machine I'll likely ever use, is turned on by some pissant little five-cent plastic button like it's a shitty VCR from the 90's. I want a massive ornate copper knife switch, as long as my forearm, with the lower position hand-lettered "HALT" and the engaged position labelled "COMPUTE." When I go to use my computer, I want it to know I MEAN it.
Mike, First of His Name
I finally got around to setting up feedtube.com as a dedicated RSS-to-ActivityPub domain. Not taking feed submissions from the public yet, but may in the future. Let me know if there's something you'd like to follow that'd make a good test.
Test forum feed from
Yellow Plastic is here: @yp_retrocomputing - might be a good way to follow things.
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