Nathan Strum

Yep. Marcia Lucas was one of three editors. They won the Oscar for editing that year.

Han Solo's name is just a stupid masturbation joke, so what's the big deal? Chronic masturbators always shoot first.

By the way, Han Solo's name was originally going to be Prem Atureeja Culation, but the guys at Industrial Light & Magic convinced George to change the name.

Marcia Lucas reportedly had a LOT more to do with the success of the first three Star Wars films than is generally recognized. Odd that she's all but disappeared in recent years.

Haha Carlsson,...I just bid and lost on a lot with a TAC 2 Joystick!

a2600land: You're reading it Monday, I posted it Sunday.

Today will not be known as Taco Tuesday. It will be known as freedom Friday, but still on a Tuesday!

Toilet paper.

Hopefully not the off-brand stuff.

You got TP! Top Points in playing Costco Crusaders...

Carlsson - I still have to put the stock ones back in. If the Mac itself is bad, it will crash right away. If the third-party RAM was bad, it will run fine. The problem is, the RAM is non-trivial to replace, and the oddball Torx bit I need is at work. I don't feel like going in to get it during my weekend off.

MrMaddog - I've replaced RAM in hundreds of Macs over 30 years. It's part of my job. That's why this is so frustrating.

Two possibilities: the RAM is bad (possible) or it's not the rated speed (also possible). The Mac Mini is expecting DDR4-2666, not the slower and more common DDR4-2400. If you got exactly the right spec I'd just get the seller to swap it out. I always buy on Amazon from Amazon direct for stuff like this, because it's super easy to have them ship you replacements immediately if you're a Prime member.

It read as the correct speed on the Mac (when it ran), and I've never gotten the wrong product from DMS. If the RAM is bad, they have a lifetime warranty on it.

Can't do it by mail - I have to go in person this year. I'm just trying to make the appointment to go in, and that's becoming an ordeal.

The DMV Motto: We Hate Everyone.

Every so often ya gotta bite the bullet,...Grab a 3DS or Atari FB Portable and go wait in line

^LOL

The trend is clear https://xkcd.com/418/

Bacon is life. Bacon is love. Bacon IS

I don't pay a dime for Spotify. I just put up with the ads. No worse than actual radio.

At one point I signed up for the FREE Trial (Either one month or 3) of whatever they call their Premium version (No Ads)...It's FREE just give us your Credit Card Haha, I should have known. A day before the trial was up I canceled. Except the "Cancel" button on their website didn't work! But they had a contact us email, I want to say they even had something for an email us to Cancel, Which I did! And they still charged my card! I had to sic the Credit Card c...

...Company on them.

I just reached over 5 views!

Need to hit a billion. Of course, I don't know if that's the short scale or long scale billion....

Mine is over a million views. I guess that's what happens when you update a blog for over 10 years.

Is that possible?

Good question. I would think so.

Not unless they are designed like so.

Get bent Kennedy.

What Lucas did 20 years ago was CRIMINAL. He vandalized a work of art.

I too am satisfied with the 2004 DVD releases. They're not restored or cleaned up but they're how I remember them in the theater. Complete with the giant, stray hair in the desert scene with R2 and 3PO.

Oh well, guess I can download the Demake Project films w/o any guilt now...

How about when you had only 3 TV channels? Not 500+ like we have today!

@NE146 Agreed. It's one thing to have an attention span, but another thing to actually sit through advertisements. Like no, I don't want to buy whatever junk product or service you're trying to sell me, let me watch my show!

I love that button! I use it all the time! And "Auto Hop" on my DISH!

Well, I had to clean my freezer afterwards, so I guess it worked.

Ever take a soda from sea level to 9000 feet?

I poured cold Coke into my dirty toilet and the temptation to drink it was too strong. The weird thing is, it didn't taste any different, but it was extra chunky.

I'll take a pastrami sandwich, with hot mustard on it, and on rye bread

The correct spelling is sammich.

i bet Albert would have a ham sandwich before a turd sandwich, therefore not last. PWND.

The moral of the story is ...

I went the speed limit on the Interstate!

Parking between the lines. All. Day. Long.

One of these: http://atariage.com/forums/blog/118/entry-9980-to-do-or-die/

Imagine if you plugged in the VCS FuFme, but then accidentally put in the X-Man cart.....YEOWCH!

The world warriors

Lou Ferrigno looks surprisingly small sitting behind a table signing autographs for no one.

Cosplay + mask of any kind = really poor peripheral vision.

Spending the evening at Disneyland. Funny... not nearly as many costumed weirdos here.

I was able to get a few of them still sealed. Minty-fresh! A couple of them though, not so much - a bit on the scratchy side. But for 40-year-old vinyl, not bad.

Would love to get a few sealed copies.

Sounds quite chill ...

Everybody post your "member since" dates! It will be fun, like that time you dropped your cell phone into a toilet full of floaters.

Member Since 23 Apr 2001.

Member Since 6 Nov 2001. When did the site go live?

In April 2001.

(Sorry, j/k, but I couldn't resist!) LOL

Did he also have a tale?

First thing I read this morning, cup of coffee in my hand...That's pretty hilarious!

Einstein said so, after a particularly long lunch break.

Lunch Is Life

Chicken or beef?

The Star Wars stuff is retarded, but Nissan has a new variable compression engine that is kind of cool.

The Star Wars stuff is retarded, but Nissan has a new variable compression engine that is kind of cool.

I like Star Wars but not Nissan. Can't please everybody.

Maybe it's not too late! George Lucas could do another Special Edition with an all-new CGI lightsaber fight between Luke and Darth Vader. Then they could make new action figures to go with it.

I have some scissors and super glue you can borrow..

While they're at it, they could add Jar-Jar Binks, to help move some of those Jar-Jar action figures that nobody wanted.

During the climactic scene where Vader turns on the Emperor and rescues Luke, Jar-Jar could walk across the screen behind them and fart.

Hey i found a fingernail in my pizza.

Actually, the animals were already dead before the pizza was made (I hope!), so strictly speaking, you're right: the making of the pizza didn't harm them.

Still, I appreciate their tasty sacrifice.

Not impossible, just not efficient. We don't have anything at the scale of Shenzhen's manufacturing.

We don't *right now*. But neither did China before Apple started partnering with the manufacturers there to ramp up production scale.

Notice that the US manufacturer was able to produce at scale before, they just reduced production, staff, and retooled because all USA manufacturers left for China. If they come back, why couldn't they do it again?

It will take an investment, but not different than the original investment put into China.

It's also worth remembering that in America, workers won't (generally) work themselves to death. In Shenzhen they don't get a choice.

Just take off the lid and swap out the broken parts!

oh wait

At the moment, it's working again. Maybe because I spent money at the Apple store last night on a couple of new hard drives, and I appeased their wrath.

Spoke too soon. Still randomly shutting down. Now I have to figure out if I want to pay money to fix a seven-year-old iMac, or pay money to buy a "brand-new" one that hasn't been updated in two years.