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  1. It's a scorcher out there. Sweating my butt off just to save some money on the electric bill. Literally feels like opening an oven when you step outside

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      Cafeman

      I'll pay the electric bill. AC = on here.

       

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  2. Turns out actor Paul Reubens(aka Pee Wee) will also be calling into my show soon!  Livestreaming it on Youtube also in case you can't figure out the radio stream. Doing a Thanksgiving special tonight with the actor who played Yoda on Empire Strikes Back. Tune into the stream 12AM-2AMPst... https://kxsf.fm/listen/

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    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Gurdeep Roy right?  I love when he shows up. Was an assassin in an old Pink Panther film, as well as the Oomp Loompas. 

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  3. Something stinks in the bathroom.  It smells like an animal died.   We washed the rugs and the floor and everything.  There is still a smell. 

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      We had a similar dead mouse smell behind a wall in my game room.   I have traps to try to kill them before that happens, but it still happened. I searched in the drop-down ceiling and around the ducts in that room's ceiling (its in our basement/game room) but never found it so it had to be behind the wall.    There was nothing I could do. It took several weeks for the smell to completely go away.  My sympathies.  

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  4. I was at the liquor store in the Scotch aisle.  A woman next to me takes out her phone and says "OK Google - Call my baby daddy."

     

    There's no punchline.  I just kinda chuckled and thought "WTF".

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      I wish she'd stop calling me! 

  5. Why does Hulu have Star Trek 2 and 3, also 5 and 6, but NOT Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ??  

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Thanks! I searched on Roku, it actually loaded with a Prime load screen, but there it js.

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  6. Why does Hulu have Star Trek 2 and 3, also 5 and 6, but NOT Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ??  

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      Cafeman

      When I found no ST4, I started speaking with more colorful metaphors.  

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  7. Heading off to the hospital for back surgery. Can't wait to get this over with! 

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Heh heh it is indeed funny. Surgery was successful, now recovering and still feeling a little high from the pain medicine.  Took muscle relaxer so I'll probably be knocked out in 10 minutes!  

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  8. Woman caught not wearing a mask in public:

     

    https://youtu.be/GEStsLJZhzo

     

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Ha ha, I know the scene well! But didn't click it ... its too early to hear that noise! 

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  9. 10 years from now on eBay: Retro Covid 19 "6 feet apart signs!" Relive the covid nostalgia!

     

    Me: Nope. Not interested. We don't need covidage.com. There will be no nostalgia.

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      can't wait for Covid-20 and Covid-21 ... 

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  10. That ship is still there. Must be 2 weeks now.

  11. As I’ve said for the past 20 revisions – It’s finished and I’m not changing anything else!   … and I meant it every time

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      I've had it so long, I don't even notice it anymore.  But the subject makes me want to go grab a cup of coffee! 

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  12. As I’ve said for the past 20 revisions – It’s finished and I’m not changing anything else!   … and I meant it every time

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      For those of us not in the know ... what is "it" ? 

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  13. Have barely driven my vehicles the past two months, so getting a refund from my insurance company. Gee thanks for the $10 Liberty Mutual!  lol

  14. I'm 1/3 in shock, 1/3 sad, and 1/3 angry.

     

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Sorry to hear about the loss of your sister.

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  15. COFFEE TIME ! ....???HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND...................?

     

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    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      LIkewise!    It's too early to hear the Disturbed version of that song but S&G is fine! 

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  16. Finally bought "No Man's Sky" for the PS4. I chose the Creative game mode (explore and create freely). See you in a few years.

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      I bought it a year ago, we played it for an hour,and I never returned. Not that I hated it, just had other games to play. I've read how the devs had more and more updates to it (do you have to manually find the updates in the PS store? or how do you update the game - is it automatic?) 

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  17. It's a travesty that we still don't have a modern re-release of Sewer Shark.  Shoot the tubes, Dogmeat!

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      I cant imagine what that would like retrograded to 32K 5200 specs.

       

      If you are doing that, might as well use the same engine for Panzer Dragoon 5200. 

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  18. It's a travesty that we still don't have a modern re-release of Sewer Shark.  Shoot the tubes, Dogmeat!

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      The Sega CD game is surprisingly fun and entertaining. I'm no fan of FMV games but I can enjoy a few rounds of some of them. It would be nice to see it full screen in higher rez.

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  19. Is it it me or is AA traffic down quite a bit these past few days?

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      Cafeman

       AA has a lot more activity than other ancient retro sites that I still check now and then.  I think it might be a little on the quiet side lately.  Want me to post some daily updates of the YT 80's videos I watch each night? Scandal and Patty Smyth , baby! 

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  20. Is there an existing program for A8 development that takes text (as in dialogue/sentences) and converts into the hex codes (Atascii charset codes I assume?)  to store in your ASM program in tables?  

     

    For example I enter "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." and it spits out something like this: 

    .byte $34,$68,$65,$00, ....  ?

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Ok never mind the question, even TASM has a Text support, I just never used it.

       

      The BYTE directive allows a value assignment to the byte pointed to by the current Instruction Pointer. The format is: 
       [label] .BYTE expr [, expr ...]
      Only the lower eight bits of expr are used. Multiple bytes may be assigned by separating them with commas or (for 
      printable strings) enclosed in double quotes. Here are some examples: 
       label1 
       .byte "Hello", 10, 13, "World"

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  21. When did 'unpack' become a word that almost everyone says now? How did it get packed and why do I need to unpack it?

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      I have never heard unpack get used as an annoying business buzzword. So I googled it and found complaints about it's use going back years. 2016 article, for example.  I think of it as a vacation or moving task, or concerning compressed data. There is one female manager I know who tends to throw around buzzwords, I should pay attention more and see if she uses unpack along will drill down and "agile".  Now that I'm over 50, I'm not too agile. 

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  22. Happy fake money-making holiday.

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      are you referring to the day after Galentines Day? 

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  23. Broke my eyeglasses the other  day, and I've been wearing a 4-5 year old prescription backup pair. Getting in this afternoon to the eye doctor for an exam, and get some new glasses. I'm 44 and still not on bifocals yet, I keep expecting to have to switch to that sometime soon.

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Hope you aren't getting headaches wearing the old prescription!   

       

      I'm 51 and have had progressives for about 6 years.  Fortunately I've had the same prescription the past 3 years.   Presbyopia truly sucks since the sides/peripheral vision is always unclear now, and I have to direct my head straight-on to see things clearly, like reading smaller signs while driving.  Even if I get laser/lasic .. the bifocal/reading problem wouldn't  get fixed.   I will say my own anecdotal experience --  both I and wife went to Walmart optical first to save money, but those progressive lenses were CRAP compared to going to a real eye optician . My 1st pair, from Walmart optical, if I moved my head, the floor rolled like waves of the sea!   My 2nd pair on (from my usual family eye doctor) were much better quality.   I now get digital (they scan your eyes).  Other than the side-view blurriness, I don't even think about it most times.  

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  24. I thought Han shot Greedo first because he was great at reading body language and knew that Greedo was about to shoot. Later on we discovered that the Force is nothing but a measurable infestation of special germs, so maybe Han had enough of an infestation to give him a bit of ESP.

    1. Cafeman

      Cafeman

      Well put, Han read Greedo  like a book and his lightning fast reflexes were shown as he took him out. Next iteration, Lucas would probably have Han pull a Clayton Moore and just shoot the gun out of Greedo's hands.

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