it has come to my attention that contact is now possible with people living in an entirely different decade from me.
If you are living in the 2020s, while I and others are still living in the 2010s, please send word: what’s it like in the future? Is there hope? Or at least booze?
It is 00:32 where I live right now.
Nope.
Yes, if you choose to buy it and enrich some capitalist in the process.
Here on the west coast of NA, there is a decided trend in home-brewing beers. I know a bunch of people who have done that and a couple people who have made their own wines.
Of course, they still had to buy their equipment from somebody…
Well, what was freakish in the naughties is mundane in the twenties.
(As always)
Little late but: No hope but the last of my self made meade. No early adopter bonus I could see.
Ask me on 2021/1/1. Precision is not pedantism.
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The funniest pre-NYE comment I saw on facebook:
December 29th (12am on the 30th) is Ramones Eve.
Back in the early 2000s I did a number of speaking gigs in the US. Being of an antipodean disposition (i.e. naive in the ways of US audiences) I thought I would lighten things by starting with a joke: “By the way, some of you will be relieved to be informed that the world will definitely not end today.” Pause. “How do I know this?” Pause. “Because it is already tomorrow in Australia”.
At my age I am used to my jokes being greeted with a groan by my grandchildren, but here I got murmurs of hostility. Evangelical shitheads. And there I was thinking that a feature slot at Microsoft’s TechEd would be a safe space.