Mastodawn

Back in my yoof I used to visit the same Chinese restaurant with two disparate groups of people.
One group had pre-dinner drinks, fried rice, individual dishes and forks.
The other group had Jasmine tea, steamed rice, shared dishes and chopsticks.
It was instructive to see how differently to two groups were treated.
#RandomMemory

Dude Jan 31

Just thinking about that time in college where a friend told me how she got nematodes from eating a dirty potato. Not the kind of details you want to hear in a cafeteria #RandomMemory

Jon Henshaw Jan 30

One of the worst experiences in my career was trying to teach a group of lawyers how to use the internet in 1995. Worst students ever.

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EddieBurrs

Oct 27

I grew up near Disneyland so I went there a lot. I remember that hard hit of cigar smoke in between the general smell of all day cigarette smoke when walking around Disneyland. I would think to my cub self, how could anyone put that in their mouth? Then one day in the early 90s that all went away.
#randommemory #randomthoughts #childhoodmemories

John - 🎞️ Film Nerd 🎞️May 28, 2025

#RandomMemory

I started listening to the Dos Game Club podcast episode about Wing Commander.

3 memories occurred. Seeing a preview of WC1 in ACE magazine and being sad it wasn't coming to Atari ST.

Watching a friend's WC3 promo CD, which had an out take reel from the live action filming. Tom Wilson is a pretty funny guy.

Getting WC4 DVD edition with my Creative Labs MPEG2 decoder card.

This meant my PC had two video pass-through cables. Video card ➡ 3Dfx card ➡ MPEG2 Card ➡ Monitor!

R.L. Dane

🍵

Apr 7, 2025

#RandomMemory: Having dinner at someone's house in #Portland in #1996, and them commenting on how the city was getting really expensive, housing-wise.

I have no idea how anyone affords to live there (or any similar popular/populous/coastal cities) today, except for the few wealthy ones.

20 years ago, I dislocated my shoulder taking out the trash (yeah, I know )

I had a friend come pick me up and take me to the hospital and get it popped back into place. I had to take it easy for a while, and do physical therapy to get most of the strength and range of motion back (although it never fully recovered).

When I was giving my friend an update about a week later, he said, "Bless your heart!" and my brain kinda crashed for a moment, because it never occurred to me that the phrase could actually be used unironically and non-sarcastically. XD

#LivingInTheSouth, y'all. ;)

Code of Amor 💘Jan 4, 2025

This is a Port Jackson Shark Egg. In case you were wondering.
#randommemory
#shark
#portjackson
#egg
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R. L. Dane

Oct 31, 2024

#RandomMemory:

Around 10 years ago, I used a "correct horse battery staple"-style password generator to create my university password, and it gave me "Neologistic2twaddle!"

That still makes me smile.

https://xkcd.com/936/

#xkcd #PasswordGenerator