I don’t even though I am old enough to have the scar.
TND knows how to slalom water ski.
False. I can water-ski (although it’s been many a year), but I was never that skilled.
The next Doper has a sleeping child no more than two rooms away.
False, I have a wife across the house though.
TND has a tattoo he/she will link to pictures of
SSG Schwartz
False. No tattoo, and too lazy to get the camera anyway.
I bet TND has multiple piercings that s/he will link to a picture of, though.
Nope. Pierced ear that hasn’t had anything in it in years. But it never grows over.
TND has obsolete/dead computer components that they’ve never gotten rid of.
True. But I’m looking for an OS for my old 80186 IBM PC Convertible. (The ENIAC to the modern ThinkPad’s calculator, if you will.)
TND has never seen John Safran vs. God.
True. In fact I have no idea what you’re talking about.
TND has in fact been a fetus. Seems like a pretty safe bet altough if anyone here has been hatched from an egg or emerged fully formed from the the head of Zeaus I’d like to hear about it.
True. I was a fetus once, almost 43 years ago. Unlike Athena, I did not spring fullgrown from the forehead of Zeus. Or at least, that’s what my parents tell me.
The next Doper likes one particular Disney movie much more than any of the others.
Well, I ** * watch * ** one Disney movie much more than any of the others. Cars Almost daily. Its my son’s current favourite, and our conversation is peppered with references. And I can still watch parts of it, and enjoy it, after two solid months of daily viewing, so I guess that counts
TND is seriously considering getting a new computer or laptop in the next few weeks.
My left laptop ‘mouse’ button is broked. I hate having to use a USB mouse.
TND had dreams of being a professional athelete.
More info. I’m hooked on this show. It’s Australian, but it runs on the Sundance Channel here.
And WRT “the right conditions” you mentioned earlier, I think that’s key. Unfortunately, there was a lot of awkwardness and anxiety from 2/3 of the group.
OS: Operating System. Like Windows vs. Mac OS vs. DOS, except in the case I mentioned it’ll be something a lot older.
80186: A mostly forgotten computer technology standard from the early 80s. Remember how everyone was still using a “386” PC in the early 90s, before the Pentium came out? That was the 80386, and before that came the 80286. The 80186 was the largely ignored one before that and after the much more successful 8086.
PC Convertible: A gigantic “laptop” from that era, about the size of two thick Calculus books laid side to side. The screen flipped up and open just like a modern laptop, but it took up only about half the length of the computer, because they needed the rest of the space for all the electronics. (Modern laptops, of course, have a screen the same size as the rest of the computer.) The end effect is like putting down a convertible car’s top. Hence, PC Convertible.
ENIAC: The first computer (basically), which was about the size of a room, but had all the utility of a modern-day four-operation calculator–yet much, much more finicky. The very first computer “bug” was actually a real bug that had died on one of the ENIAC’s vacuum tubes, rendering it inoperable until someone found the bug and removed it.
And ThinkPad is (well, was until recently) the IBM laptop brand. I’m using one right now. The old beast I’m trying to start running again basically looks like an ancient ThinkPad, other than the whole “convertible” thing.
Back to the game!
TND wishes he could get into speed metal, but can’t freakin’ stand it.
False. No interest whatsoever in speed metal.
The next Doper is Owen Wilson’s pusher.
False, although that would be a case of a Doper supplying a doper.
TND has seen at least one episode of the PBS series History Detectives.
False, and I like history, too.
TND has a blog.
False.
TND reads the Language Log.
False. I have seen History Detectives, though.
The next Doper is secretly hoping to be named the next Attorney General.
True. Only because if I were it would really piss Bush off.
TND knows what bit me the other day…my mom said it was a brown rucluse spider. And I could look foward to my face rotting and falling off in the next few day. Now, there aren’t any ruculive spiders around her (NJ) as she well knows. But shows where I got my sense of humor.
Does TND know what I’ll be dying of this week?
False (and don’t you mean a “recluse” spider?).
The next Doper has swallowed no more than 3.57 spiders in his/her lifetime.
Who’s to say?
For some reason, TND thinks that Michael Vick will play pro football again, ever.
False. I don’t think he could even get into pro-wrestling now.
TND prefers pan pizza to thin crust.