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Sun 2011 Jul 17

I never really used floppy disks that much, and only did because I had to and not because I wanted to. And man did it tick me off when they went bad, which happened a lot. Back in the day there was this WWF wrestling game I had for my Commodore 64. It was expensive and I really, really liked playing it. It was two 5.25-inch floppies and then one day the second disk went bad, even though I oh-so-carefully took great care of the disks and properly put them away after each use. I was not happy. Just about all of my other memories with floppies are exactly like the one I just described. The floppy was just notoriously unreliable. It wasn't a matter of if they would fail but when.

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B movies from the 80s
Sat 2011 Jul 2

There are three B movies from the 1980s that as far as I'm concerned stand out more than any other. H.O.T.S. (1979, not 80s but close enough), Screwballs (1983) and Porky's (1982). All three of these epitomize what raunchy sex humor is supposed to be in a B movie.

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the firm
Sun 2011 Jun 26

The Firm is a flick I'm surprised I haven't written about before. I've watched it at least 4 or 5 times.

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banana squier, day 142
Thu 2011 Jun 23

On February 1, 2011 I bought a new Arctic White Squier Bullet Strat - the second Squier I've ever owned.

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2 bakshi animated films
Tue 2011 Jun 21

A long time ago back when I was attending Lyndon State College in Vermont before I transferred out and finished my degree at New England Tech, I was living in a dorm. Because college dorm life was somewhat boring, I bought a VCP, which is a VHS videocassette player, meaning a VCR with no recording ability. Bear in mind this was the early 1990s.

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