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9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Top Gun Day - Behind t... · 0 replies · +4 points

They made an entire TV series about my former working place, too. It's called "The Office". I should probably refrain from posting pictures...

9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Unified Theory of Raci... · 1 reply · +7 points

As low-number teenager (let's say 12yo), I flew in a Cessna in MS FlightSimulator 4... that world was flat and empty.
As older teenager I actually had the money to buy FS5. I read somewhere that the Spirit of St.Louis flew very low, so I tried the same, and ended in a crash at a map tile border: Charles Lindbergh really was lucky not to smash into a stuck pixel.

9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Home Movies, Now In Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

Ah! Pierre Richard, doing the stallion... Seems to be my memories of the 80ies day!

9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Home Movies, Now In Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

That buffer.. I worked at a company that made audio and video "furniture" for entertaining children in malls etc. That kind of buffer is more easy on the tape material than the tension necessary to wind it up on reels, and a loop is easily implemented, too. (edit: for multiple copies)
I also learned there that a job that demands education is way more interesting than labelling 2,000 audio cassette tapes.

9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Shutdown: Ad Birds · 0 replies · +2 points

Obviously not Palatino.

9 years ago @ Atomic Toasters - Shutdown: Ad Birds · 2 replies · +3 points

Yes, but they should have used Italic.

9 years ago @ Hooniverse - The Tata Nano Debacle · 0 replies · +1 points

I remember my grandfather leasing a Kia or Hyundai mid-90ies, insane concept. Before that he took a 5y-loan for a new (new as in: they came right from the manufacturer) Lada... He got the gist of owning a new car (less surprising cost developments), but never aspired to own something more up-market.
These customers, sigh...

9 years ago @ Hooniverse - 1981 AMC Eagle: A Most... · 0 replies · +3 points

... with Fiat X1/9 door handles!

9 years ago @ Hooniverse - Hooniverse Asks- What'... · 0 replies · +1 points

They'll happily replace it over and over again, though!

9 years ago @ Hooniverse - Comment Issue - We're ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I felt two years younger!

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