the car parked outside uses 8-track tapes - Pete D
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It was the oddest thing ever! I went over and picked it up and it was labeled with flower names. Took it to the shop owner and she said "Oh, that's a needlepoint pattern disk, one of my kids was playing with it". RANDOM. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
wow. my dad still has a huge collection of those with data on them. He has at least switched to using CD-Rs now, but the archives are still there. I have about 20 blank ones I kept in case of an emergency but got rid of the rest. - xero
Could be anything. Need a higher-res (or closer-up) photo. You don't have to store images on floppies anymore, remember? (Or, maybe it's a iPhone Nano dressed up to look like a floppy.) - Wade Dorrell
I had windows xp instruct me to insert the disk utility floppy disk the other day when I was trying to save a computer at work. Yea, no floppy drive. - mathew, keynote not lame
Wade =P I know it was a floppy because I went and picked it up. And this is as good as my G1 pics get when it comes to floppies that are 10 feet away =D - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
That's basically the conversation Dave and I had once we'd returned the disk: how long has it been since we've had a computer with a floppy drive? I think my Frankenstein'd server has one, but other than that the last desktop floppy we've had was on a box from around 2000. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Since when women have been interested in floppies? ;) - Jemm
We are now down to one computer with floppy drives (both 5.25" and 3.5"). We have a lot of data on floppies and zip discs, but rarely need to access it. It's just in case. - Anika Malone
It's like a thumb drive, except bigger and smaller all at the same time =D - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
A precussor to the sensible way to store data, besides did this person run out in embarsment after bringing in a Pentium 300 Laptop with Floppy A Drive, and how secure are those files like to be on there I wonder! - Josh Chandler
Reminds me of the "cool printer" my kids saw in a store a couple of years ago. It had keys with each letter of the alphabet on it and as soon as you pressed one of the keys, the letter printed on a piece of paper. They thought it was one of the coolest things they'd seen. - Kenton
They hear me roll'n sector by sector, they hate'n - Micah Wittman
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An old '01 Dell of mine which I used until '04 had a floppy drive. I doubt the drive was used more than a half dozen times though. Last time I can remember actively using them for anything but coasters is to store clip art and play DOS games like The Oregon Trail and Commander Keen in the early 90's. - Tom Harrison
I can honestly say I have used one in the last two months. Someone had a piece of software that they needed installed. I found a pc in the office and put the contents of the old floppy on a usb stick. It all felt too strange. That place has more than one 8 year old server running mission critical apps, too. - Tim Wright
I can't even recall the last floppy drive that existed in my house. I did find a floppy in the bottom of a box in my closet not too long ago and I thought about having it bronzed and mounted for displaying on my knick knack shelf. :) - Amanda H.
are you sure that your flux capacitor didn't send you to 1989? maybe it needs some adjustment? - Neil Bernhart
I keep one as a backup for sentimental reasons. - JлsonTFleming
I've got a stack of floppies somewhere. They have my old saved Space Quest, Kings Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry saved games on them. - Pete D
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@Pete I had all those games. they were awesome. I was a big Sierra fan back in the day. - Jason Shultz
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Sierra and Dynamix both, Jason. Oh, the days of installing Outpost 2 with its dozen plus floppies...joy! - Pete D
Dude, if Oregon Trail had been written on the front of this disk I wouldn't have even turned it in. That bad boy would've been slipped in my pocket with a quickness! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
but then you would have likely died of dysentery. man I always died of dysentery in that damn game . - mikepk
or snakebite. half the people in my wagons always died of snakebite. - Jessie
2019: CD-ROM? What's that? Just a little something that made everyone despise AOL. AOL? AOL was like Myspace before there was the internets. Myspace? Myspace was like a decomposing Facebook that's been left it in a landfill for 10 years. Oh, that's that smell? No, that smell is Facebook. 10 years of crap will do that. - ·[▪_▪]·
we use it! in my office when they want to send information to bank, they use Floppy disk and they always have at least 1 packages with 10! - خیزران
An old lady came into work the other day and pulled a floppy out of her purse. (I work in a Walgreens photo dept.) I didn't say a word other than "ooh, no" with a nose wrinkle and a shake of the head. - ::Kristen::
@kristen did you have to put on gloves and get out the tongs??? :) - Jason Shultz
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Which reminds me, i have a sister in law that works at khols. They now accept any returns as long as it's something they sell. A guy came into the store she works at to return three week old used underwear. she didn't even pull them out of the bag. - Jason Shultz
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You might be surprised to know what important things still require 3.5 inch diskettes. You know them big tubes you hurdle through the sky on, many still use them. Updating a working system doesn't make cost sense. - Steve Craft
Tina: OH! Yeah, that girl. She's freakin everywhere. - Matthew DeVries
our library sells floppies for 50 cents a piece. and people still buy them. and use them. go figure. o.O - Miriella
they make for good boot discs in some cases - Logan Lindquist
I think we need a room called RandomRoom, any takers?? :) - Jason
@Jason I think another name for FriendFeed is RandomRoom - Steve Craft
i actually have a usb-powered floppy drive... - edythe
I thought Kirk pretty much nailed the zinger - Lindsey in Love
I guess I was looking for a zinger that didnt question anyones personal faith, but yes Kirk gets a + for being quick and wity! :) - Cody Heitschmidt
If you are in downtown Toronto, you get proof that God is everywhere. - FatOracle (Kamath)
Best I can come up with is that I know lots of hippies that look like Jesus too... As for who exists, I thought it was a fairly accepted historical fact that Jesus as a person existed and it was the whole 'son of God' thing that people questioned. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Last I heard there is still some doubt as to whether or not the person existed as many of the sources used for proof were unreliable. I think the community is still leaning very heavily toward actual existence though. - xero
UH_OH I am forecasting deepness in the future of the post.... - Cody Heitschmidt
couldn't help but think of - "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." - David Knight
many historians speculate that the real human Jesus, if he did indeed exist, was essentially a social justice activist who advocated on behalf of slaves and the poor. This is why there are over 5,000 references to helping the poor in the bible (the parts of the bible that came from the original gospels, that is). - V for वज्र (vajra)
Steve we are working on a podcast, can't wait to get it over to you to check out (I hope)... - orionstarr
Yet the people who claim to love Jesus the most, treat the homeless the worst. Hmmm - Summer
Summer, what kinda stereotypical crap statement is that, quit with the bitter hater attitude. I am not a vocal Christian at all, but I do belong to a Church, I love Jesus the most, as much as anyone could, I never push it on people and I guarantee noone on here ever even knew. But my Church and the people behind it help people in need as much as anybody and morre than most. - Cody Heitschmidt
It's over the top steroetypical statements like yours that lead to everyone diggin in and going on the defensive and looking like radical idiots. That's like saying the most devote muslims blow people up or the blackest americans are gang-bangers or whitest skinned folks are kkk. Sorry to go off but folks we gotta get over this shit and let people live THEIR lives. - Cody Heitschmidt
One man's church is another's punchline, we go round and round.. - orionstarr
redirect to original post. No running water, no electricity, no shampoo, no scissors, no money sort of gives one a unique yet common appearance. - jlt (janet)
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and it smells all lemony :) seriously it does the job. - denise
I used to put my keyboards in the dish washer but since I started buying G15's and the like, I've been looking for a simple cleaning solution. This is neat. - Mattb4rd
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The closest thing to a like I can give Ben Folds... know of any remixes where his voice is completely stripped out, leaving the good music and great Regina? ;) - Michael W. May
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i used to do this all of the time. until my wisdom teeth surgery nightmare a couple of years ago. 3 months of dry sockets and infections. now just alternate between numbness and pain in the area (mainly numbness), but definitely too sensitive for chewing ice anymore. chew one for me! :) - cjmart
The best ice to chew is Sonic, who has the best ice for anything. - Trish R
The simple thought of chewing ice just sent shivers throughout my body. I think its the sound. I can't stand it when people around me do it, let alone me. - Mark Philpot
