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The human mind tries to make sense out of everything.

It depends a lot about what you have on your computer as startup programs. I have 32Gigs of RAM on my computer and it takes much longer than ten seconds to boot.

Merry Christmas to everyone at Atari.IO!!!!!!

I've always loved the guitar solo in Stairway To Heaven...

When I moved to my retirement condo I filled up an entire 96 gallon rolling plastic bin of VHS tapes for the garbage man. I think I have one remaining VHS player in a box somewhere along with the gadget to transfer tapes to SD card. Everything I own, except for a few hundred DVD's in now evenly duplicated among 3 8TB hard drives. I simply have no room for all that stuff, and since I'm not getting any younger, I don't want to leave behind a mess for my beneficiaries.

$799.00 for that first drive? That the equivalent of $2,252.05 in 1985 dollars. Now days you can buy a whole computer for that! What gets me about the add is that they make it sound like such a good deal.

The orientation of the habitat's dish towards the sun takes all that light and runs it down light tubes that illuminate the entire space. One would assume that a dish of that size, being some miles across, would be able to generate enough electricity 24/7 to accomplish a lot of tasks, heating, cooking and cooling being just a few.

Naw, more like this...

I'd prefer to hollow out a nickel-iron asteroid of reasonable size leaving at least a mile thick shell to solar block radiation, toss a bunch of ice in it, cap the ends, heat it up and introduce a spin. It would be like a small city after a few generations of growth and building. In case of over population or political differences, they could simply start a colony asteroid of their own. There's plenty of raw materials for the taking out there, and without the gravity well of Earth to hold you down, much of it would be easily accessible. Planets are nurseries for infant races.

The original batman and Dr. David Banner (The Incredible Hulk). About a dozen years difference in premiers IIRC.

Watch the video below from The Immortal John Hancock on YouTube!

Latest image of Uranus and it's moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

My parents had a Magnavox brand console stereo for a few years. It was fried twice in Italy due to failing/faulty power converters. Then somewhere between 76 & 78 Dad switched to a component setup, which was real nice. It's interesting now that many people do not even have stereos anymore, but use bluetooth soundbars to use with their cell phone or TV.

For the inquisitive guy who has everything, order fast though, Christmas is almost here... << ENDOSCOPE AT AMAZON >>

... also Ginger is too high maintenance.

@RickR Yes, I find the timer function useful for when I have pizza. I tell it Alexa, Volume 6... then ... Alexa, set timer for 25 minutes. I also use it for music, asking questions like, "Alexa, how far is Voyager 1 from Earth?" Playing the news and getting news alerts is cool as well. I've even reordered toilet paper with it.

I find it very useful for telling my Roomba to vacuum without having to futz with the cellphone.

Yes, I did say that in the past, but it also has a button on the top to disconnect the microphone.

I recently bought an Echo Dot and it's more useful than I ever imagined, but it does some really weird things as well. I bet most people didn't know it could fart! Yup, I kid you not. It's has all kinds of farts, loud squeaky farts, power farts, random farts, you name it.

This is the first year in a decade that I'm not getting anything new for my TI at Christmas time. But I'm betting some of you guys found that "I 'need' it" item. If so, what are you getting.

That brings up the age old question... Ginger or Maryanne? For me it's always been a no brainer, Maryann of course!