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BASIC and the Timber Tom 'Beep Boop'

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This post was a voice recording transcribed by my Pixel 8 Pro, then cleaned up, proofread, and formatted by Google Gemini. It has been carefully scrutinized to make sure that it still accurately conveys my original message, and is less than 2% different outside of grammatical changes. (as a side note, as of 2/11/24, Gemini will actively refuse to correct anything with a cussword in it. The second paragraph had 'fuck' in it, and when it got there it would delete the response and say "I'm just a chatbot and can't help with this" Frankly, that is quite fucking lame.)

So, I was going through Y Combinator and saw a post about this dude who created a free version of BASIC (freebasic.net). BASIC is one of those really old programming languages, so it seems kind of pointless in this day and age because basically any modern programming language can do the same stuff easier, better, and faster.

Tom Petty is really great (and other core memories)

I think it is really interesting how a single moment in your life can make such a profound impact, even when, at the time, it really didn't seem very significant. I had just broken up with a long term girlfriend and found my rebound in a really nice girl that lived like 50mi from my house. It took a fairly significant (for young me) drive to get to her house, and, given the fact that I didn't have a stable job, took a significant toll on my finances. But, I made it work because I thought she was pretty cool. We went to a big concert in Tuscon (my first ever big solo experience without my parents or financial help from my parents, very memorable). Once we got home, we hung out for a while and then went to bed. The next day, she said her mom was asking when she was going to be home, and I (to my mind) very clearly joked that she needed to find her own ride back. It was something along the lines of "you think I am gonna bring you home? Hahah, get a load of this!" in a very sarcastic tone. She did not get the memo that I was joking, and things kinda went wild.