Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 07, 2023

Yes, your brain is a computer. Just a really bad one that needs to use Excel on a better computer just to balance your checkbook.

Pigeon balls ???

I’m 100% OK with drawing the definition there.

So the human brain is less advanced than a chainsaw or a pregnancy test? Both of them have been configured to run Doom.

She misses the point, the human brain DOES run Doom. The software just sits in memory on a machine until engaged by a human brain. Doom ONLY runs with a human brain. (even “display mode” must be human triggered).

Quantum mechanics?

That reminds me…is it true that fewer and fewer humans can pass the Turing test?

I haven’t used a floppy in years, haven’t seen a drive for one, either, and yet they won’t go away https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/. Still I guess it is better than 5 inch floppies or 9 track tapes.

Hah, I guess most of the computers sold in the last few years aren’t computers either, since none of them are going to be able to install Doom 1.0 from floppy disks. Also, no computer of any age with a *nix OS installed is going to be able to run Doom either, even if it has a floppy drive.

Doom! Excellent choice!

Was the original Doom available on floppy disks? I seemed to remember having to download it from an FTP site. It took forever with the slow-pokey modems they had back then.