XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On 2 Jan 2026 06:32:41 GMT   
   rbowman  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:18:42 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >   
   > > Back when electronics became cheap, remember how clocks were   
   > > incorporated into just about everything?  I had a ball-point pen with a   
   > > clock in it.   
   >   
   > I used those little round stick-ons to keep track of project hours. When I   
   > couldn't find one I bought a $5 wrist watch at a flea market. The   
   > department manager advised me I shouldn't leave a valuable watch by the   
   > monitor. At least a blue stick-on didn't look lile much.   
   >   
   > A friend bought a very early calculator for several hundred 1970s dollars.   
   > I must have pissed them all off but I have several calculators that were   
   > in the begging letters from various organizations in lieu of mittens or   
   > return address stickers. The must go for 10 cents in volume.   
   >   
   > Damn! Nobody sent me a calendar! I'm going to have to buy one.  Or not.   
   >   
   > $ cal 1 2025   
   >     January 2025   
   > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   
   >           1  2  3  4   
   >  5  6  7  8  9 10 11   
   > 12 13 14 15 16 17 18   
   > 19 20 21 22 23 24 25   
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   > Still works!   
   >   
   May I be the first to welcome you back to the start of last year, I hope   
   you can bring peace to Ukraine & the Middle East (other projects to be   
   announced after you've ticked those 2 off).   
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)