The Macintosh Quadra 605 Connection Machine had the prettiest insides of any Apple machine, but was hidden inside the case of a barely upgradeable machine.
It's estimated only nine people ever got to see the CM040's blinkenlights.
@NanoRaptor
I had a Quadra of some model way back when at work. It’s the backstory for my user name, in fact. I always named the succession of Mac hard drives I had something cute and qurlyjoe is a mashup of Quadra and Curly Joe from the Three Stooges. I don’t recall ever opening one up.
When I was in high school, I REALLY wanted to take Photography but there was an additional materials fee and my parents couldn't afford it so I took Wood Shop instead.
As a result, I have a completely uneducated eye when it comes to taking photos and I'm probably breaking a lot of rules that I don't care about, but at least I can make an ugly clock out of a 2x4.
@Alice@Alice
I wouldn’t worry about those rules. Mainly just a bunch of gatekeeper wannabes made them up. Only one rule actually counts: If you like it, it’s a good photo. Ugly 2x4 clocks may have more stringent rules. Can’t speak to that.
I realize it is less than meritocratic and doesn't carry any real weight in legislative power but it is kind of cool Marge Green has become the face of the Republican Party because literally no one in congress knows less about the world and how anything works, gets quite as infuriated at concepts she doesn't remotely understand, and vomits semi-verbal hate with the same random apoplectic fury at anyone for the merest slight, like, say, they got the parking spot she wanted at Hobby Lobby.
It's like they were working on a new mascot but had to keep going with the collateral designs so they just left a space marked "cartoon Dogpatch neo-Nazi Karen goes here" and then a flourish of music played and she strode right in from the wooded glade where a burning cross still flickered behind her.
@GrimmReality
I object only to your calumny of Dogpatch. I know Al Capp was republican, but at least in the beginning of his career, when I learned to read with Li’l Abner in the Sunday comics (along with Alley Oop) they weren’t the rabid lick-spittle lunatics we see nowadays. We can thank Barry Goldwater for that, imo. Joe Btfsplk was my favorite character. I just looked at wiki and there were a shit ton of characters I’ve forgotten about.
But other than that you’re right on with 3-toes.
@LikeItOrLumpIt
Nor even worry about living up to one’s own definition of something, given how likely one is to be mistaken about it, for so many reasons.
Infuriated another driver by refusing to turn right on red so that they could subsequently turn right on red for the silly reason that turning right rather than forward on green would have taken me further from my destination.
@Binder
I ♥️ passive aggressive driving too. I’ll go just under the speed limit when some asshat is tailgating me, saying to myself, speed limit’s a max, not a min. 🤣
@dougiec3
And they have billion$ because we (taxpayers) have been giving them billion$ in subsidies for decades. We’re fucking paying their legal bills. Is this a great country or what?