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Was the monolith found last week in the Utah desert some prop left from the WW set?

Quote: petroglyph

Was the monolith found last week in the Utah desert some prop left from the WW set?

Not sure but it was removed by a pro nature group that is determined to make sure everybody leaves our parks clean and pristine with no trash or structures.

Quote: Evenbob

And the fact the writers didn't even attempt to make any of the characters likeable is not a good sign.

Cold Cold Cold. Every character is unbelievably cold, although the AI characters developed their angry characters because of massive abuse.


Bernard Lowe is not really likeable, but he is less psychotic than the others.

Given the amount of nudity the coldness makes it strangely un-sexual. The exception being Clementine Pennyfeather.

Quote: Pacomartin

Cold Cold Cold. Every character is unbelievably cold, .

Watched ep 2. Oh. My. Dear. God.
What a convoluted mess of claptrap
nonsense. Why would anybody want
to see more of this. I found a video
that explains season 1 and it IS
'Lost' all over again. Puzzles within
puzzles, nothing is as it seems and
there's no rhyme or reason to it
because the whole thing is click
bait. It's written to lure you in and
feed you nonsense so you keep
watching HBO.. Just like Lost did
for network TV. Screw that.

I didn't even make it a third of the
way thru this video, I was so disgusted.

Silicon Valley, HBO. Saw the first 2
ep's and was totally impressed.
Laughed out loud a bunch of
times. Likeable characters, good
writing, good storyline.

I worked in Silicon Valley in 1977,
the year Elvis died. It was when
I got back from living in Hawaii.
Back then computers were using
giant rolls of tape to store memory
on and the company made the huge
tape cassettes..
It was pretty nerdy even then, the
guys who worked there. I hated
the whole Valley area, uglier than
a cows butt hole. Moved to Santa
Barbara that fall.

They made the giant tape cassettes
for mainframes:

Watched the first episode of The Queen’s Gambit.

I’m sure I’ll binge the rest this weekend.

Quote: Evenbob

That looks similar to the first computer that I used. The only difference is that one has a computer monitor and the one I started on did not have a monitor.

Quote: DRich

That looks similar to the first computer that I used. The only difference is that one has a computer monitor and the one I started on did not have a monitor.

I actually did a significant part of my graduate thesis on a computer with no monitor. God that was annoying.

Quote: Pacomartin

I actually did a significant part of my graduate thesis on a computer with no monitor. God that was annoying.

I don't remember it as being annoying, it was the only way it worked back then. I am sure some companies had monitors, but at that time I hadn't even seen one.

I think I have told this before, but the first game I wrote was a checkers game. For every move you had to go to the card punch machine and punch a card with the from coordinate and the to coordinate. You would take that card to the other room and insert it into the card reader. After each move the computer would print out a whole new checkers board reflecting the move.

Still really liking Silicon Valley. It's
much more clever and 'smart'
than Big Bang, and no annoying
laugh track. I bust out laughing
a couple times in every ep. The
writers really nail the quirkinesss
of the nerd class..