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Did I read somewhere that the theft of the BIOS is somehow rooted in Microsoft doing something similar to a smaller company (QDOS?), making a few changes and selling it IBM for their PCs? The hardware part...I dunno. Never even saw a Compaq until about 1986, everything else in our middle school computer "lab" was so heavy they didn't bother to bolt it down.

Can't disagree with anything said. Nice to have a fully-contained episode, plus some side scenes that advance the larger story arc.

Technically, I think Jean would be Travis' beard. But since he is clearly subservient, he might also be her cuckold, kept man, boytoy, gofer, whatever. I always though that was the point. The are good at what they used to do--build large network infrastructures. It's all they are used to. They probably read about other computing concepts in college or from magazines. We can all add and subtract, but do you remember any calculus from high school? They're being asked to radically change how they think and approach their professions. Which for a lot of techies, is their life. BTW, one question about internet history. Someone told me recently that the internet was invented at UCLA (their alma mater). I always though the first package-switching network was beta-tested at UCLA and a few other uni's on the West Coast, but it was developed by BBN. And wasn't that also back in the 1970s?

Some fellow watchers are debating whether Joe is actually bisexual, or just hell-bent enough to get his way that he would...ahem...putt from the rough to turn away a venture capitalist that he didn't like. Either way, the character is just going 5 directions a minute. Some of this needs to be addressed soon, or they will fizzle out in a sea of weird memes and obscure tech talk.

John still doesn't know anything about personal computing. Remember when he asked Cameron the difference between a GOTO and a GOSUB/RETURN loop? Heck, I remember that from 8th grade. :-) And IIRC, Cameron's almost-tattoo was Black Flag.

George was a very accomplished man: latex salesman, porno actor Buck Naked, he even told us in The Race that he had finished the recent addition to the Guggenheim Museum. Not to mention marine biologist. :-)

The Shoes episode is on tonight. "Get a good look, Costanza?" BTW, the girl was/is Denise Richards.

There's difference between "owns" and "mortgaged to." "Owns" = has title to/legal ownership of. Much like having the Deed to real estate or to an airplane hull. "Mortgaged to" = pledged a security interest in said property for consideration. And just the same as the bank holding the mortgage to your home, banks and lenders cannot tell you to replace the leaking faucet in the kitchen any more than a bank holding a perfected marine mortgage can tell you where to go fishing. You don't pay = you default on your loan agreement, and the mortgagee can exercise their security interest when and only when that happens. Do you walk around telling people you own your home, or do you tell them Wells Fargo Bank owns it? I don't get the beef with Josh Harris? That he's using DC to get some extra money for the boat? Of course he is. They ALL are.

1. Disco does not own the Corneila Marie. 2. Trident Seafoods does not own the Cornelia Marie. 3. Cornelia Devlin no longer has an ownership interest in the vessel. Here we go: 1. The CM is owned by F/V/ Cornelia Marie, LLC, a Washington corporation https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/ram/daily/cratfcvp.csv 2. The members of that corporation are Joshua Harris and Phil Harris Enterpises, Inc., a Washington corporation http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602258633 3. The owners of that corporation are Joshua Harris and Jacob Harris http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=601295042 4. Joshua Harris personally owns at least 2 crab rationalization quota permits.

We used to tear off the guide holes in the dot-matrix printer paper and use them for spitballs. :-)

We had to study BASIC in 8th grade (1983) on Commodore 64s. We had a PC at home (think it might have been an Acer) that ran WordPerfect Someone had a HUGE game written in BASIC called B-52, a totally command driven game where you guided a B-52 over Russian and nuked various cities. over 60,000 lines of for/next loops, Gosubs, Data sets, and more Goto commands than a COMDEX. BTW...anyone keeping track of the songs featured during the show? This week I distinctly heard Boz Scaggs and Bad Brains. Last week I definitely heard The Clash, and maybe The Human League (???)

The unfulfilled sexual tension between coworkers has been done before, I'm thinking of The X Files specifically.

Hehe. That's the introduction to the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show. IIRC, the lyrics run: Overture, curtains, lights This is it, the night of nights No more rehearsing and nursing apart We know every part by heart. Overture, curtains, lights This is it, the height of heights And oh what heights we'll hit On with the show this is it. Sorry, couldn't resist And remember the pez dispenser in The Pez Dispenser was Tweety? :-)

Yes, it was. All the Who intro songs have been mangled by CBS. By the end of CSINY, "Baba O'Reilly" was edited down to "Out here in the fields/I fight for my meals/I get my back into my livin'." So were the others. Imagine someone not knowing The Who reading what the full lyrics or "Won't Get Fooled Again," or that "Who Are You" was about Pete Townsend waking up drunk after a bender trying to sell the group's recording rights.

I meant watching the show. But of course there will now be an endless stream of pickup lines centered around "hard" drives, CAPS LOCKS, trojans, and Fire-foxy. ;-)

Gonna try this with a friend for the first time tomorrow. Might be interesting.

The Pitch is on tonight. This one always struck me as apt for most TV shows. Russell Dalrymple: Why would someone watch a show about nothing. George: Because it's on TV!!! {long pause] Russell: Not yet. ...and after Kramer throws up on Susan: Jerry: Vomiting is not a deal-breaker. :-)

Disease and illness was always hilarious on the show. Bubble Boy, Jerry trying his act for a friend in the hospital, George's heart attack, George going to the fortune teller and getting paranoid. "Lupus!! Is it lupus?!?" And the "white spot" in The Pilot episodes, Kramer and Mickey having pretend illnesses for doctors in training (one of who was Daniel Dae Kim) and getting gonorrhea from a tractor. Frank's proctologist "The Assman." And...of course...Dr. Victor Raider Wexler. Tidbit: Victoria was played by Michelle Pfeiffer's sister, Deedee.

George: "My boys can swim!" [in The Fix-Up]

Without going into detail, he was ferrying nonessential crew of the Alaska Mist to a USCG cutter. During the "capture" of the small tender boat, a large surge caused him to hit his head several times against the steering console. He was airlifted to Anchorage, then Seattle.

By the looks, both Junior and Elliott are out for snow crab season. Elliott still seems to know (and enjoy) his TV exposure, right down to the last minute. His denial is not uncommon among addicts, but it just seemed quite staged to me. Disco is right there up to the rehab door. You know they lobbied to get inside. In the pregame show last week, Keith said they avoided a big ADFG fine by self-reporting, which was only briefly brought out in the episode. Monty gets too much shit from his brother, good to see him tell his brother to eff off and use his own fishing knowledge. Pretty lucky, since Montgomery has been fined multiple times for similar offenses. tinkerbell, he doesn't even deserve the effort to capitalize his name. The ending in memory of PO Obendorf was apt. A reminder that serving, and sometimes making the ultimate sacrifice, for one's country takes many different shapes and tasks. Always chokes me up.

Action-packed is certainly an understatement. I've on passively watched the first two seasons, but they've converted me. Hope we see enough Henry as this whole thing unfolds. Every time LDP gets a little philosophical, I harken back to his role as Billy the Kid's henchman Chavez in the Young Guns films.

FYI. I'm going to try and archive the TWoP DC thread. eta: archived...now trying to figure out where and how to make it accessible...

@gryphon, I don't know details about Alaska, but where I live, any motorized mode of transport requires some sort of license, be they cars, semi trucks, boats, etc. Jake H.'s mandatory testing is probably from some probation order. Since Elliott has not been convicted of DWI/OWI, I doubt they could require him to test at sea. But if he is convicted of operating a vessel while drunk/high, he would almost certainly lose his license to captain, and I doubt the ADFG would give him a fishing permit for anything other than a rowboat. Plus I sense a bit of a "Code." You don't get messed up on a trip because it's making an already dangerous situation even worse. I recall some of those rants Phil had for both his boys. I also remember his line, "Now you know why lions eat their young." :-)

In the discussion on this week's epi, some have wondered if Disco is putting their film crews at risk by being on Elliott Neese's vessel. I have long wondered if their ultimate fantasy is to witness, firsthand, a vessel sinking and a crewman perishing. Captains over the years have said they helped to retrieve bodies from the water, but TDC never captured on film. They certainly have a penchant for the morbid, from the blanket coverage of Phil's passing to USCG hoists to pon pon calls over the wideband. Obviously such a situation would put them in a position of unimaginable ratings, but also unfathomable liabilities--legal and reputation-wise. I learned recently that the interview Disco aired a few years ago with Cache Seele, lone survivor of the Big Valley sinking in Season 1, was purchased by TDC from another company. Cache and a friend Andrew Marss were working crew on the boat, but were also compiling experiences of their own for a documentary on crab fishing. Marss was among the departed that day. Seele was not to happy about seeing in interview so many years later. But he has since moved on with his writing career. They must give direction before leaving harbor about emergencies and what they, as they immediately become "extra baggage" in these scenarios. WOuld they continue filming? Would Disco air it, even in a highly edited form? Just wondering out loud.