The internet was well established before the mobile web really took off. It looked different (most of us would say better), but it was already a mature part of everyday life. The dot-com “bubble” around Y2K predates the iPhone by years.
Yep. I think this is the standard path for parents today. Kids even get to keep some Angry Birds and PBS Kids cartoon from their formative iPad years.
I think it will be more like the Aztec, but less practical.
Or the 1880s.
The 93 Ranger had a bigger cargo bed than most large pickups today, too.
I remember they were side by side, but I don’t remember which one I gravitated toward first: It was either Pong or Skeet (with the light gun) for me.
Kindness isn’t patronizing. Just offer to help because you care for Stevie and your neighbor. No need to make it a debt (or worse, make her “work it off”), which would redefine your relationship as employer/employee. Just friends doing what friends do.
Most liquors, but gin and tequila in particular.
It’s a poem by Stephen Crane, but so short I’m often reminded of it in full:
It sounds nihilistic, but it’s somehow calming whenever I start to feel like I’ve been wronged or I’m owed a break of some sort.