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Cake day: August 15th, 2025

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  • Probably, as pictured.
    I miss them dearly.
    (However inappropriately they were later named.)

    But also TIL about the word wiki/Parataxis:

    Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, “act of placing side by side”; from παρα, para “beside” + τάξις, táxis “arrangement”) is a literary technique in writing or speaking that favors short, simple sentences without conjunctions, or sentences coordinated without the use of subordinating conjunctions.















  • Lol, I too was amazed at about that age how the game just let you do it, anything you wanted, amazing!
    (Unlike you my last custom level was in UnrealEd … the original. Well, and a few Blender visualisations.)

    I member doing a bunch of those open bridges in a row (actually two rows making it an overall track) & then trying for best time with that formula (it was a bit tricky to not jump too far & miss the next bridge).

    After I had enough I would go for a relaxing drive in Test Drive 3 (it had chickens, trains, snow, etc).

    Good times.


  • The Fish Cannon 2000 is a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, water-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires fish caliber fish at an extremely high rate (typically 6,000 rounds per minute). The FC2k and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United Fish States military fixed-wing aircraft for over forty years, as of the turn of century.

    Each of the cannon’s six barrels fires once in turn during each revolution of the barrel cluster. The multiple barrels provide both a very high rate of fire—around 100 fish per second—and contribute to prolonged weapon life by minimizing barrel erosion and heat generation. The average time between jams or failures is in excess of 10,000 fish, making it an extremely reliable weapon.