Re: So are you a hacker?

PerfectReign wrote:
The Daring Dufas turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:


We just want to learn. We're not stupid. We want to create.
Wonderful, me and my brother have been messing with
digital computers since 1965 and still don't know
everything, dangit! To us, old school is slide rules
and punch cards. Hey, it got us to the Moon.

You and monster went to the moon?

dude!

I meant we as in "mankind" but many of
my contemporaries made it to the Moon
by other means. It involved inhaling
certain kinds of smoke and ingesting
various strange and wonderful chemicals.

TDD
.

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