A bit of a latter-day throwback to the days when you could only take the phone as far as the cord reached! One of the exciting things in college was going to Radio Shack and getting a 50-foot phone cord.

Thanks! It is actually a pretty good chunk of lifetime, especially compared to other Ventures I've gotten interested in. And I plan to continue being here for as many years as this show keeps running.

Thank you! Barring anything unforeseen happening to Hive itself, I definitely plan to be here for the 10th as well!

Thank you! You are exactly right, of course. Whenever there is money involved in something there is a large number of human beings that start behaving badly. As I never really counted on Hive to provide

I'm certain my parents did the best with the knowledge they had and what they had available to them! They mostly live through the hardship of World War II in Europe and were philosophically and politically

There was definitely a time in my younger years where I bore a bit of a grudge against my parents, and especially against my mom but I am long past that. As you said, they went through their own periods

We were quite fortunate to move into a place that had a lot of gardening space around. Since then — and especially as a result of the Covid lockdowns — we have considerably expanded our space for growing

It is definitely an Affliction of sorts! What mostly seems to keep me stuck in places my remarkable talent for "needing to clean my desk so I can do my work," as a result of which my workspace

Makes me very happy to hear that Ragnarok is still an ongoing thing... I was checking all the things I have been intersted in at the end of the year and was sad to start thinking about Ragnarok as "yet

Happy 9th Hiveversary... and well done on creating yourself the most consistent contributor to the community! Your persistence is pretty much God level! I am yet to fully comprehend why it is so hard to

Our local PUD has just been going off the rails in recent years, allegedly because they have a lot of "infrastructure updates" to fund. Our most recent power bill was $333.31; granted, it includes

You can file me under "Too Old For This" but the highest level effect of it all is that actual content tends to take a back seat to "content that fits the most people's preferences,"

Typos? That's definitely an Illuminati plot! So is spellcheck! Think about it: red underlining on black lettering on a white page! Dude! And yeah, wanting proof or evidence just means you're part of the

Yes, me too!

...no longer relevant. That's really the key, isn't it? It's not that it's worthless, or that it's not useful; it's simply not relevant to how life works in 2026. As much as anything, I have been learning

That's pretty much where we ended up... the kid mostly don't care about stuff because their generation "collects" experiences, not objects. So there's a lot of craigslist, eBay and Facebook

I hear you! We haven't had "spare change" since before the kids went to college, and that was almost 20 years ago... and even then building any sort of balance was a challenge, and only effective

I just find it all very overwhelming, perhaps because we have created a world in which we are expected to be connected at all times... the "system" does not allow for escapes; we're always "on

The ones we're getting around here are "alert" texts from the fraud department of our banks, with the genuine number spoofed as the sender. Looks JUST like the real thing. Then some verbiage

It just gets sneakier and sneakier. Sometimes I almost miss the days when all we had to face were Nigerian princes wanting to send us $35 million... Almost...