Comments on: The only way to win is to not play http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/04/27/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/ Searching for the question to the answer of 42. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mel B. http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/04/27/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/#comment-20799 Mel B. Sat, 03 May 2008 03:39:10 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/04/27/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/#comment-20799 Yeah, I spent some time ridiculing things, like the speaker (it's there in one shot, but gone after). Heather pointed out that schools at that time were very unlikely to be networked, and certainly not accessible from the outside. Maybe that's just my school being backward, though. I like the fact that he's somehow dialing to supposedly California, but lives in Seattle, and aren't there going to be some long distance charges involved? Isn't he going to get in trouble with his parents? Yet he somehow accidentally gets into NORAD, which is in Colorado, right? Then when he gets taken to NORAD the first time, he's taken in a car. Did we miss the whole having to fly? Because I can guarantee you he didn't get quickly from Seattle to Colorado in a car. Lots of little things. But thoroughly enjoyable. Modem is great! The big floppy disks, also great! Our family's first computer had the smaller floppy disks. Even our computer wasn't *that* old. Yeah, I spent some time ridiculing things, like the speaker (it’s there in one shot, but gone after). Heather pointed out that schools at that time were very unlikely to be networked, and certainly not accessible from the outside. Maybe that’s just my school being backward, though.

I like the fact that he’s somehow dialing to supposedly California, but lives in Seattle, and aren’t there going to be some long distance charges involved? Isn’t he going to get in trouble with his parents? Yet he somehow accidentally gets into NORAD, which is in Colorado, right?
Then when he gets taken to NORAD the first time, he’s taken in a car. Did we miss the whole having to fly? Because I can guarantee you he didn’t get quickly from Seattle to Colorado in a car.
Lots of little things.

But thoroughly enjoyable. Modem is great! The big floppy disks, also great! Our family’s first computer had the smaller floppy disks. Even our computer wasn’t *that* old.

]]> By: Matthew http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/04/27/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/#comment-20777 Matthew Thu, 01 May 2008 13:04:23 +0000 http://sodsbrood.com/dreams/2008/04/27/the-only-way-to-win-is-to-not-play/#comment-20777 Love that movie! I laugh every time I see Broderick put that rotary phone handset on a 1980's modem...and then proceed to dial up NORAD. It's so laughably unbelievable! But for the day, that movie was cutting edge. Love that movie! I laugh every time I see Broderick put that rotary phone handset on a 1980’s modem…and then proceed to dial up NORAD. It’s so laughably unbelievable! But for the day, that movie was cutting edge.

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