Which reminds me of how the German translation for JD Robb used Diskette (German for Floppy disk) for her books set in the future. I had such a good giggle about that back in the day when CDs where the thing to use still.
Then you find an old floppy disc with some awful old poetry on it, and the situation becomes even more dire. (Yes, I did. Yes, I felt like a dinosaur.)
Ripping your collection to your hd so you can listen to music while working without having the cd whirring, while still maintaining a cd collection as the best way to buy music?
I have heard Napoleon has been gifted a tyrant lizard from the Americas, Jack, and for all love it is far too a kingly a beast for that brute to ride.'
'Will you play your instrument, Stephen. I must inspect the dog watch soon and have no time for your tricerasaurs or ankylotops.'
“Madam, cease your hysterics: it is a common fallacy of the vulgar to claim that pterodactyls will entangle themselves in your hair, and I assure you there is not a word of truth in it.”
I'm nursing along a rather decrepit laptop almost solely because it DOES have an optical drive. I like my physical media and I don't like the yet-one-more-cord the external drive needs. Trying to keep the cats from chewing through cords and cables is a pain (but they're cute and cuddly so 🤷♀️).
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Which reminds me of how the German translation for JD Robb used Diskette (German for Floppy disk) for her books set in the future. I had such a good giggle about that back in the day when CDs where the thing to use still.
*Diminishes and heads into the west*
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an Allosaur'
'Will you play your instrument, Stephen. I must inspect the dog watch soon and have no time for your tricerasaurs or ankylotops.'
I mean, I am the preverbial fish in the barrel when it comes to this particular comedy gun but even so...