My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel’s original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.

https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207

People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.

But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.

Maybe it’s your job to avoid patronizing places that don’t pay their employees enough though?

USB-C

Gonna have to disagree with you there. Try using a USB-C data cable to charge a device. Now try figuring out which cable out of five is the charge cable.

Hasn’t quite worked out yet. I still need to find a job (but I have interviews lined up) We came over a little early because we were worried that when the deportation start, everyone who can grab the first plane they came out of the US. We might never get out otherwise.

I keep telling people, we can only fly 30 meters at a time.

Plus, Wonder Woman can fly and she has an invisible jet.

Not exactly.

Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.