I think you are right. I keep finding different ways they did it, so sounds like the 1800s was a busy period in the development of mirror technology!

Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.

Still better than the Gwyneth Paltrow Oreos. Would not recommend.

I loved having hundreds of c64 games with no manuals. So with this one, we thought you needed to fly the plane out the only visible door in the hangar, which was the one the pilot comes in through, and it was barely bigger than the plane. Seemed impossible to line up. Not like you could look things up back then, and if you were lucky enough to know some friends who played it, they’d often have the same issue. Can’t get out of the bloody hangar. Then one day, one of my brothers puts his feet up on the computer desk and kicks the F7 key on the bottom right of the keyboard while I’m flying the plane around the hangar, and the wall opens up. Well, shit. From there, it was pretty fun to make the Zaxxon-like run to the Kremlin and then pick it apart with your RPGs. Lots of good memories of this one.

Ah, Jaffa jokes

Once Bitten, Joe vs the Volcano, and Mortal Kombat are all way better movies than they should have been.

I’d watch it for the Europe-heavy soundtrack alone, but the film is a damned masterpiece.

Square hogs! Yeah, it’s fair to say I loved this one from the start.

Looks like an ice lolly

You can see the text on the front of them for what they are for. Blue are regular passports for casual travel. Red are diplomatic passports for high ranking officials. Green are special passports for senators, MPs or government workers on official business. White temporary passports are usually issued abroad where a Canadian citizen has an urgent requirement to travel but doesn’t have a passport for whatever reason.

Yeah, we found a way to bypass the parental lock on our old C-Band satellite system. The glory days.

Yeah, you need a new cartridge for yours.

It’s just a box.

I too had a barely year old AMD CPU go pop in an ASRock motherboard about 15 years ago. Bought the same CPU again and stuck it in an ASUS board and it is still running today. I know they have a better reputation these days, but this is the kind of thing that just shouldn’t happen.

Yes.

According to everything I have seen and read on the matter, most kids seemed to have a shit time with online schooling during COVID. Too easy to be distracted, frequent technical problems, no hands on activities or labs, no socialisation, no arts programs, no physical education, terrible support for kids who had learning problems or who otherwise required customised education plans, and the much larger class sizes meant an overall poorer quality of education.

For many, it was an unmitigated disaster, and most kids are much happier to be back at school in person. A handful loved it though. My daughter was one, though she also is very happy to have music classes again, so even she prefers being back in school.

Our conservative provincial government liked the cost savings though, so they tried to introduce an online course requirement to get your high school diploma, but due to popular demand, they had to include an opt out option. Since the opt out was so popular, they are now making it harder to access by requiring that you fill out a form for it available only by contacting the school guidance office.

Let’s face it, online education is not popular because it sucks unless your program only requires a lecture, you are very motivated to learn and study, you don’t need or want to discuss anything complicated with profs or peers, you have no learning or hearing disabilities, and you prefer to avoid people. It is great for work you already know how to do, which is the reason my daughter loved it, and why I like working from home. But default online education? Correspondence school has long been a thing, so if that’s you, fill your boots. It seems most would rather pass on it.

Range on both is over 500km. They’re pretty much the only EVs that have that much range. But the fit and finish on the Ioniq makes it a luxury car by comparison. And they don’t have that Musky smell about them.

It’s one of the most expensive in Canada. 60K for a RWD base Model 3. You can get an AWD Ioniq for that, and should, since Hyundai can actually build a car.

Can’t say that I know, but I shall be avenged.

Gross. Love it. Bream Theater is interesting too though.