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What's the Last Thing You Ate? (hot dog and Costco discussion, but that was a long time ago)
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Lobstergirl, el principe
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Jan 24, 2013 04:45PM
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Susan wrote: "A piece of angel food cake."The best kind of cake EVER! Great for parties, delicious for snacking.
John Thomas Draper (born 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch or Crunchman (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak. He is a legendary figure within the computer programming world.While Draper was driving around his Volkswagen Microbus to test a pirate radio transmitter he had built, he broadcast a telephone number to listeners as feedback to gauge his station's reception. A callback from a "Denny" (identified in the Discovery Channel documentary about Hacking as Denny Teresi) resulted in a meeting that caused him to blunder into the world of the phone phreaks. Teresi and a large percentage of the phone phreaks were blind. Learning of his electronic capability, they wanted him to build a multifrequency tone generator (the blue box) to gain easier entry into the AT&T system, which was controlled by tones. Then they would not have to use an organ and cassette recordings of tones to get free calls. At least one of the blind boys called Joybubbles had perfect pitch and had identified the exact frequencies. They informed him that a toy whistle that was, at the time, packaged in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal could emit a tone at precisely 2600 hertz—the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready and available to route a new call. This would effectively disconnect one end of the trunk, allowing the still connected side to enter an operator mode. Experimenting with this whistle inspired Draper to build blue boxes: electronic devices capable of reproducing other tones used by the phone company.
Susan wrote: "Hot chocolate from McDonalds."
How was it? I had some the other day too and it wasn't up to their usual snuff. It tasted like it had less chocolate syrup than normal.
How was it? I had some the other day too and it wasn't up to their usual snuff. It tasted like it had less chocolate syrup than normal.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Susan wrote: "Hot chocolate from McDonalds."How was it? I had some the other day too and it wasn't up to their usual snuff. It tasted like it had less chocolate syrup than normal."
It was good. Maybe a little light on the syrup but still hit the spot.








