My last two offices had showers. No communal room, but the thing I remember most about the last one is the hot water being pumped from the furnaces of hell itself. It took so long go get there, and was so hot once it did I can't think of any other explanation.

Charged. Not convicted. He didn't get bail, so he's in jail waiting for trial.

I once caught gay from a used marijuana needle. Never again. Took a lot of prayer and fasting to make that go away. Ban it. Ban it all!

(/s, of course. Shouldn't be necessary but this is the internet....)

I'd hate to be the first human.. in the original game there are dead people all over the place and the evil humans you do see are posessed.

Yup. Trans or not a girl should be allowed to wear a suit or a dress. So should a boy. As long as it qualifies as "formal" for either group it ought to qualify for the other.

Oldest man. IIRC the oldest woman is a few years older.

And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession?

Probably a random grad student. They were just coming out of the "sexual revolution" of the 60s at that point. It'd be a lot weirder ten years earlier or ten years later.

That a similar thing did happen ten years earlier is the weird part, I think.

Carousels came later :P

Ironically, it's a very old term for a powerpoint presentation. Presentations used to be done with actual photographic slides in a projector. They were stored in a deck of slides.

I only know this from Mad Men.

It's an older meme, but it checks out.

They're not "write-protected", they're literally a write-once medium. The name "burner" isn't a metaphore, that's actually what they do.

Naming things is one of the two hardest problems in computer science. The other one is cache coherency and off by one errors.