tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post115697104914290461..comments2024-02-20T17:40:21.618-05:00Comments on jeremy freese's weblog: it also turns out i've been speaking prose all this timejeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1157037049757813352006-08-31T11:10:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:10:00.000-04:00More importantly, even if it were technically poss...More importantly, even if it were technically possible to recompile some form of Stata to run on a VIC-20, factors beyond even the 3,600x CPU speed difference would ensure you wouldn't want to. The past is indeed another country.<BR/><BR/>(Though I've tried to keep my mother from recycling my old Atari 800 so I can play M.U.L.E. and Seven Cities of Gold every once in a while.)Tom Bozzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853926747746938925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1156981822515452262006-08-30T19:50:00.000-04:002006-08-30T19:50:00.000-04:00man, i don't know why you're so worried about proc...man, i don't know why you're so worried about procrastinating...think about it like this: i'm sure you procrastinated when you had your first computer and evidently did just fine (you're a tenured professor), but now with the speed of your new machine you can put things off 3,599 times longer than before! think of the possibilities! ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1156975526863443882006-08-30T18:05:00.000-04:002006-08-30T18:05:00.000-04:00Jeremy Freese, Superprocrastinator! That sounds l...Jeremy Freese, Superprocrastinator! That sounds like a pretty good superhero identity, actually. You could go around saving people when you should be working.<BR/><BR/>I suppose it should be Superrationaliser, but that doesn't sound as cool, and rationalising is just part of the procrastination process, anyway.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09150532491859766021noreply@blogger.com