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The city of Chicago has a good Apr 1 gag this year:
For those who don't know, downtown Chicago has a 3 dimensional street grid. There is a whole second set of streets below the surface-level grid. GPS does not work underground, and frankly, the lower level can be confusing to navigate, as it's dark, visibility is poor, and you really have to know the layout in order to efficiently navigate it.
Lower Wacker Drive is one of the major streets in the system (it is actually 3 levels deep) and is notoriously weird because it makes a 90° turn in the middle, so you can go North, South, East and West all on the same street.
I had a Compaq portable, circa 84/85. Replaced one of the 5.25" drives with a 10mb HD that took the entire full height bay. Added a 640KB memory expansion card that spanned the width of the computer and was covered in memory chips. I also added an EGA card that gave me 16 colors (on an external monitor.) I think the built in was HGA.
Mine had 2 full size 5.25" drives, so this one may be newer or modified.
As has long been observed, the easiest people for the devil to possess are precisely those who are least aware of their capacity for doing evil--shallow people who walk around with the unexamined assumption that they are "the good guys." Their moral blind spot combines with their ordinary vanity and ego, making them easy instruments for doing the devil's work.
-John Leake
In 1978, Soviet defector Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave an address at Harvard in which he warned that the shallowness of American culture put the nation in danger of losing its way and its freedom.
I've done similar (indoors) to get 240v to power a temporary FM transmitter at the studio after the building which housed the main transmitter fell down.
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