For those looking for my hero dad saving Ontario from pollution, it's Page 7 at: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

I'm getting the itch to buy more Wadjet games. But I'm really wanting them on a travellable touchscreen. Maybe a Steam Deck. I might jailbreak one of my older iPads to run a fast PC VM. Tablets are *underrated* for click games -- it's delightful playing wadjet games on an iPad. Shame too few play.

Flashback for my dad George Rejhon.
My dad helped remove acid rain & give clean air to Ontario. 1983 Acid Rain Accord & preps towards 1991 Clean Air Act.
(Citation: GPO-CRECB-1983-pt21.pdf on Govinfo)

You must follow me on Blue Sky just because I posted this very happy goldfish from the aquarium tank at Mandarin restaurant for my 52nd birthday. 🥳🎂

FastTrackTO Home of the 10-point plan to save Toronto's streetcar system.

Today FastTrackTO is officially launching and releasing our 10 point plan to modernize the Toronto Streetcar network. An iconic symbol of the city that could be fantastic with some achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city.

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I still remember my Great HDD Corruption of July 18th, 1994.
My oldest file dates, restored from 1.44MB floppy backups, have a date of 07/18/1994.
It was a 210 MB HDD, and a big computer crash caused SMARTDRV.EXE corruption that must've sprayed random data on my FAT.

Here are four pictures of my sweet dog, Luna, for your doomscroll antidote.

A dog picture a day keeps the doctor away. ❤️

I had no modem.
I learned 100% from books and magazines.
I read Jim Butterfield's books and "Mapping The Commodore 64" and I had a subscription to COMPUTE! Gazette.
By 1991, I typed-in SuperMon 64 from the magazined & then programmed a full video game in 100% 6502/6510 opcodes.

40 years ago on a Commodore 64, I typed this command to save my first BASIC program to floppy disk.

SAVE "COMIC PAGES", 8

40 years - February 1986 - February 2026
Happy 40th birthday to the start of my software development career. Thanks mom & dad for the C64!

Here are four pictures of my sweet dog, Luna, for your doomscroll antidote.

A dog picture a day keeps the doctor away. ❤️

The prize: One HALF a sharrow.

Mark with his dog Luna

A fritzy hair day with my Luna, in a warm locale away from Toronto

I made a few of my own TSRs in my teenage years.
Right at the time I finished my last 6502 machine language raster interrupt routines on a C64 and moved over to the PC.

I managed to complete the Old Skies game (Steam version). Very delightful.

Would have preferred to play click games on a tablet (Underrated! But understandable it's a hard sell to get heard in those non-gaming app stores).

Out of curiousity, is Old Skies savegames cloud syncable between PC / Mac / Switch? Just now deciding whether to purchase on Steam or Switch or both. I am mainly a PC gamer, but I love retro click games for flying / travel. I purchased all older Wadjet games on mobile, so I'm hungry for your newer.

A steampunk way of describing GPUs is calling them "math cannons".
That's what Charles Babbage would call them in the 19th century -- whether it's over a teraflop of FP64 or over a petaflop of FP4 -- of either an NVIDIA RTX 5090 or Radeon RX 9070 XT.

/3 And when I study automobile history I notice how we have a lot of hidden cost overruns involving road infrastructure. And realized most of my property tax is due to paying for the automobile infrastructure for cars. The refactoring of infrastructure can be maddening but makes sense. /3

When driving, one shakes fist at those empty suburb bike lanes. But when I bike I pay attention. Some underused & some well used. But Bloor? That's a definite need, not want. Despite under 50% width it still did more bikes than cars at certain hours on some days. More use turn it into a need.

Let's nuance - I drive more often than I bike. I own a 2011 Hyundai Elantra. However, I also have a bike share pass in Toronto. I noticed some weird observations. /1

Good afternoon Display Geeks at DisplayWeek!
Mark Rejhon is at DisplayWeek and open for new business, or just to talk shop.

As a born deaf man, my partner and I use AI transcription systems to caption.

For one on one chats I use local transcription now (on my device, burn only my own electricity), reliable online biz meetings (Teams) is hard coded to heavy duty cloud AI transcription.

It's an accessibility conundrum;

I wouldn't be surprised if the world's busiest subway stations fit the bill. The ones with a train every minute would potentially have some crazy throughput. Some tiny stations in China push 300K/day!

Scientists have made a breakthrough discovery when radiocarbon dating the pizza remnants in the strata under us, with the Pepperoni Explosion geological epoch.

Happy 51st birthday, to founder Mark Rejhon, from the UFO Area 51 Laboratory!

It seems like a good time to repeat how thankful I am that the entire Canadian federal election process has a campaign period that’s at least 36 days and no more than 50 days.

That’s it.

With strict spending limits.

And every single time, that ends up seeming long and expensive to me.

It's no Rocky Mountaineer, but...
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Lunar Total Eclipse in downtown Toronto, from Broadview Avenue near Riverdale Park East

Lunar Total Eclipse in downtown Toronto, from Broadview Avenue at Riverdale Park East

I was able to get the charge port in a broken iPad repaired by a cellphone shop.

Maybe that is an option for you? 🙏

Bamboo straws are great. Glossy bamboo (plant resin?) feels like plastic. Surprised how good they are!

I am impressed at the improved bikability of my seasonal home at Lake Chapala, Mexico (remote working). They recently built some great concrete protected bike lanes. Though I avoid high noon for obvious temperature reasons.