Lisa simpson in front of a glass case of THE BOARD OF CANADA

Staying indoors today (marijuana berzerker day) for my safety. Suggest you do the same.

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pondering technology

A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing.

A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. Even the white surround near the USB ports is yellowed in this almost pinky yellowing.

A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. This view shows the caps lock, shift and ctrl/option keys. The clear part of the keyboard has survived, but the white plastic inside is just like a pumpkin.

A photo of an extremely yellowed Apple keyboard. The background and keys should be white with greyed text. Instead it's yellowed and the text is a lightish green colour. There's a white Apple notepad on white paper next to it to show the extreme yellowing. This view shows the nav cluster and really shows how the greyed text too has faded.

As yellowed a piece of mac gear as I've ever owned.

I suspect some kind of wacky chemical exposure in the environment it was used in.

system six bits

Checking out four AT power supplies and maybe building a Socket 7 system. 300th video! Woo! Last year at MIT Swapfest, I bought a couple of $20 AT format computers. They were really gross and needed some retrobrighting. Retrobrighting season is finally here in New England, so I got the front...

Still feeling bad about this week's events, so not 100% sure that I'll be streaming Saturday at noon. If I do, I'll be checking out some AT PSUs and building an AT Socket 7 computer. One power supply has the biggest Rifa ever. Gonna power it up without replacing. youtube.com/live/GvV8S0x...

does magnet wire work that small?

For a while in the '90s, every cartoon character looked like this

Parapa the Rapper doing Linked In Park "One thing I don't know why it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

A little bit of MIDI this morning. ☀
💾🔊🎶

Many years ago, there was a junk shop ran by a little old lady who carried one of these books around in a death grip. Any time you tried to buy something, she'd say that she could find the value and wouldn't sell because she needed to find out the value. 🧵

“lmao i’m not in a cult, bro, I’ve just got all these pics saved of my favorite politician as Jesus because it offends the libs! lol they hate my many private AI photos of him as a jacked god. I’ve also got his name on most of my clothes and my car and in every room of my house”

Some Sicko posted this.
Not to nit-pick, but shouldn’t it read, “Yes … Hi-Diddly-Ha-Ha-Ha … YES!”

@thesimpsonsonfox.bsky.social

Recapping and announcing giveaway of the Mac POOci (Macintosh IIci) for celebrating 2048 subscribers YouTube video by BigBadBench

The Macintosh POOci has cleaned up pretty nicely. Aside from the startup circuit area, the logic board looks good. On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to recap the board and PSU and announce its giveaway. (We might need to do a little work on the cache card) youtube.com/live/alMlDvB...

Friends!! INIT HELLO has opened registration for year 2! Join the fun June 19-21 in Hunt Valley!

init-hello.org

success! 😆

You can just do things.

I was tipped off to someone on a "well-known" forum stating lies about my associations.
I made an account there; apparently registration is fixed. How long has it been? 3 years?

Anyway, I addressed the kind person's statements. With receipts.

If you're going to step to, you better be "armed".

An Apple Macintosh IIx with AppleColor High-Resolution RGB monitor sitting next to it on a desk. There's an extended keyboard and a mouse in front and the display and Macintosh II have custom stands.

Apple Macintosh IIx with AppleColor High-Resolution RGB monitor

#macintosh #macintoshII #rgb #crt
#itsactuallyastealthiifx

I was hoping to do a Mac IIci giveaway, but mice had other ideas. #vintagemac #vintagecomputing YouTube video by BigBadBench

I picked up this Macintosh IIci to do a giveaway for hitting 2048 subscribers. But when we opened it, it was mouse-bombed. YT short showing the mess and beginning of cleanup: youtube.com/shorts/ShWve...

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

Release v4.0.0 · polpo/picogus New features/changes Sound Blaster 16 SB mode now emulates a Sound Blaster 16. I had a somewhat-working implementation of the SB16 DSP in late 2024 but was discouraged by poor compatibility in Wind...

#PicoGUS can now emulate Sound Blaster 16 with the newly released firmware v4.0.0! Other changes include CD-ROM speed and reliability improvements, GUS mode improvements, and more. Check the full changelog and download the release at github.com/polpo/picogu...

oh cool, the scumbag CEO of stickermule is using the company's (former) customer list to spam his political junk

the unsubscribe link even goes to a stickermule\.com URL

just a reminder that stickermule sucks

my twin sons galeb and caleb sent me this is this ai?

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!"

NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

i suspect @thoughtspooling.bsky.social might know

Everyone activate emergency discourse topics: mine is that I think the two guys from ABBA have definitely seen each other naked