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An old "somebody called while you were out" IBM memo slip inviting you to VCF PNW 2026 in Tukwila, WA on May 2nd and May 3rd.  Details at vcfpnw.org.

An old "somebody called while you were out" IBM memo slip inviting you to VCF PNW 2026 in Tukwila, WA on May 2nd and May 3rd. Details at vcfpnw.org.

(Warning: Blatant spam about an event I care about)

Come join us for Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2026 in Tukwila, WA on May 2nd and May 3rd! Details at vcfpnw.org.

#retrocomputing
#seattle

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Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolisโ€ฆ looking at the windows of the houses.

It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them.
Yes. This exists. ๐Ÿ˜น

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Advertising flyer for Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2026

Advertising flyer for Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2026

VCF Pacific Northwest 2026 is just a month away!

vcfpnw.org

Join us May 2nd and 3rd in Tukwila, WA just south of Seattle near the SEATAC airport. We have 25+ exhibits, 3 talks, and you get to hang-out with some great people!

Sponsored by the Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum).

#retrocomputing

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"I don't say this lightly: when we escape this trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president."

Eric Swalwell

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Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in ๐Ÿฑ

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I lost many quarters to that game, literally going around in circles trying to pick up wrenches.

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Jesse Jackson was always present somewhere for many things, but the thing I remember him best for was reading Dr. Seuss on Saturday Night Live.

30+ years later it is amazing to watch - he never breaks character.

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Joust became a family favorite - it was simple enough where the kids could even play it.

I have to do some care and feeding on mine ... the electronics get cranky when they are not regularly exercised.

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Bonus: people who voted for Trump won't even get the joke.

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Unofficial VCF PNW 2026 logo

Unofficial VCF PNW 2026 logo

VCF PNW is back! We're looking for exhibitors and presentations. See more details at vcfpnw.org .

#retrocomputing

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I'm still trying to understand what Renee Nicole Good did to deserve what is effectively a summary execution.

Needless and senseless violence. That served no interest.

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8-bit Bolรฉro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
8-bit Bolรฉro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?) YouTube video by lftkryo

Take a break from the usual insanity for a different kind of insanity:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...

#retrocomputing #chiptunes

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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

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The Northern Light just north of Seattle .. my apologies for the overexposed cell phone picture.

The Northern Light just north of Seattle .. my apologies for the overexposed cell phone picture.

The Northern Lights were visible a few minutes ago just north of Seattle! #aurora

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List of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy characters - Wikipedia

I'm finally old enough to understand why Hotblack Desiato had to be dead for a year for tax reasons.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...)

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Trying to coax good output from a 40+ year old, low-end thermal printer. The thumbnail is bad - expand it to see the full image.

This started as a color JPG that was made grayscale, resized, dithered, then converted to the printer codes. (I wrote everything except the rescaling.)

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#pinball My kids got me this T-shirt. I feel seen..

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Wedge neighborhood in Minneapolis Live Cat Tour

Wedge neighborhood in Minneapolis Live Cat Tour

Meanwhile in Minneapolis:

"Show us your cats!"

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๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ, ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€. โœŠ๐Ÿป

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#nature #pinball My wife keeps telling me there is a pinball place right after the next mile. I think I've been duped.

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when do we stop blaming everything on โ€œgenerationsโ€ and accept that all kinds of people are born all the time... โ€œGen X are the new boomersโ€ โ€œMillennials are the new boomersโ€ โ€œGen Z are the new boomersโ€ this isnโ€™t useful. itโ€™s just ragebait taking advantage of intergenerational trauma.

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Gen X is about listening to Duran Duran while paying your bills online.

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Exhibitor, Demo/Speaker and Volunteer registration is OPEN (Visitors to the event do not need to register)

Event alert! If you are in Seattle Mar 22-23 then come hang out with us at the Interim Computer Festival! (sdf.org/icf/)

I'll be showing DOS networking with mTCP and helping people debug networking on their machines or get setup for the first time. It's an exhibit and a clinic!

#retrocomputing

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Parkay!

/me ducks and runs ...

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47 Years Later, The Palisades Disappeared Overnight ยป Mike Industries I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on o...

Regarding the Palisades fires ... this was a very good read about the fire danger history of the area.

mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

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Great point, but with all due respect a lot of us are hostages now .. this isn't voluntary, somebody locked us in.

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Rocks, or tilts? ;-0

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