Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.
In 1990 I was running a very tiny Unix clone at home (Coherent on a 286 PC w/ 1 meg ram) and… I don’t remember if I couldn’t get a standard reader to compile on that or what the problem was, but anyways - I wrote an email/usenet reader for my own use.
33 years later, I’m still using it to read my email every day.
Also, I think I’ve had my pasta strainer since the 90s.
Late 90s Macedonian flick “Goodbye, 20th Century”.
Santa scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWqVaI_gfk
The Suns (E4000s) want a 12A circuit. The SGI wants 2 x 16A + 14A for the disk arrays. (Not that either draws nearly that much, of course.)
In 2009 I bought a lot of 10 late 90s Sun servers (1997 machines upgraded a few years later with better CPUs) for $300. Original list price about $2.5 million. After fixing a few problems and swapping parts to max out half the machines, I kept a few as my compute servers, and traded the rest for SGIs. An Onyx for the museum, and a small (one 6’ rack) Origin-2000 for myself.
Jellyfish. A bit… enh?
Physical. Paper or fiche!
I think leftists ranting about not voting for Biden in the general election at the moment are just blowing off steam, and when election day comes, everyone on the left will remember 2016 and vote blue.
Most superhero movies should just be roller coasters. Or maybe one roller coaster for Marvel, and one for DC, and you get a different hat depending on the exact hero.
hachyderm. Medium-big?
Retrocomputing, film & art crowds.
I’ve been posting a lot of silent film stuff recently.
Melt-Banana at the Knitting Factory, 2007. Melt-Banana is my favorite band in the world, and this isn’t the best audio, but it REALLY captures the feel of the live performance. (I was at this show. I’m the guy with dreads in the front row directly in front of the cameraman.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00XVt4PeRuQ
Nina Hagen, 1985. Favorite performance by my favorite singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESo38-Kcwno
Aretha Franklin, Amsterdam 1968:
Primarily mastodon. Really enjoying that.
Facebook for relatives & friends from the real world.
Has a favorite Bauhaus professor.
Oddly enough, the laptop I’m sitting in front of has firewire. (And linux sees it! Might actually work…)
And… the 1980 adaption of Lathe of Heaven is fantastic. (There’s also a remake I refuse to acknowledge.)
Are there any VHS decks that will allow digital transfer without writing a DVD?
Edit: Found it! There are MiniDV / SVHS combo decks with digital out via firewire. Pricey though.
This was a long time ago, so I don’t remember the exact details, but…
A couple went as a pair of penguins. And they had a half-dozen friends dress up as National Geographic photographers, following them around.
(Oh, this was probably when March of the Penguins had just been released.)
I’ve got about 50 books “saved for later” on amazon. I expect to have the spare cash to buy them all sometime soon.
An email of all html is an unwanted email 99% of the time. Occasionally, I save it, and open in lynx. (When a web site emails a security code.)
Attachments are more of a hassle, because I frequently need those. Save to a temp file, “munpack file”, examine extracted files.