Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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$LAYYYTER
Mike Driver
hello vonnie
Keni
trying on a metaphor
Show & Tell
i don't do bad sauce passes
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
taylor price
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
PR's Tumblrdome
Origami Around
Discoholic 🪩
Janaina Medeiros
Jules of Nature
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Kaledo Art
occasionally subtle
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@jrronimo
I'll never use thingamajig again, I like these other ones better.
Dingetjie in Afrikaans
You're not just allowed but encouraged to have multiple words to use for such things. Some personal favorites of mine are "wossname", "whojamaflip", and "habenfluger".
I had a friend, @kabooki, who was really more of a friend of a friend. But we had our own light friendship over the years. We'd chat over AIM on occasion, but that was about it. I think I went to her & her husband's place once, but I don't remember why.
One time, when I was in my third year of college, there was some Beatles memorabilia she was interested in that was on eBay. As an excuse to buy it for her we declared that was it was in honor of Galileo being sent to the Inquisition Day; something like that. I no longer recall the item anymore (it may have been a Beatles themed stuffed bear?), nor sadly do I even have records of the purchase, but it was a fun joke.
I've never been especially into The Beatles, but @Kabooki was the biggest Beatles fan that I knew personally. She'll always come to mind when there's Beatles news, so yesterday's release of their final song, Now And Then, jumped out at me. The piece has wormed its way into my ear pretty heavily since my first listen. There's something about the history of the song and its tone that really strikes me.
I heard a few years ago that she had passed away a few years before that.
The song itself is a lovely melancholy piece and I really think she would have liked it. I will always remember her when it comes on; I just wish she had the chance to hear it too.
This. Is my pride and joy. A gift for my dad, who played Zork with me when I was a kid, and with his dad when he was a kid. I designed this pattern myself and had a great time puzzling out how to hide the glow in the dark letters!
Pattern: “West of House” by me Fabric: 2x1 on 18ct Blue-Grey Aida Started: 11/27/2021 Finished: 12/25/2021
Want to see the worst keyboard I've made? No?
Too bad!
Here's the Hair Keyboard. I built this in 2020. It's basically just a relatively standard QWERTY membrane-dome keyboard, but it's got a very unique look, thanks to a lot of time spent with glue and fake fur from a hobby store. It took a LONG time to comb this thing into usability, and I cannot describe how it feels to type on.
An overall picture:
Some horrible pre-combing shots:
Bad Hair (Keyboard) day:
Fun fact: Posting this is causing my music to skip. I think my computer can't handle even the image of the Hair Keyboard.
This Used to Be Rock Island
1614 15th Street (between Wazee and Wynkoop)
Used to Be: Iconic seedy downtown nightlife landmark was known for raves, cage dancing … and a Toast Bar (mmm, peanut butter and cinammon). Opening in 1986 during the era of popular, massive 3.2 dance haunts like Thirsty’s and After the Gold Rush, Rock Island was the true alternative hangout. Located in a dirty part of downtown that was once considered a real walk on the wild side, Rock Island offered up acts like Skinny Puppy, My Chemical Romance and bona-fide DJs who did not simply spin Journey or REO Speedwagon. A real home for hip hop, industrial and goth. Today, you might only feel the Rock Island vibe from a walk down “puke alley,” where many various bodily fluids were exchanged or extracted. Rock Island closed in 2006 and although a reopening was announced the next year, it never happened. Rock Island always occupied the main and lower levels, with offices lining the top floors (surely none of which ever operated during the evening hours).
Is: An innocuous-looking full office building with antithetical-sounding occupants such as Shareholder Representative Services and Malenke | Barnhart, which is responsible for the latest generation of Dex Yellow Pages … Ironic given that many of us could rarely find our way home after a night at Rock Island.
I miss Rock Island so much. I first went with a few friends on a Sunday night sometime in 2001 or 2002 or so. I went pretty regularly by myself after that; it was a good way to go somewhere and be alone and dance. I'd stay out until closing and be home by 2:30-3:00 a.m., then get up for classes or work.
I was too shy to ever talk to anyone or try to make any friends. But in not knowing anyone I found an armor: It was okay to just listen to music and have a beer and dance and watch whatever old movie they were projecting on the stage. Of course I *wanted* someone to talk to me, but that's not really how these things work.
To this day I am as excited to hear Sting's "Desert Rose" as I am Dead Can Dance's "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" as I am Covenant's "We Stand Alone" as I am Project Pitchfork's "Steelrose" as I am Duarn Duran's "The Chauffeur."
I adopted it as my place to be, and I miss it very much.
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I don't remember if I went back to Rock Island when I moved back to Colorado mid-2006, but I suspect I always meant to and never did.
This is super exciting! We still don't have any fucking idea of where the Basque language came from, though 😁
Oh hey, it me.
In an experiment testing how well we can grow crops in space, scientists have managed to harvest 10 crops, including tomatoes, peas, and rye, from soil that mimics the conditions on Mars.
thank goodness for science that caters to my extremely specific interests.
dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?
LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!
Seeing really great high quality pictures of Mars is alwyas, always great. I don't know how much utility this will have for most people, but if you have a Nintendo 3DS, I made 3 stereoscopic pictures of SPAAACE!! stuff that you can look at in 3D without glasses! The first one is a Mars Rover shot in color! Open the 3DS web browser (little blue globey at the top of the main menu) and type in http://hotdog.zone/3DSpace Here's a regular link in case you want to click it ahead of time to confirm, or are browsing tumblr from a 3DS: 3DS Space Pictures The first shot is by far the best; the other two have some alignment errors that can really bug the eye, sorry. I made these a while ago. I hope someone sees and enjoys these.
"Dad. Stop. I said stop. Dad. I SAID STOP"
How I explain the weapons to non-fencers
Epee: skewers
Foil: skewers with rules
Sabre: wippity wap
I was a wippity wap wielder, but I always had way more fun when I used a skewer with rules. I should've gone into skewers with rules more. :(
Fun fact: a huge chunk of our notion of retro punk aesthetic is based on a specific technical limitation of one particular computer graphics card.
In a nutshell, back in the early 1980s, the first widely available graphics card to support colour display was the IBM Computer Graphics Adapter, which would later lend its name to the CGA video standard. Though in theory it supported sixteen simultaneous colours, doing so at an acceptable resolution required complex coding tricks that wouldn’t necessarily work on all platforms. In practice, the most you could count on was four colors - and what’s more, it had to be four specific colours. You had your choice of black/green/red/yellow, black/blue/red/white, or black/cyan/magenta/white. The black slot could sometimes be swapped out for a limited range of other colours, but the other three slots were fixed.
All three palattes saw use for various purposes, but for gaming in particular, the green/red/yellow palette was generally regarded as too garish, and the blue/red/white as too flat, so the cyan/magenta/white palette won out by default - and that’s how we ended up with a generation of games that look like this:
Does that palette look familiar? It should - we slap it on basically everything that’s meant to evoke a retro 1980s aesthetic. But 80s fashion never actually looked like that: it’s literally just a technical limitation of one specific video card that’s become enshrined in our vision of the decade because an entire generation of video games was written for it.
Geology rocks, but Geography is where it’s at!
As the holder of a BA in Geography, I find this pun amazing.
That post about the ephemerality of video games as an artistic medium bugs the hell out of me because it correctly identifies the problem, but entirely misunderstands the reason the problem exists.
Like, yeah, Super Nintendo decks are getting increasingly hard to find these days, but there’s absolutely no danger of Super Nintendo games becoming unplayable, because of a little thing called emulation. You can download a small program right now that will run on any modern operating system and perfectly simulate a Super Nintendo right down to the last transistor. Load up your cart image and away you go!
In principle, this can be done for any hardware or software platform, and considerable efforts have been made to do just that. The primary barriers standing in the way of doing so are not technical, but legal. The reason there isn’t a widely available emulator that will simulate, say, Windows 95 running on a 233 Mhz Pentium II so you can boot up that dusty old copy of Septerra Core you found in the back of your closet isn’t because there’s no demand for it, nor because it’s technically impossible, but because Intel and Microsoft will sue anyone who tries to distribute such an emulator into a smoking crater.
And make no mistake, this isn’t because they’re reflexively litigious assholes, though they’re certainly that. It’s part of a calculated strategy on the part of major hardware manufacturers and media publishers to enforce artificial obsolescence of legacy software - particularly entertainment software, though by no means limited to such - so that you have to keep buying the same media over and over again in order to have a version that’s compatible with available platforms. The ability to force you to buy a fresh copy of your favourite game every five years or so if you want to continue playing it is free money for them - of course they’ll do everything in their power to grab it.
Like, absolutely, lament the fact that you can’t play the favourite video games of your childhood anymore, but recognise that this isn’t some bullshit object lesson about the impermanence of human achievement. It’s part of a deliberate and ongoing destruction of our cultural history by entrenched media monopolies in order to force you to buy more shit.
I generally agree, but *pushes glasses up nose* the software is *not* emulating a Super Nintendo down the last transistor. Emulators use TONS of shortcuts to get games playable -- even on modern hardware -- because emulating a system accurately is VERY HARD. The best project for accurate emulation is byuu's Higan (which used to be called bsnes), and he's still working it out; it also takes a lot of horsepower. Here's a seven year old article about bsnes and why accuracy is important -- there was at least one game that was unbeatable due to inaccurate emulation: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/ That said, you can get the *feel* and story of most games through emulation, and even though it's imperfect, it's still THE experience. I'll never be upset that someone played Chrono Trigger on an emulator on their phone rather than a SNES on a CRT because hey! THEY PLAYED CHRONO TRIGGER! That's a great game and a great experience! I, personally, feel strongly about accuracy and the work that byuu is doing, but I feel more strongly about people playing games. Mad props for calling out Septerra Core, though. ❤️
this blog is turning into “one crazy girl playing with food and photography equipment she should stay away from“
but i want to say, i feel extremely lucky to be able to spend a considerable amount of my time on something entirely stupid. free time is a gift, and there’s bliss in boredom, guys and girls
This is truly hypnotic.
Shapes of Nature
Trees surround us with their beauty in this set of photographs captured by Mikko Lagerstedt in Finland.
