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Wildwood, NJ.

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Beach fog at night.

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Blue sky and rust.

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Merry Christmas!

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Drone close up of iconic Philly graffiti.

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Mill Run Reservoir, Mill Run, PA. Summer 2020.

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Friday night dazzle camo face mask.

[mikewebkist]

COVID-19 movie night: Hackers (1995)

[dankmemeuniversity]

[scz]

Believe it or not, we've started playing Pokemon GO with my son this week. An outdoor family walk that doesn't require touching anything? Perfect.

[mikewebkist]

In Pokemon Go, you don't need to worry about social distancing...

[mikewebkist]

[dfwvocab]

versimilitude

verisimilitude  (noun): the appearance of being true or real

High-def mask-entrepreneurs ready and willing to supply not just verisimilitude but aesthetic enhancement — stronger chins, smaller eye-bags, air-brushed scars and wrinkles — soon pushed the original mimetic-mask-entrepreneurs right out of the market. In a gradually unsubtlizing progression, within a couple more sales-quarters most consumers were now using masks so undeniably better-looking on videophones than their real faces were in person, transmitting to one another such horrendously skewed and enhanced masked images of themselves, that enormous psychosocial stress began to result, large numbers of phone-users suddenly reluctant to leave home and interface personally with people who, they feared, were now habituated to seeing their far-better-looking masked selves on the phone and would on seeing them in person suffer (so went the callers’ phobia) the same illusion-shattering aesthetic disappointment that, e.g., certain women who always wear makeup give people the first time they ever see them without makeup.

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. New York: Bay Back Books, 1996. p148.

[mikewebkist]

Indefinite work-from-home, spending too much time reloading Amazon, making sure the webcam I need to improve my video call image quality is still backordered. DFW was there first.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1928

[wherethefuckisthetoaster]

[gypsyastronaut]

[mikewebkist]

[mikewebkist]

(via jwz: That time Zero Cool went to the dentist...)

[mikewebkist]

Our work wasn't quite finished yet, as we had to cut the album. To our knowledge nobody had put a program on a 12-inch disc before, so we were breaking new ground. After the last music track of side 2 there was a locking groove to prevent the code from blasting through someone's speakers. The only way to play the code was to physically lift the needle onto the last track.

jwz: Pete Shelley, screensaver and demoscene pioneer