Tree of Life

30/CT/Librarian/the token straight guy friend. My about page hasn't been touched in years so approach with caution.

[rainie-is-seasonchange]

Blue hydrangea.

Shiga, Japan.

[neversoma]

I wound up writing an email-ish thing to that game store instead of calling them. I hope I get an answer. Meanwhile, a coworker has offered to lend me Ultimate Spider-Man (2005), the next game from the same developer on that same subject. It's not exactly the same as the one I had but pretty close and well-regarded.

[neversoma]

Re: My post about video games (and I guess PS2 specifically) from last night, I was trying really hard to remember the name of some kind of used-stuff store around here, with multiple locations, and a coworker helpfully reminded me. It's Game X Change, a small national chain that exists nowhere else in the northeast besides 5 stories here in Connecticut. All the rest are in the south, ranging from Upper South to Deep South to whatever you call Oklahoma and Texas, plus 2 in Missouri. I have no idea where they started, of all this, and don't care to look it up.

As evidenced by the various reasons one of our patrons who sometimes goes there has cited over the years, they both sell and buy gaming stuff, both games and hardware...but also buy and sell lots of other electronics and such. The stores are seemingly never huge but I'm banking on the one nearest to me having good stuff. It better, because it's not that close by. Tomorrow night I may call them and ask a bit more about what they've got. This might be my key to getting a second, better boom box.

[isntnothing]

I’m in love with this stupid shirt

[neversoma]

This is a more a weekend thing than a just-now-today thing, but I continue to be struck by just how much the popularity and longevity of the PS2 created a situation whereby almost every random bunch of used games for sale not in the official context of a gaming store (something I haven't been to in ages), like in used media sales or antique places...are almost all PS2 games.

Unless Gamecube games start turning up fast, I may need to hunt down one of those later-model slimline PS2s!

(There is no actual urgency to...I'm too tired to finish this post.)

[thefragman]

moon's haunted

[herowyn]

5 0    Y E A R S    A G O

[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[marthajefferson]

Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong

(gifs from the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[crippledgiraff]

Jimothy would make a good squig

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[neversoma]

More smoke today. Quickly becoming a fan of airnow.gov as a straightforward go-to resource. Hopefully things clear tomorrow as forecast.

[neversoma]

Very tired. Distant wildfire smoke everywhere, some of the worst we've ever had. And it continues...

[hubristicfool]

no one likes my suggested "romantasy" portmanteau but for scifi: scromance

[neversoma]

I haven't actually watched any of them yet but the real source of the super-fast bunny appears to be this Youtube channel by the owner, filled with lots of other content.

[milquetoaast]

source

[dogpuppy]