Persnickety

random me snippets, #witchygal. left politics, the environment, the walking dead, trying to write. I'm a web designer. Obsessive moments likely. .

[through-a-historic-lens]

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

[retroactivebakeries]

#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again

[willowposs]

Important addition y’all

[powpowhammer]

Just saw her original sketchpad on graph paper at MoMA again recently. Queen shit. Here’s the placard plus photos of the actual sketchpad taken by people who weren’t trying to shoot with an android phone through a vitrine. (Image ID in alt text.)

[hawkofkrypton]

It’s almost as if female characters are more than boobs and hips 😨😰😱

[11990904]

[nostalgicfun]

What was your first source of portable music? Walkman? CD player with headphones? MP3 Player? iPod? Phone? 

[somecunttookmyurl]

my fucking god these tags aged me 50 years

they’re literally the size of a CD, hen. you can still buy them

[somecunttookmyurl]

presumably anti skip technology has evolved since then and actually reliably works now (if you jolt a cd drive when it’s playing the laser reading it will also jolt around and songs will skip - not useful when walking. anti skip technology is meant to stabilise so it doesn’t happen. very rarely was this actually the fucking case)

you’d carry around a little flip folder of CDs like this in your bag

often containing at least one mixtape cd you burned yourself, or that someone else had made you, with the tracklist written on it in sharpie

common from the late 90s - early/mid 00s when MP3 players and iPods started to take over

[dduane]

Been there. Had these. 😄

[persnicketynook]

I had one of the first 'portable' cd players. It was a chunky thing that skipped all the time and was virtually pointless. I stuck to cassettes for a long while especially since walkmans were much smaller.

[a-kid-world]

[persnicketynook]

I see this and all I can think of is the joy at Christmas of getting the little mermaid and lady and the tramp brand new on vhs. The smell of a brand new vhs, the packaging.

[nostalgicfun]

What was your first source of portable music? Walkman? CD player with headphones? MP3 Player? iPod? Phone? 

[synthwavesire]

[mysharona1987]

Everyone trying to become an orphan so Pedro Pascal can adopt them.

[persnicketynook]

Flashback Friday. Circa 1993.

[devilspanties]

[persnicketynook]

Daughter: my friend gave me lemons.

Me: is your friend named Life. Because you know, if 'Life' gives you lemons, you can make lemonade.

Ba dum tsh

[persnicketynook]

guilty pleasure

binge watching Alone, because i like watching people lose their minds. I mean they chose to be there, so i can laugh at them right?

[persnicketynook]

Gym'n it. #fitness #gym

[persnicketynook]

oh god found this from 7 years ago. I am so much skinnier there than i am now. 

happier now though. just need to be well enough to get back into fitness. Losing weight in your 40′s is tough.

[persnicketynook]

I do not understand meal planning

Like, people inflexibly plan out and shop for exactly what food they need to make specific meals each week.

What if you don’t want that meal when it comes around to Wednesday’s meal? I just make food with what i need to use up from the fridge based on pantry staples. 

[mysharona1987]

[persnicketynook]

No more poles. They were claimed by the sea late last year.

[persnicketynook]

like i said, i'm hoping i sent you an initial message inviting you to the Network, but if not, i created a Silicon Valley Network page so that we can easily find each other, it's under the url svsquad if you want to go look at it. let me know if you want anymore details

I've been away for a long time and just found this. Can you remind what its about. Thanks