Tag: 10mbpsisfastenoughforeveryone
Tag: 2001
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Tag: 2600
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🕹It's an Atari 2600 - in the cloud!
The cloud now contains everything, including the Atari 2600.
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🕹 Check out this 3D take of classic 2600 video games
The video is disappointing only in the fact that it is just showing a demo of the 2600 games. I would love to play a version of River Raid like this.
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👾 A genius has built a way to play 2600 Laser Blaster with a light gun
I sit around thinking about outlandish things that would be cool, but here is someone making their dreams reality. Nickbild built a way to play Laser Blaster with a light gun.
Tag: 6502
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💾 Upcoming virtual conference - 6502: THE CHIP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
6502: The Chip That Changed The World is happening Thursday, and it looks like a really cool venture.
Tag: 8-bit
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🖥 No wonder Apple users are so loud!
The Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters and now you know why. Inverse characters are a nice hack though.
Tag: 80s
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I can still identify at least 90% of the singers
I bought the album just for the Huey Lewis song.
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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I would like to offer the greatest name of an arcade ever
31 Vintage Photos From The Glory Days Of Arcades
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🕹 What's better than dual player Joust? Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust
This is awesome, Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust.
Tag: 90s
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🖥️ What it was like buying a computer in the early 90s
Here’s a look at what it was like to buy a computer in 1994. What impressed me most was how much knowledge the sales people had! The footage was filmed in an Incredible Universe, which was a pretty cool store at the time. Too bad they didn’t make it.
And maybe you want a more professional look at buying a computer, this time in 1993?
Tag: absolutelyamazing
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RRR 13 word review
Absolutely amazing. The most fun I’ve had in the theater in years. Amazing.
Tag: aceventura
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🎥 Introducing the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator
Here is an example of a site you didn’t know you needed in your life, the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator.
Tag: activision
Tag: adventofcode
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I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Treetop Tree House' - Day 8 on the Atari 8-bit Computer - Advent of Code 2022
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Supply Stacks' - Day 5 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2022
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And I just accidentally overwrote all of my work from the last two hours on today's Advent of Code
Looks like I’ll have to try to complete it and tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. 😢
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I just completed 'Camp Cleanup' - Day 4 on my Atari 1200XL - Advent of Code 2022
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Rucksack Reorganization' on my Atari 1200XL with Fastbasic - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Rock Paper Scissors' on my Atari 1200XL - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Calorie Counting' - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 - Yay AtariBasic
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022
Tag: afterdark
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🔪 Relive the glory days of the Mac After Dark screen savers
Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.
Tag: ai
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🎥 Robots are coming for your screenwriters
For Memorial Day Ars Technica re-ran an article from 2016 where they fed a neural network a bunch of sci fi scripts and created a movie from the results. It is bizarrely fascinating.
Tag: aimingfor400k
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One hour until my Atari Jaguar livestream at 7:30pm EDT
Goz's Streaming Life | GozGeek - The Geek for All of Us
Tag: airpods
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🎧 You probably shouldn't eat your airpods
Apple’s Airpods are pretty small, but I never thought seeing what happens after I swallowed one.
Tag: alienday
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👽 PSA - Today is Alien Day
Just to let you know, today is Alien Day, so be sure to celebrate the planet LV-426 by watching Alien, Aliens, or sucking on someone’s face.
Tag: almostlooksfactoryinstalled
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Buying the stereo from Crutchfield was really nice, they sent everything I needed to install the new stereo
I had them build the cable, which was a little expensive but worth it.
Tag: altirra
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
Tag: alwaysthelasttoknow
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Why is Return of the Jedi at the theaters this weekend?
And why am I just finding out about it now?
Tag: amazon
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📱 Fixing a Kindle Fire tablet stuck at the boot screen
My Kindle Fire 7 (2015) wouldn’t boot, so here’s how I fixed it.
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Cheap Fire Tablets Will Soon Be Great Game Emulators – Review Geek
Good news for retro game players, Retroarch is coming to the Amazon App Store. You’ll be able to play all of your retro goodness without having to sideload Retroarch.
I’ve got an old 7" tablet that I need to try this out on!
Tag: amazonprimevideo
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Invincible Review: An Engaging and Gripping Animated Super Hero Show
I just finished Invincible on Amazon Prime Video and I am blown away. Although the gore may turn off some viewers, it made the whole idea of super heroes a little more realistic, much like Amazon Prime Video The Boys does.
Tag: amiga
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👾 The Amiga is getting a mini videogame system release
The Amiga was a computer system from the late 80s who’s claim to fame was it’s use in TV and movie production. Babylon 5 used the Amiga extensively for the CGI. The Amiga is the next mini console to be released. There are a ton of great games for the Amiga, and since you can load your own, I’m a little intrigued by this.
Tag: android
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📱 An NBA team was punished because a player dared to have an Android phone
An NBA head coach punished the entire team because one of the players had an Android phone and it messed up a group chat.
I have so many issues with this. For starters, I can’t image dealing with a group chat of 15 in iMessages. Secondly, there are so many better ways to deal with group chat. Thirdly, isn’t it the lack of the coaches knowledge that caused the error and not the player?
Tag: annoyances
Tag: ant-man
Tag: apple
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👩💻 More Meta shenanigans, alternative uses for the Apple Watch, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-08
Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.
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The iconic iMac G4 turns 20 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-14
The iconic iMac G4 turns 20, Facebook is still creepin’ on you, and more.
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📱 The $17,000 iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-29
That fancy new smartphone is more expensive than you may have realized.
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🖼 Free Ted Lasso wallpapers for your screen
If you are a fan of Ted Lasso, you can download Richmand Team Logo wallpapers for your computer.
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🔪 Relive the glory days of the Mac After Dark screen savers
Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.
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🎧 You probably shouldn't eat your airpods
Apple’s Airpods are pretty small, but I never thought seeing what happens after I swallowed one.
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⌨ Building a Macbook with a mechanical keyboard
Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.
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📶 iPhone bug breaks Wifi
There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.
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🗺 Uploading data by abusing Apple's Find My network
I love a good hack, and this one is great. Here is a project that allows you to upload data using Apple’s Find My network.
Apple’s Find My network is pretty cool. Apple devices can see other Apple devices around them, and upload information to Apple that owner of said devices can use to find their devices. It’s all done securely, and is really cool. This is how Apple’s new AirTags work, since they do not have any sort of wifi or cellular capability.
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🚀 A Macintosh Portable ejecting a disk - IN SPACE!
One difference between Macs and other computers with 3.5" disk drives was that the Mac relieved you of the work of pulling the disk out of the drive. The Mac had a powered eject that would gently eject the disk from the machine and basically handing the disk to you.
This works great where you have gravity, but it has some issues in space.
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💻 Updating a Macbook with a Raspberry Pi 4
What do you do when your Macbook has stopped working? How about stuffing a Raspberry Pi 4 inside.
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🖥 No wonder Apple users are so loud!
The Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters and now you know why. Inverse characters are a nice hack though.
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🖥 Why the M1 iMac still has a chin
At the Apple event, Apple brought out the multi-colored iMacs. I’m sure these will be a big hit with social influencers and YouTubers. The general consensus is that they look great, except for one thing. The chin. Apple could have install the computer behind the screen and eliminated the chin at the expense of making the computer thicker. Heaven forbid we have a Mac that is thicc. But, I have a theory…
Tag: appleii
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⌨ I heard you like emulators in your games
Zero_page on Twitter is either crazy or a genius for creating a working Apple II in the Unity game engine.
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🖨 Layout your signs, cards, and banners in The Print Shop - now available online!
In the 80s and 90s, almost every sign created was done in The Print Shop. Today, it’s more difficult to get an Apple II set up and printer going. Never fear, because now you can use The Print Shop online! Once your creation is complete, you can download it as a PDF to print out on any print you have.
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🐣 Karateka Easter egg
I guess this is common knowledge, but you can boot Karateka for Apple II upside down. I missed it because I played the game on the technically superior Atari 800XL.
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🏞 Oregon Trail updated for Apple Arcade to remove historical inaccuracies
Gameloft has released a new version of Oregon Trail for Apple Arcade that removed a lot of historical inaccuracies.
However, you can still die of dysentery.
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🖥 Displaying full motion video on the Apple //e
Here’s a great hack, displaying full motion video on an Apple //e. Hopefully a version of Sewer Shark will be released soon.
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💾 A disk that boots and Atari, C64, or Apple II
Here is something truly amazing, a boot floppy that will start up an Atari, Commodore C64, or an Apple II. It’s not a flippy, but just one side that boots whatever machine it is inserted.
Tag: appletvplus
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🖼 Free Ted Lasso wallpapers for your screen
If you are a fan of Ted Lasso, you can download Richmand Team Logo wallpapers for your computer.
Tag: april1st
Tag: arcade
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️Here’s me playing Tempest on my MAME cabinet with my new spinner and new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT
Tempest with a spinner on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT Monitor - YouTube
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Here's what vector gameplay looks like on my new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT Monitor
Playing Asteroids on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT monitor! - YouTube
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I finally got around to upgrading my X-Arcade joystick to USB
I’ve only been sitting on the kit for 6 years…
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How to access Pac-Man or the speed up hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets
This post is mostly for myself so I can quickly lookup the joystick sequence to enable Pac-Man or use the speedup hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets. It seems like this is the most common cabinet, I see it the most out in the wild.
Play Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man started out as a ROM hack of the original Pac-Man board, and because of that, Ms. Pac-Man ran on the same hardware as the Pac-Man cabinets.
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🕹 What's better than dual player Joust? Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust
This is awesome, Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust.
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
Tag: arcades
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I would like to offer the greatest name of an arcade ever
31 Vintage Photos From The Glory Days Of Arcades
Tag: article
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✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI My notes are not fancy This article can be condensed to “all of my notes are in my Notes folder”.
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The Marvels 13 Word Review
Great movie with an outstanding cast, quotes, humor that felt natural unlike Quantumania.
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I’m putting vintage computers in plastic tubs for storage
Should I put some sort of barrier between them?
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Hi everyone, long time no post. We’ll, I guess I’ve had some random ones here and there, but for the most part I took the last four months off.
Hopefully I haven’t missed anything
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Why is Return of the Jedi at the theaters this weekend?
And why am I just finding out about it now?
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of the iTunes music store
let’s listen to the first song I ever purchased, Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk
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️Here’s me playing Tempest on my MAME cabinet with my new spinner and new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT
Tempest with a spinner on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT Monitor - YouTube
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Here's what vector gameplay looks like on my new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT Monitor
Playing Asteroids on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT monitor! - YouTube
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⌨Heads up, Github changed their RSA key this morning
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 13 word review
Mediocre showing of the quantum-verse, and worst of all, no Michael Peña.
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The Gray Man 13 word review
So many drone shots, decent action flick. Ryan Gosling can do no wrong.
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The latter part of the first season of TNG has a lot of showing off what they could do with production values
Angel One shows several transporter sequences with others moving in the shot, and 11001001 opens with some nice space shots. Not that I’m complaining!
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Roman Holiday 13 word movie review
Excellent movie, an amazing performance by Audrey Hepburn in her first leading role.
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Glass Onion review in 13 words
Long, but builds to an almost satisfying conclusion. Worth it though, go watch!
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M3GAN 13 word review
It’s predictable but with excellent execution. A great way to spend an afternoon.
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Who wants to make the bet that the FAA database is an Excel spreadsheet?
Created 15 years ago by someone who left 13 years ago.
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We're putting in new copiers on teacher work day.
You would think I just told the teachers that the copiers will never work again. All I said was don’t plan on printing on Tuesday…
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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All right people, what are you waiting for? Another glorious day in the Corps.
A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal’s a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the Corps!
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Finally installed my 14T drive in my desktop.
I can now install all of the Epic/GoG/Steam sales/free games I’ve acquired this month.
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
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I'm looking for suggestions on what to stream tonight! Any ideas?
Pretty much anything is on the table… Maybe I’ll go back to Advent of Code on my Atari 800XL…
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Remember in the 80s when you could only use the computer at home, in only one room?
I’m sending this from a mall food court. Isn’t the future grand?
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I'm not going to lie, this looks pretty awesome
BARBIE - Teaser Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube
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For those that still have to be on the bird site, use lists
Create a list and only open that list on the site. You’ll only see the the most relevant tweets since they are from the people you specifically chose, without any recommendations or other stuff.
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Soma.fm’s Department Store Christmas channel is fantastic
SomaFM: Department Store Christmas: Holiday Elevator Music from a more innocent time. (Specials) Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio
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With inspiration from @[email protected] about IRC on Twitter, there is #RetroMastodon on Libera. Quickest way to join is to use KiwiIRC
Kiwi IRC - The web IRC client
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And I just accidentally overwrote all of my work from the last two hours on today's Advent of Code
Looks like I’ll have to try to complete it and tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. 😢
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I just completed 'Camp Cleanup' - Day 4 on my Atari 1200XL - Advent of Code 2022
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Rucksack Reorganization' on my Atari 1200XL with Fastbasic - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Rock Paper Scissors' on my Atari 1200XL - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Calorie Counting' - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 - Yay AtariBasic
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022
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Wait, according to my Star Wars calendar, the moon is called Endor, BUT SO IS THE GAS GIANT IT'S ORBITING?
What genius thought that was a good idea?
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Hey look, Marina Sirtis is in the episode of The Orville
I wonder when Jonathan Frakes will show up… (waits 17 seconds) ‘Directed by Jonathan Frakes’ Bingo!
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I'm watching The Orville for the first time and am so sorry I never watched it before.
S02E06 seals it for me. A whole orchestra and a significant amount of playtime? Absolutely amazing. +100 GozPoints to Seth MacFarlane.
Tag: asides
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-26
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📝 Doom running in Windows Notepad, issues with adult videos streaming in Splatoon and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-21
Doom running in Windows Notepad, issues with adult videos streaming in Splatoon and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-21
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-19
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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🌿 Plants with machetes, Dvorak keyboard for your iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-14
Plants with machetes, Dvorak keyboard for your iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-14
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-12
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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🐻 Virtual pets in Virtual Studio, interview with AI Linux, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-07
Virtual pets in Virtual Studio, interview with AI Linux, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-07
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-05
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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💾 Add hard drive sounds to your flash based retro PC, canceled Star Trek films and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-30
Add hard drive sounds to your flash based retro PC, canceled Star Trek films and more.
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📱 A multiwindow PalmOS operating system, a keyboard display box, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-23
A multiwindow PalmOS operating system, a keyboard display box, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-23
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🕵️♀️ Goldeneye 007, floppy disks, and the 2600 at 45, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-16
Goldeneye 007, floppy disks, and the 2600 at 45, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-16
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🚂 Steam powered Pis, AI art, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-09
Powering a Raspberry Pi with Steam, using AI to create art, and more. This Geek in Review
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🎆 Hacking over USB, Rickrolling a school district, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-02
Hacking over USB, Rickrolling a school district, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-02
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😎 Of course Doom made the list this week and more geekery - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-26
A terrible, terrible version of Doom and more - This Geek in Review
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🕹 The birth of the arcade fighter genre, songs crashing hard drives, and more spying from Meta - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-19
The birth of the arcade fighter genre, songs crashing hard drives, and more spying from Meta - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-19
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🌐 The boring web, ranting at remote work, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-12
The web has gotten boring, a writer complains about remote work, and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-08-12.
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📡 Charter Spectrum owes $7B, Weird Al, and the passing of Nichelle Nichols - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-05
Charter Spectrum owes $7B, Weird Al, and the passing of Nichelle Nichols
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🌴 Vacation edition - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-29
No commentary this week, but a ton of links that I found interesting.
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👨💻 ChromeOS for Macs and PCs; riding when old; and videogames for life - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-22
ChromeOS is a good solution for the family tech support issues. Also, it is you on why roller coasters aren’t as fun and building skills with video games
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🌞 The lazy days of summer - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-15
The lazy days of summer are upon us!
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📱 My phone is always on silent, putting Macs out to pasture, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-08
My phone is always on silent. Apple is decreasing the number of years macOS gets updates on hardware, is that going to be a problem? And more geekery!
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🎶 John Williams retiring and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-01
Who can replace John Williams When you think of movie scores, at the top of the list is John Williams. From the scoring of the first summer blockbust Jaws to Indiana Jones 5, the man has cemented his legendary status as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, film composers of all time. Come to think of it, could you find someone that doesn’t recognize at least one of his scores?
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🕹 Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-24
Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming.
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👨💻 Browser ad blocking, the Facebook Portal, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-17
Browser ad blocking, the Facebook Portal, and more. This Geek in Review for 2022-06-17.
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🎹 RIP Dave Smith, here comes Beavis & Butt-Head, and celebrating The Wrath of Khan - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-10
A legend in digital music, Dave Smith passed away this week. Beavis and Butt-Head are coming to Paramount+, and The Wrath of Khan turns 40. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-06-10.
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👾 Defining retro, Whiz Kids, developing in the cloud - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-03
Some thoughts on defining retrogaming, watching Whiz Kids, and Microsoft is offering developing in the cloud.
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🕸 Marvel is getting complicated, movie pace, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-27
How complicated can the MCU get? And can movies be slow paced in the 21st century? All this and more in this Geek in Review for 2022-05-27
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🧱 Lego bricks and internet travels - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-20
How do you play with Legos?
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🎶 No more iPod, freaky retro game prices, searching the internet, and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-05-13
The iPod is dead, retro game prices are suspect, searching the internet, and more in This Geek in Review
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📺 No more scripted TV, OJ in your cereal and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-06
The scripted show is going extinct Warner Bros. and the Discovery channel are cutting scripted shows. This affects shows at TNT and TBS. I don’t know what was a factor in this decision, but I can’t help to think that Netflix’s losses didn’t help.
Is the scripted show dead? Of course not. Even during the worst times of TV there still have been shows. What is missing from the current crop of shows is re-watchability.
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💲 I'd buy that for $44B and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-29
Musk buys Twitter, confusing references on Friends, and more - This week in Review for 2022-04-29
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👩💻 The WE in World Wide WEb and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-22
Putting the WE into World Wide WEb, the Apple ][ hits 45, and more in this geek in review for April 22nd, 2022
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💾 Our computers are more powerful than ever, but are we using that power? - More in this Geek in Review for 2022-04-15
Powerful computers, Reddit, and more in this geek in review.
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👩💻 More Meta shenanigans, alternative uses for the Apple Watch, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-08
Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.
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Gifs, the TRS-80, the last blockbuster movie, Apple, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-01
The creators of gifs and the TRS-80 have passed away. Also, have we reached peak original blockbuster movie? And, Apple has come up with another way to make money. All this and more!
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🏀 A new look for the NBA, 80s tiny PCs, Steve Jobs, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-25
The NBA is trying out a new way to watch basketball. I also talk about small, affordable early 80s computers and look at a job application that Steve Jobs filled out. And more!
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📺 Ads in streaming, Apple, and the Fantastic Four - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-18
Disney+ is rumored to begin having a lower ad support tier. Apple has released new products, and people are wondering when we’ll see a new Fantastic Four movie. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-03-18.
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🤖 Bender is back, an AlphaGo documentary, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-11
Bender is back, an AlphaGo documentary, and more on This Geek in Review!
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🌌 Multiverse perils, discless retrogaming, longer TikToks, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-04
What’s wrong with the Marvel Multiverse, discless gaming, and TikTok? All this and more in The Geek in Review.
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🌌 Another Kelvin timeline Star Trek, John Williams, and downloadable gaming - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-25
I’ve got a bad feeling about the next Star Trek movie, John Williams is back, and no disc gaming. All this and more on This Geek in Review.
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💰 Modern day Bonnie & Clyde, Madden Football love, Futurama and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-18
Modern day Bonnie & Clyde, Madden Football love, Futurama and more - This Geek in Review
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🎬 Long movies, Oregon Trail, Buzz Lightyear and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-11
Long movies, Oregon Trail, and Buzz Lightyear. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 11 Feb 2022.
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BlackBerry is still a thing, and Sony made moves - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-04
BlackBerry sold its mobile patents, Sony buys Bungie, and more in this geek in review.
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Multiversus could be the ultimate platform brawler and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-28
Multiversus looks like it’s going to be pretty fun platform brawler. The character selection is amazing! And there’s much more!
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Wordle is sweeping the world and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-21
Wordle is sweeping the world!
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The iconic iMac G4 turns 20 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-14
The iconic iMac G4 turns 20, Facebook is still creepin’ on you, and more.
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📅 Welcome to 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-07
We have lost a legend in Betty White and Blackberry.
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🎉 New Years Eve Edition - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-31
The James Webb telescope has launched! And more in This Geek in Review
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🎄 Christmas Eve edition of this Geek in Review for 2021-12-24
Christmas Eve is here, so I hope you all survived the feats of strength yesterday.
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📺 The worst TV sitcoms from the last ten years and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-17
If these are the worst sitcoms, then we’re doing pretty well.
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🤣 Rogers, the Musical and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-10
One of the best things of the Hawkeye TV show is Rogers, The Musical, and now we have a full length song from it. Hopefully more will be coming!
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🕵️ And this is why people have trust issues - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-03
First rule of viral marketing - don’t lie. Plus a ton of geek, retro, and more stuff.
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📖 "He card read good" - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-26
Writing poorly is big business with Grammerly, and, just how awesome was 1980? Read more to see the sites I visited this week on the internet.
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👾 Happy 20th Xbox and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-19
Happy 20th Xbox! Here’s to another 20!
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👾 8-bit Christmas movie and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-12
Neil Patrick Harris stars in an upcoming Christmas movie, 8-bit Christmas, voice chat over IRC, and more.
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😱 A Facebook of any other name - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-05
All your virtual worlds belong to Facebook… I mean, Meta.
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📱 The $17,000 iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-29
That fancy new smartphone is more expensive than you may have realized.
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👨💻 New Apple MacBook Pros and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-22
New Macbook Pros, The Batman, and more geek travels
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🚀 Captain Kirk reaches space, G4 TV is back, retro, geeky things and more! - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-15
Captain Kirk reaches space, G4 TV is back, retro, geeky things and more!
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🗣️ Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week This Geek in Review for 2021-10-08
Facebook went down, putting Whatsapp, Instagram, and more out of commission. And then to twist the knife, a Facebook whistleblower explained to congress how evil Facebook has become. My geek travels went from Mick Jagger to cheating on tests to wedding photos taken with the Gameboy camera.
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✨ This Geek in Review for 2021-10-01
I’m going to try something different with my This Geek in Review posts. Instead of creating individual posts for various cool things I find on the internet, I’m going to post one list on Fridays.
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🎮 The Nintendo Gamecube is now 20 years old!
The Nintendo Gamecube was released in Japan on September 14, 2001. I can’t remember when I actually bought one, but I loved playing through Metroid Prime. One of the few games I’ve actually completed, and, without going to any playthrough on the internet.
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🚗 If you are in Washington DC, go check out the Back to the Future Delorean at the National Mall
As part of the 2021 Cars at the Capital exhibit, the DeLorean from Back to the Future will be on display at the National Mall in Washington DC. You better be quick, it’s only there until Thursday.
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🕹It's an Atari 2600 - in the cloud!
The cloud now contains everything, including the Atari 2600.
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👾 The Amiga is getting a mini videogame system release
The Amiga was a computer system from the late 80s who’s claim to fame was it’s use in TV and movie production. Babylon 5 used the Amiga extensively for the CGI. The Amiga is the next mini console to be released. There are a ton of great games for the Amiga, and since you can load your own, I’m a little intrigued by this.
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👨🏭 Working two remote jobs is possible
You’ve probably heard about people working two remote jobs, which means making two full-time salaries during the work week. It’s not a joke, people are able to work two full-time jobs at the same time. Too bad I’m no where near organized enough to pull this off.
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🕹 Check out this 3D take of classic 2600 video games
The video is disappointing only in the fact that it is just showing a demo of the 2600 games. I would love to play a version of River Raid like this.
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🖥 Check out a modern take on retro computer terminals
I’m a huge fan of the command line, and I would be thrilled to be able to use one of these terminals!
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🤼 Paying $299 for Facebook support
I don’t know what’s worse. Using Facebook or buying a $299 VR headset so you can get support from Facebook.
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📡 We all want faster internet in our cars, but attaching a Starlink dish to the hood is not the answer
Police ticketed a California driver for driving with a Starlink dish attached to the hood. The driver said it was for the business they run out of the car.
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💬 Run an IRC server under DOS on any PC with an 8088 or better CPU
Sure, Microsoft ushered in 2002 by declaring MS-DOS 6.22 was obsolete, but that doesn’t stop people from using it. And now you can run the IRC server ngircd under DOS on just about any old PC compatible. For the full affect you’ll want a network card.
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🎥 Labyrinth Returns to Theaters for 35th Anniversary
I’ve never seen Labyrinth, but now’s my chance!
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🖼 Free Ted Lasso wallpapers for your screen
If you are a fan of Ted Lasso, you can download Richmand Team Logo wallpapers for your computer.
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Cheap Fire Tablets Will Soon Be Great Game Emulators – Review Geek
Good news for retro game players, Retroarch is coming to the Amazon App Store. You’ll be able to play all of your retro goodness without having to sideload Retroarch.
I’ve got an old 7" tablet that I need to try this out on!
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🐍 Florida celebrates Whacking Day
Today I learned that Florida celebrates Whacking Day, except their day lasts 10.
No word yet on how Lisa or Barry White feel about it.
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⌨ I heard you like emulators in your games
Zero_page on Twitter is either crazy or a genius for creating a working Apple II in the Unity game engine.
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📱 An NBA team was punished because a player dared to have an Android phone
An NBA head coach punished the entire team because one of the players had an Android phone and it messed up a group chat.
I have so many issues with this. For starters, I can’t image dealing with a group chat of 15 in iMessages. Secondly, there are so many better ways to deal with group chat. Thirdly, isn’t it the lack of the coaches knowledge that caused the error and not the player?
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🔪 Relive the glory days of the Mac After Dark screen savers
Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.
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🤖 Transformers - The Movie Returns to Theaters for its 35th Anniversary
There are days you wake up and think it’s going to just be another boring day when you are pleasantly surprised by something awesome. Transformers: The Movie is coming back to the theaters in September for its 35th anniversary.
The movie does have some issues, especially with how they decided to make us all want new toys, but the soundtrack is spot on. Stan Bush rocks it, along with Weird Al.
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🌮 Taco Bell hit by nationwide shortages
Is your Taco Bell closing early like mine is? It’s because Taco Bell is having a nationwide shortage of ingredients.
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🎶📺 Today is the 40th anniversary of MTV - Watch the first 2 hours on YouTube
In the 80s, I lived 10 miles out of town and had 4 channels. Even then, I still knew what MTV was and tried to watch it any chance I got. The closest we had to MTV was Friday Night Videos.
I was curious what MTV is today, so I pulled up the schedule. Apparently MTV is now the Ridiculousness. What a lost opportunity, where is the retrospective?
YouTube killed MTV a long time ago, mostly due to the impulsivity of people today.
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🖼 Here are some free GREAT looking backgrounds
Finding the perfect background can take hours, but here is a good selection of free backgrounds that you can choose. Each background is available in light and dark, along with a motion background. In Windows, I use the app Desktop Live Wallpapers to set the video as the background. The free version only supports .wmv files, so I used Cloud Convert to convert the movie background to .wmv.
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🖨 Layout your signs, cards, and banners in The Print Shop - now available online!
In the 80s and 90s, almost every sign created was done in The Print Shop. Today, it’s more difficult to get an Apple II set up and printer going. Never fear, because now you can use The Print Shop online! Once your creation is complete, you can download it as a PDF to print out on any print you have.
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🏠 Here's a house for you in Dallas
If you ever wanted to live in a data center, then I have the house for you. There is one bathroom, but you’re on your own for a bedroom.
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👻 New Ghostbusters - Afterlife trailer has dropped!!
I was a little excited before, now I’m very excited.
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🐣 Karateka Easter egg
I guess this is common knowledge, but you can boot Karateka for Apple II upside down. I missed it because I played the game on the technically superior Atari 800XL.
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😈 Police are called in to break up an exorcism at a Home Depot
Home Depot can supply everything, including exorcisms.
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🔮 The Warhammer 40K timeline in 20 minutes
I know nothing about Warhammer 40K, except that it involves the painting of incredibly intricate figurines. This video makes me want to learn more.
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📧 Create better out of office messages with this generator
The Out of Office Message Generator will create an out of office message that either links to a random article on Wikipedia, posts a quote from Wikipedia, or both. For example:
While I’m away you can read about famous shoe throwing incidents on Wikipedia, or ponder this beautiful quote: “There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell.
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🐒 Super Monkey Ball is being remastered
One of the greatest party games for the Gamecube is being remastered, Super Monkey Ball. The game will include my favorite, Super Monkey Ball 2 along with local only multiplayer modes. And you know what, I’m glad it’s local only. That’s the only way to play it multiplayer.
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⚔ Quake turns 25
Quake turned 25 this year, and what a ground breaking game it was (and still is). One of my favorite features was that you could put any music CD in your computer and use that music as the background music. Many a days were spent listening to Junior Brown as I played Quake.
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🎧 You probably shouldn't eat your airpods
Apple’s Airpods are pretty small, but I never thought seeing what happens after I swallowed one.
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📺 Knight Rider reboot confirmed?
David Hasselhoff confirms that the Knight Rider reboot is happening.
Could Knight Rider work today? When it was released, computers were mysterious boxes used by few, and cars were very important in most people’s lives. Today, computers are ubiquitous and cars are viewed more as a tool and not a source of identity. I’m hoping something cool can come of it though.
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🎥 Now there is even more of the Super Mario Bros. movie to enjoy
If you thought that the Super Mario Bros. Movie could stand to have more added to it, then do I have good news for you. There is an extended version of the movie that has been found!
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📱 Relive iOS 4 on your current iPhone
If you are feeling nostalgic for iOS 4, there is an app for that.
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🎶 The Back to the Future musical is on track for August
I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be good, especially with the people involved. Too bad I won’t be in England in August.
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🎥 Introducing the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator
Here is an example of a site you didn’t know you needed in your life, the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator.
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⌚ Why watches use IIII instead of IV
Some of the things I find on the internet are fascinating, and the story behing the use of the Roman numberal IIII instead of IV is pretty cool.
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🤶 Mother attends school as her 7th grade daughter, is charged with trespassing
A Texas mother went to school pretending to be her 7th grade daughter. She is now being charged with trespassing. No word yet on how her grades were that day.
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🚀 The military wants to rocket supplies around the world
The US military can deploy pretty quickly to remote locations, but there is still a limit on how fast they can get there with a plan. That’s why the military is looking at using rockets to transport supplies.
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📺 Why did so many 90s sitcoms have a Disney World episode?
If you watched sitcoms in the 90s, you inevitably watched an episode where the characters traveled to Disney World and hilarity ensued. But why? The CEO at the time, Michael Eisner, invited any and all sitcoms to pitch an idea. If it was approved, they could film at Disney World. One notable sitcom at the time, Friends, did not get their story approved. Apparently, Joey hooking up with Cinderella was a little to risque for Eisner.
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👾 A genius has built a way to play 2600 Laser Blaster with a light gun
I sit around thinking about outlandish things that would be cool, but here is someone making their dreams reality. Nickbild built a way to play Laser Blaster with a light gun.
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🎶 The Seinfeld music mashup that you didn't know you needed
When I lose faith in what the internet can produce, I’m going to come back to this video.
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🎮 Here's a look from Vice inside the world's largest video game cheating empire
I didn’t know there were so many posers paying for video game cheats. Vice looks at the cheating group that made $70 million off of PUBG. The only winners in this are the people selling the cheats, because the players playing the game lose on both sides.
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💫 You know Star Wars Episodes 8 & 9 have issues when judges start weighing in
Someday when your bored, ask me to weigh in on how much I don’t really like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, I don’t get to rant in court about how bad they are. At least, not yet.
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🎲 What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly?
Here are some people answering the important question, What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly. Unfortunately, you’re limited to what the dice rolls, so the chances of this happening in a real life game is pretty slim.
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🕹 What's better than dual player Joust? Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust
This is awesome, Massively Multiplayer Online Deathmatch Joust.
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🎴 US Soldiers were cramming for tests using online flashcard apps, and were unwittingly leaking nuclear info
Here’s something you don’t think of when using flashcard apps, the fact that most card decks are automatically set to public. And if they contain nuclear secrets, that can be a problem.
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⚡ The UK police raided what they thought was a weed farm, but was a totally different kind of farm
One way that police track down illegal weed growers is to monitor energy usage. However, there is another profitable venture with free energy, and that is mining Bitcoin.
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📶 A Comcast customer used bittorrent to download Ubunut and hilarity ensued
A Comcast customer wanted to use Ubuntu and decided to download it over Bittorrent. His reward? A DMCA notice. Just to be clear, Ubuntu is freely distributable, and using Bittorrent to download files is also legal.
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🏢 Jim and Pam's proposal cost the show $250,000!
Jenna Fischer has given us a behind the scene look on Jim and Pam’s proposal at the “gas station”. I’m sure they had a good reason to build a set, but, still.
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🎥 Disney changes The Rise of Skywalker
Before you get too excited, Disney didn’t actually change the content of the film. Besides adding lots of lens flare, JJ Abrams added a lot of blue to The Rise of Skywalker, which Disney has now removed in the version on Disney+. The stills look better than the original.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t improve the movie enough to get me to watch it again.
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🍗 How the pandemic has brought the age of chick wing delivery
In The Great Wings Rush, The Verge digs into the onslaught of chicken wing delivery and how restaurant chains are trying to get a piece of the action. Even Chuck E. Cheese is in on it.
For myself, I like a good wing as much as the next guy. However, I am also lazy when it comes to my food and wings require a little too much effort for my taste (pun intended).
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🚀 Did the Star Trek Voyager finale missed its mark?
On the 20th anniversary of the Star Trek Voyager finale, The Hollywood Report laments on how the finale missed its greatness. The biggest argument was that we didn’t see how the crew re-assimilated (pun intended) back into their old life. My biggest beef with the finale was how they castrated the borg, but we’ll save that discussion for another day.
In the case of the finale being underwhelming, let’s look back at a great TV show that had the same premise, Gilligan’s Island.
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🎭 Using deepfake technology for movie dubs
This is a really cool use of deepfake technology, blending the actor’s and dubber’s facial expersions to make a great looking dubbed film. There are so many foreign language films that may be able to find a broader audience with this technology.
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👩🏭 Google may have saved over $1 billion dollars with working from home
With the pandemic shutting down offices, Google projects that it saved over a billion dollars by not having workers in the office. And they made even more money.
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🎥 Robots are coming for your screenwriters
For Memorial Day Ars Technica re-ran an article from 2016 where they fed a neural network a bunch of sci fi scripts and created a movie from the results. It is bizarrely fascinating.
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⌨ Building a Macbook with a mechanical keyboard
Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.
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😴 Does night shift help you sleep
Finally, some research into whether night shift on your phone helps you sleep better. Night shift is when your phone removes the blues from the image, giving you this dull, brown tinted screen. I use it, especially in dark areas, because even when the phone is turned down to the minimum brightness it can still be blinding.
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📶 Google is experimenting with RSS... Again.
Killing off Google Reader just wasn’t enough for Google, now they are twisting the knife by experimenting with adding RSS feeds to the Android version of Chrome.
My current favorite RSS reader is Inoreader, it’s what I use to follow sites and people that I’m interested in, chronologically. I don’t miss stories because an algorithm thought I wasn’t interested.
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📶 iPhone bug breaks Wifi
There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.
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📺 Building a cyberdeck with a mini CRT
I’m really fascinated with cyberdeck builds, and this one built with a mini tv and Colecovision control is pretty awesome.
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
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⌚ How to get 67% more speed with external drives on your M1 Mac
OWC found out that you can get get up to 67% faster Thunderbolt drive performance with your M1 Mac simply by using an external Thunderbolt display.
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🎥 Raiders at 40
A couple of retrospectives on one of the greatest movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Enduring Myths of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Spielberg Revisit Raiders of the Lost Ark – The Hollywood Reporter.
For some reason I don’t remember seeing it in the theater, although I know I must have. It ran for 10 months, so I figure I saw it at least a couple of times.
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🍽 Here's a microwave that runs Linux
Here’s a microwave that runs Linux for voice control. It’s only a matter of time before Doom is ported to it.
Also, one step closer to getting Linux on my toaster.
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💾 Linux on a single floppy, again
Remember in the past when you could fit a bootable copy of Linux on to one single floppy drive? Well, remember no more because you can now do it again with a modern Linux kernel.
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👩🔬 Fortran forever
First it was COBOL programmers that were needed and now we find out that Fortran programmers are also needed.
Too bad I left my COBOL skills back in the 80s, I could be sitting pretty right now.
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👏 Ding, dong, Internet Explorer is (almost) dead
First we have the death of Adobe Flash and hot on its heels is the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Well, it’s only on life support, the plug will be pulled in June of 2022.
Does anyone still run IE?
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👎 Thumbs down to thumbs up
A University of Cambridge researcher was written very succinctly how social media likes are lazy and useless.
“It is a form of pseudo-engagement which absolves us of the guilt of not responding to others’ posts but creates the bare minimum of human connection.”
A couple of years ago I read the book The Circle bu Dave Eggers. He saw back in 2014 how useless likes were. If something doesn’t require effort, how much value can you really place on it?
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👩⚖️ Deepfake charges dropped in cheer mom case
The cheer mom case in PA has gotten a little more interesting. The mom in this case was charged with creating “deepfake” videos in an attempt to shame members of her daughter’s cheerleading squad. But, upon further analysis, the video could be authentic.
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🐈 It's not your cat, it's your work and computer that is trying to kill you
Not only is working long hours pretty bad for you, but your computer is out to get you too.
The cat has no comment.
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🏞 Oregon Trail updated for Apple Arcade to remove historical inaccuracies
Gameloft has released a new version of Oregon Trail for Apple Arcade that removed a lot of historical inaccuracies.
However, you can still die of dysentery.
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👠 Games with high heels and long nails are going viral thanks to TikTok
I love the strange and the weird as much as the next guy and stories about games with high heels and long nails going viral doesn’t make me wonder, it makes me disappointed. How did I not think of it first?!?
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⚰ File this under how to NOT commit murder
A Colorado man thought that committing election fraud by voting for his missing wife was a good idea.
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🛸 Why does it have to be an X-Wing from Rise of Skywalker?!?
The Smithsonian Museum is getting a new exhibit, an X-Wing from Star Wars. Normally, this would be a cause for celebration, except they’re taking a prop from Rise of Skywalker. I had a problem with this model of X-Wing since The Force Awakens, and it has to do with the engines.
In the original series, the X-Wings had four circular engines, and when the wings opened in to the X formation, each engine went with the wing.
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🖥 Displaying full motion video on the Apple //e
Here’s a great hack, displaying full motion video on an Apple //e. Hopefully a version of Sewer Shark will be released soon.
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🗺 How do you create multiple worlds when you only have 128 bytes of RAM
The first game that had an exploration concept that most people played was the game Adventure for the Atari 2600. Warren Robinett’s concept of 30 rooms in 1980 was so revolutionary that the manual had to explain how to navigate between screens. David Crane outdid Adventure with Pitfall and its 255 screens. It is quite amazing.
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🏍 Harley's Electric Motorcycle
This is pretty smart of Harley Davidson. Instead of launching an electric motorcycle under their brand, they are creating a new brand called Livewire. No word yet on facial hair or age requirements.
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🗺 Uploading data by abusing Apple's Find My network
I love a good hack, and this one is great. Here is a project that allows you to upload data using Apple’s Find My network.
Apple’s Find My network is pretty cool. Apple devices can see other Apple devices around them, and upload information to Apple that owner of said devices can use to find their devices. It’s all done securely, and is really cool. This is how Apple’s new AirTags work, since they do not have any sort of wifi or cellular capability.
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🎮 The Nintendo Switch is getting a calculator app
I thought the pinnacle of technological advancement was when the calculator watch was released, but I was wrong.
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🥪 Subway shop operators are claiming that the new sandwiches are a safety hazard
Subway operators are complaining that the newest Sandwiches are a safety hazard. I say, the sandwich business has always been dangerous, you knew what you were getting in to when you signed up.
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🧱 How tall can you build a Lego brick tower?
Researchers started studying Lego bricks to answer the question, “How tall can a Lego tower get?”.
I knew Lego bricks were known for their strength and consistency, but I never imagined they were as strong as they are.
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📚 Eric Carle has passed away
It is with great sadness that I have to pass along the information that Eric Carle, of The Very Hungry Caterpillar fame has passed away. He was 91.
I met him in 2008 during a trip to Connecticut and Massachusetts. We had a spare day and I had the internet on my phone (shout out to the HTC Ozone!) so we started looking for things to do. As we researched, we found that we were very far from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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💾 A disk that boots and Atari, C64, or Apple II
Here is something truly amazing, a boot floppy that will start up an Atari, Commodore C64, or an Apple II. It’s not a flippy, but just one side that boots whatever machine it is inserted.
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🎴 Target is sick and tired of Pokemon cards
Due to the craziness of the Pokemon card market, the retailer Target stopped selling the cards on May 14th.
If you’re still jonesing for some cards, Walmart has your back.
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2025-05-25 Don't forget your towel today!
Today is Towel Day, the day to remember Douglas Adams and the day to carry that most useful item every interstellar hitchhiker needs, a towel.
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🦸♀️Marvel's Eternals teaser trailer
I have no idea what the Eternals even are, so I guess I need to wait for a trailer with a little more substance.
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🤑 In race for bitcoin a company purchased a power plant to mine
I don’t know if this is foolhardy or brilliant, but it’s currently profitable. A private-equity firm bought a power plant to mine bitcoin.
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🚀 A Macintosh Portable ejecting a disk - IN SPACE!
One difference between Macs and other computers with 3.5" disk drives was that the Mac relieved you of the work of pulling the disk out of the drive. The Mac had a powered eject that would gently eject the disk from the machine and basically handing the disk to you.
This works great where you have gravity, but it has some issues in space.
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🎮 Pregnancy test modded to run Doom
The intersection of people playing Doom and needing a pregnancy test is pretty slim, but here we are. First up is a pregnancy test modified to run Doom. This is possible because Digital pregnancy tests are now almost as powerful as the original IBM PC.
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🌌 We already will never be able to see 94% of the universe ever again
TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
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🎬 Dan Aykroyd was in Temple of Doom!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom isn’t one of my favorites, but I’m warmed up to it in recent years. And now I learned that not only did The Temple of Doom give us the PG-13 rating that also Dan Aykroyd had a cameo!
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💻 Updating a Macbook with a Raspberry Pi 4
What do you do when your Macbook has stopped working? How about stuffing a Raspberry Pi 4 inside.
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👩 A 50 year old man in Japan became a famous young woman on Twitter
By using FaceApp, Yasuo Nakajima became a Twitter sensation with tens of thousands of followers. He did it because “no one wants to read what a normal middle-aged man posts”.
If you are reading this, you are one of the “no one”.
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🚀 China successfully lands a rover on Mars
Landing on another planet is an impressive achievement, and China has done it. NASA makes it look easy, but even they are saying that 60% of Mars missions end in failure.
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🧟 Finally, you can officially play Doom and Doom II in widescreen
Too bad there aren’t any widescreen CRT monitors available, so I guess you’ll need to play the new official widescreen version of Doom and Doom II on an LCD.
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🙀 To take care of a rat problem, Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats
Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats to take care of a rat problem. Most cats I see lie around most of the time doing nothing, so I don’t know how effective they’re going to be.
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👨👩👧👧 Facebook's attempt to out do 2020
I gave up on Facebook a while ago, and things like this reinforce my decision.
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💰 Finding Biden's Venmo's account
President Biden mentioned that he had a Venmo account and it took 10 minutes for Buzzfeed to find it. After they found the account, they were able to map out the president’s friends and family.
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👾 The developer of the pixel and creator of the first scanned image passed away last August
Last August Russell Kirsch passed away. His pioneering work in computer graphics led to the development of the first scanned image, one of his son. The research from these early years led to the use of digital images in the computer for years to come.
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👑 Ode to A Knight's Tale
This month is the 20th anniversary of the hidden gem that is A Knight’s Tale, the story of a boy who wants more than the hand he was dealt. It’s a great movie, and if you haven’t seen it, now is as good as time as any. It’s such a fun movie.
Yes, the music of Queen is used in the movie
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🖥️ What it was like buying a computer in the early 90s
Here’s a look at what it was like to buy a computer in 1994. What impressed me most was how much knowledge the sales people had! The footage was filmed in an Incredible Universe, which was a pretty cool store at the time. Too bad they didn’t make it.
And maybe you want a more professional look at buying a computer, this time in 1993?
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🖥 No wonder Apple users are so loud!
The Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters and now you know why. Inverse characters are a nice hack though.
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📣 A mother used deepfakes to harass her daughter's cheerleading squad
A woman in Pennsylvania thought it would be a good idea to make fakes of her daughter’s cheerleading squad in an attempt to embarrass them and force them off of the team.
I question the use of the term deepfake since this sounds more along the line of Photoshopping the images.
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🍟 McDonald's robber couldn't get nuggets and had to settle for a McMuffin
A McDonald’s robber wanted McNuggets on his way out of the restaurant after threatening the employees with a gun. I’m hoping he was going to use some of that sweet cash for a gun since he was too early for McNuggets.
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🦹♂️The instant messaging client Signal turns the tables on hackers
Signal is an instant messaging client that is praised for its privacy and security model, while Cellebrite is a company that hacks smartphones for police organizations. You would think that Cellebrite would put a priority on its own security operations, but that is not the case.
Basically, they pwned the device.
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📼 The inventor of the cassette tape has passed away
One prominent aspect of my high school career was the idea of a mixtape, and the man who made it possible, Lou Ottens has passed away .
The art of the mixtape continued into the 90s, transitioning to CDs. In the transition, I think the mixtape lost something. When you create a tape for someone, the order of the songs is important, but CDs let you jump around, so you lost some of that magic.
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😈 We now know what value Facebook places on your soul, I mean you
Facebook will sell you an Oculus headset for $299, but will require you to have a Facebook account. Now, Facebook will let you buy a headset without requiring a Facebook account, all for the price of $799. And then, after the first year, Facebook twists the knife and charges you an annual fee of $180.
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🦸♂️Spider-Man and other Sony films coming to Disney Plus and Hulu
It won’t be long until all of pop culture will be under the Disney umbrella.
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🤖 Lego has a new R2-D2 model
If anyone wants to get me an early Christmas present, here’s an idea.
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🤸♀️ 3,186 days of dedication
A user posted over at Reddit a picture of his 79 year old dad’s dedication to Wii Fit. Unfortunately, it looks like the moderators removed the post, but I saved the picture:
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👨🚀 Michael Collins of the Apollo 11 mission has passed away
Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died. He has the honor of taking a picture that includes all of humanity, except for himself.
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🚗 Ohio senator attends Zoom call while driving
In another attempt of Ohio attempting to out do Florida, an Ohio state senator attended a government meeting on Zoom… WHILE DRIVING!
I could give him the benefit of the doubt that he attends to phone calls while driving, and he could have done the same thing here. Except he was messing with virtual backgrounds and fiddling with the camera.
And he picked a home office for his background.
At least he had his seat belt on.
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🛠Opera is testing a gaming browser called Opera GX
If you like to tinker with your browser, or want full control over everything your browser is doing, the you will want to check out the Opera GX
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📵 Helping grandma communicate over Telegram
I’m a huge fan of the instant messaging service Telegram, with one of it’s major advantages is how open the service is. @mrcatacroquer was able to use this openness to build a device to let his grandma communicate over Telegram with her grandchildren.
It’s an amazing device, and something that you couldn’t pull off with any other instant messaging service.
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🍟 The McDonad's Ice Cream Machine conspiracy
It’s just not your local McDonald’s that has problems with their ice cream machine. Wired dug into why McDonald’s ice cream machines are always broken, and the answer is quite surprising.
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🌌 Vintage Star Wars is now on Disney Plus
If you can’t get your fill of Star Wars, be sure to check out the Star Wars Vintage Collection on Disney Plus. The opening of Ewoks is so bizarre, I have nothing to compare it to.
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🖥 After hack, Solarwinds rebrands
After being used for the largest hack ever Solarwinds came up with a brilliant solution to their PR nightmare. Changing the name to N-able is a stroke of genius. A totally new Google-able name!
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🤖 USPS Star Wars Droid stamps virtual event
To commemorate the release of the Star Wars Droids Commemorative Forever® Stamps, the United States Postal Service is hosting a virtual dedication ceremony on Facebook and Twitter on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth.
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🤵 There can be only one Josh
Josh Swain got tired of all of the Josh imposters, so he challenged all of the Joshes to a duel.
Luckily, the carnage from that days was recorded:
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👩💻 Look like a hacker
I do a lot of work in the terminal. From now on, if I’m working in front of people I’m going to use the Edex-ui terminal emulater. Look at it, it screams hacker:
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🚐 In case you didn't know, minivans rule!
Yes, I have owned a minivan. And, there is no comparison to an SUV, a minivan is better in all respects. I’m finally finding some kindred spirits!
The minivan is more comfortable, gets better gas mileage, and has more room inside than any SUV. I loved out Town & Country, especially the automatic sliding door. It felt like I was in the future every time I hit the button to open or close it.
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🛫 Adults be flying like children
Aircraft weighing is a thing, because every pound has a cost to move. This works out ok until a computer error calculates the weight of adults as if they were children. Luckily there wasn’t any issue!
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🎬 When Star Wars broke the internet
It was too long ago where technology forced us to have more shared experiences, especially with pop culture. Growing up, there were only three networks, and only three choices of shows during prime time.
Back in 1999 there was another shared experience, when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Teaser Trailer was released on the internet. The limitations of video on the internet were so much of an issue that my sister and I went and saw Wing Commander specifically because the trailer was being shown.
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🧐 I never thought the 90s was extreme
But I do remember some of the comic book superhero names. If you remember them and what to create names of your own, then I have the site for you.
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👽 PSA - Today is Alien Day
Just to let you know, today is Alien Day, so be sure to celebrate the planet LV-426 by watching Alien, Aliens, or sucking on someone’s face.
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🕹 Streaming constantly for 31-days, Ludwig finally stops
On March 14th, Ludwig Ahgren started streaming, stating he was going to stream until no one else subscribed to his account or 31 days, whichever came first. Well, the 31 days came first. It’s just amazing that by the end there were 225,000 people watching and he had 282,000 subs. Let me do the math, at $2.50 per sub, that’s $705,000, per month (if the subscribers don’t cancel). That’s a whole lotta cheddar.
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🎥 Easter egg or thing in the movie?
@tvaziri examines the theory of whether the switch of Twin Pines Mall to Lone Pine Mall in Back to the Future is an Easter egg or thing in the movie.
My definition of Easter Egg is a sly wink or nod for the audience to notice and feel a sense of satisfaction, while a thing in the movie is something that should be in the movie because it makes sense or is required for continuity.
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👽 Predator writers sue for their rights
The screenwriters of ‘Predator’ are suing Disney to regain control of their creation. The first movie was awesome, and the second one kept the party going. After that, it was all downhill. Speaking of the first movie, Shane Black, who played Hawkins, went on to write several Lethal Weapon movies along with Iron Man 3 and The Last Boy Scout.
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👴 Social influencing isn't just for the young
Just when you think you may be too old for the internet game along comes eight senior citizens showing you how it’s done. There’s hope for me yet!
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🖱 Configuring an iPad Pro as the ultimate classic Macintosh
You know that feeling where you want to get a game of Shufflepuck in, but you’re sitting at Starbucks working on your novel? Well, now you can do both. There are two emulators that you can compile and run under iOS.
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🚓 Note to self, wear obnoxious clothes when committing crimes
No one can identify a bank robber because of his obnoxious tieGoogle Translate.
I also learned from Going in Style to also put on fake tattoos.
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🍎 In case you missed it, there was an Apple event
Here’s my summary of the Apple event: Apple showed of some cool stuff that are total wants and not needs. They announced:
AirTags - Track your Crap. Really cool, too expensive. Although I could see parents using these on their kids. I’m sure someone will come out with the kid AirTag collar. The tracking technology is very cool. Multi-colored M1 iMacs - These look pretty awesome, as long as you’re a Jay Leno fan.
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💿 What we lost from Netflix
I will admit I was wrong when Netflix switched to streaming. My own myopia to where things were going caused me to not see the genius in planning for the future. Unfortunately, this future also means the loss of the greatest movie library ever assembled.
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🚁 NASA flies for the first time on Mars
Pretty amazing that NASA has flown a helicopter on another planet!
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👽 Watch Carrie Fisher's screen test for Star Wars
Here is Carrie Fisher’s screen test with Harrison Ford for Star Wars. It’s interesting how different the story is, along with her portrayal Princess Leia. I don’t know what accent she’s trying to do…
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🎬 Rocky Horror played to an empty theater for 54 weeks
In Portland Oregon a pesky pandemic was going to stop the 43 year streak of the showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In college somehow I fell into the crowd that would go to the local showing of RHPS, so I went one time. I didn’t have props, and I hadn’t ever seen the movie, so it was all a new experience with me. At the end, I realized I had seen something truly amazing.
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🎵 Taylor Swift takes back her music
Taylor Swift had lost control of the masters of her first 6 albums, so she took things in to her own hands and have started to re-record her songs. Fearless (Taylor’s Version is a re-recording of her second album.
Good for her, I’m hoping she posts the story over in /r/MaliciousCompliance.
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🖥 One mad man decided to run all macOS, Windows, and Linux on an i5 with 8GB AT ONCE
This goes in the if you have to ask why you’ll never understand department.
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🎮 New speedrun record for Super Mario Bros - breaking the 4:55 barrier
It’s amazing the single-frame control one has to have to beat Super Mario Bros in under 4:55!
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🚀 Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle
April 12th, 2021 was the anniversary of the first space shuttle launch. What amazes me is that it will be 50 years next year since President Nixon officially announced the space shuttle program.
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🎮 Super Mario Bros. NIB, only $660,000!
Sure, NFTs may be making the headlines with insane prices, but in the real world, so are real products. A Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for $660,000. I wish I could find things like that in the bottom of my desk.
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🦸 Here's what happens when you buy a superhero
The Planet Money Podcast went through the process of buying a superhero.
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🛵 Here's the scooter for your grandparents
Are you running out of time and got things to do? Then I have the scooter for you!
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📟 Forget Comic Sans and check out Comic Mono
Most of the fonts we use on computers are proportional, where the letter i takes up less space than a w. A monospace font uses the same amount of space for every charater. This is important when programming. Well, now you can use all the fun of Comic Sans in your editor with Comic Mono.
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🥅 The world's most dangerous piece of playground equipment
I grew up with some pretty dangerous toys, such as lawn jarts and apparently teeter-totters, but they don’t hold a candle to a Giant Stride.
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🐸 George Constanza would be proud
I may be the only person who liked the Battleship movie (Rhianna was amazing BTW), so I’m going to keep an open mind about Peacock’s proposed Frogger game show.
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💻 Why the DOS path character a \
Larry Osterman answers the question, why is the DOS path character ?.
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🎮 Pick up where you left off in the remastered Diablo II
The remastered Diablo II will let you load your original saved games.
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👩👦👦 Forget Florida man, make way for Florida Mom
No, this isn’t an Onion article. A mom in Florida, in a show solidarity with her daughter, beat up another student. The mom came to the school wearing a boxing glove on her left hand. She said she couldn’t remove it because it was super glued.
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💬 Paid channels in Slack and Discord
Everything else has a price tag nowadays, so why not charge people to join channels on your Slack or Discord. I’m not a big fan of this drive toward Discord, but I can see the allure since web forums aren’t very usable.
Too bad there is no money in Usenet News.
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🎶 Vinyl production has finally hit the 21st century
For all you hipsters out there, vinyl record production has finally entered the 21st century.
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👨💻 Zoom Royale
I’m not a big fan of all of the crappy attempts at humor that occur on the internet on April 1st, but this one works:
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🖼️ Instagram lack of privacy is number 1!
If you’re not first, your last, and Instagram is the most invasive app in regards to your privacy. No wonder the founders of Instagram left Facebook.
And, not really a surprise, but Facebook is number 2 on their list.
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🤖 AI has it's chance to shine with its pickup lines
GPT-3 is an AI that is trained for different tasks, and apparent the results are sometimes hilarious!
This is pure gold though:
I’m losing my voice from all the screaming your hotness is causing me to do.
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📧 A Windows 95 Easter Egg in Win 95 Mail surfaces after 25 years
Who says there are no more heroes? A windows hacker and developer who goes by the name Albacore discovered a Windows 95 Easter Egg that was hidden for 25 years.
I want more information about how they found the Easter Egg. Unless they always use The Adams Family or Trading Places character names in their research.
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😫 AT&T Wants You To Be Grateful for 10Mbps upload
According to AT&T, 10Mbps upload is enough for anyone. This could be true if you’re the only person in the house, but what if there are two? Or three? Or someone wants to stream to Twitch.
I preordered Starlink just so I could escape the paltry uploads that Spectrum offers. It will be interesting to see how well it works. Hopefully I’ll find out by the end of summer.
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🧟 Radio Shack rises from the Grave
Radio Shack may come back to haunt us. I wonder if they’ll still need my number to buy batteries… On second thought, who would buy batteries from Radio Shack? I’ve replaced all mine with rechargeables.
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👾 Orion Trail updates Oregon Trail for the Apple II
Orion Trail is a cool looking update to the venerable favorite The Oregon Trail.
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🎥 Great Character Actors
The Vulture has put together a list of the 32 greatest character actors working today. Unfortunately, J. K. Simmons is ineligible for this list because he went and won an Oscar.
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🔬 🥼Modern artists were "intuitive physicists"
The only thing I know about Jackson Pollock is that he might have looked like Ed Harris, but now I know that him and other modern masters also thought like physicists.
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🎥 R rated The Suicide Squad Trailer is out
Although the first movie wasn’t all that great, I still liked it. The trailers for Suicide Squad are some of my favorite trailers of all time!
Not quite as good, but still good:
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🤖 AI is starting to act like a teenager
When AI starts cheating like a teenager do we really need to worry about it enslaving humanity?
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📷 Where did the Sgt. Pepper album photos come from?
This is some excellent research into all of the photos that make up the collage on the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album.
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😎 How not to commit employment fraud
The Office ended in 2013, so maybe they thought that no one would know John Krasinski.
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💼 Who hates the Garamond font? Federal Judges
Federal Judges are tired of lawyers trying to squeeze more pages into briefs with the Garamond font. Which, in my mind is ironic.
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✍ Writing was pretty rough on Douglas Adams
I love the writing of Douglas Adams, but I had no idea how hard it was on him.
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🎶 These 80s remixes are my new favorite thing
I can’t believe I’m just now hearing about The Hood Internet, an artist on Soundcloud. He has a ton of remixes, including an entire set based on each year of the 80s.
1984 has all of the feels:
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Tag: atari
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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Setting up my Atari VCS as my ultimate emulation machine.
It’s currently running Windows 11 and showing the Altirra Atari 8-Bit emulator running Donkey Kong.
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One hour until my Atari Jaguar livestream at 7:30pm EDT
Goz's Streaming Life | GozGeek - The Geek for All of Us
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️Here’s me playing Tempest on my MAME cabinet with my new spinner and new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT
Tempest with a spinner on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT Monitor - YouTube
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Here's what vector gameplay looks like on my new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT Monitor
Playing Asteroids on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT monitor! - YouTube
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I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Treetop Tree House' - Day 8 on the Atari 8-bit Computer - Advent of Code 2022
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Supply Stacks' - Day 5 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2022
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And I just accidentally overwrote all of my work from the last two hours on today's Advent of Code
Looks like I’ll have to try to complete it and tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. 😢
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I just completed 'Camp Cleanup' - Day 4 on my Atari 1200XL - Advent of Code 2022
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Rucksack Reorganization' on my Atari 1200XL with Fastbasic - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Rock Paper Scissors' on my Atari 1200XL - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Calorie Counting' - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 - Yay AtariBasic
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022
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👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
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How I sync live coding from my Atari 1200XL to Github
Here is how I set up my Atari 1200XL to sync to Github automatically while streaming.
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👩💻 How to save the Atari Home Computer Division in 1982
What could have Atari done in 1982 to save themselves?
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Choose your weapon
Which one is your favorite?
(Yes, I’m missing the Wico Boss, but I can’t find mine… There are probably others I’m missing to, let me know!)
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🕹It's an Atari 2600 - in the cloud!
The cloud now contains everything, including the Atari 2600.
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🕹 Check out this 3D take of classic 2600 video games
The video is disappointing only in the fact that it is just showing a demo of the 2600 games. I would love to play a version of River Raid like this.
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🗺 How do you create multiple worlds when you only have 128 bytes of RAM
The first game that had an exploration concept that most people played was the game Adventure for the Atari 2600. Warren Robinett’s concept of 30 rooms in 1980 was so revolutionary that the manual had to explain how to navigate between screens. David Crane outdid Adventure with Pitfall and its 255 screens. It is quite amazing.
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💾 A disk that boots and Atari, C64, or Apple II
Here is something truly amazing, a boot floppy that will start up an Atari, Commodore C64, or an Apple II. It’s not a flippy, but just one side that boots whatever machine it is inserted.
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How I sync live coding from my Atari 1200XL to Github
Here is how I set up my Atari 1200XL to sync to Github automatically while streaming.
Tag: atari8-bit
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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Tag: atari8bit
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I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Treetop Tree House' - Day 8 on the Atari 8-bit Computer - Advent of Code 2022
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Supply Stacks' - Day 5 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2022
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And I just accidentally overwrote all of my work from the last two hours on today's Advent of Code
Looks like I’ll have to try to complete it and tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. 😢
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I just completed 'Camp Cleanup' - Day 4 on my Atari 1200XL - Advent of Code 2022
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Rucksack Reorganization' on my Atari 1200XL with Fastbasic - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Rock Paper Scissors' on my Atari 1200XL - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Calorie Counting' - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 - Yay AtariBasic
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Rock Paper Scissors' on my Atari 1200XL - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 2 - Advent of Code 2022
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One hour until my Atari Jaguar livestream at 7:30pm EDT
Goz's Streaming Life | GozGeek - The Geek for All of Us
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Setting up my Atari VCS as my ultimate emulation machine.
It’s currently running Windows 11 and showing the Altirra Atari 8-Bit emulator running Donkey Kong.
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📚 Eric Carle has passed away
It is with great sadness that I have to pass along the information that Eric Carle, of The Very Hungry Caterpillar fame has passed away. He was 91.
I met him in 2008 during a trip to Connecticut and Massachusetts. We had a spare day and I had the internet on my phone (shout out to the HTC Ozone!) so we started looking for things to do. As we researched, we found that we were very far from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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🖼 Here are some free GREAT looking backgrounds
Finding the perfect background can take hours, but here is a good selection of free backgrounds that you can choose. Each background is available in light and dark, along with a motion background. In Windows, I use the app Desktop Live Wallpapers to set the video as the background. The free version only supports .wmv files, so I used Cloud Convert to convert the movie background to .wmv.
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I'm not going to lie, this looks pretty awesome
BARBIE - Teaser Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube
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I'm not going to lie, this looks pretty awesome
BARBIE - Teaser Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube
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Session aliases with tmux
I use tmux as my screen multiplexer, and in the past, I used control-A d to disconnect and tmux a -d to reattach to the session. This gets cumbersome if I haven’t created a tmux session yet, since tmux a -d will give me an error that no session exists.
Aliases to the rescue To help start sessions, and now name them, I use the following alias:
alias tma="tmux new -ADs" To create a session named main or re-attach to a disconnected session, I can now type tma main.
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💾 Saving bash history across terminals
I’m very comfortable with bash, and I use it a lot with tmux. However, I didn’t like how I would lose command line history across these multiple terminals. After doing a little research, I figured out how to save my history for each terminal. Not only that, but I can also search all of the history. Now I don’t lose commands!
Setting up your .bashrc Here are the relevant lines from my .
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⌨ Update to my Hugo publish.sh script
I ran in to a little issue with my publish.sh script that I use to automatically publish my site with Hugo. I wipe out the public folder and then rebuild the site with Hugo. After that is done, the public folder is synced to the web host, using the --delete option. The problem arises if Hugo encounters an error. The site isn’t rebuilt but the now empty public folder is synced, wiping out the website.
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
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📟 Updates to my autosched script to schedule posts with Hugo
A couple of weeks ago I posted how I schedule posts with Hugo. At the time, I had two scripts. The first one automatically selected the next day to schedule, while the other script let you pick the day. I’ve now combined the two. Here you go, the finished autosched:
#!/bin/bash # Set these to where you want the posts to go and where you # want to archive the posts postsdir="${HOME}/Web/gozgeek.
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💻 Scheduling and automating posts in a Hugo site
I’ve been working on a new little geeking site over at GozGeek.com as a way to share little geeky things I find on the internet and also write about my own geekspirations. Previously I would have created the site in Wordpress, but I wanted to learn Hugo so that’s what I used. One feature I use a lot in Wordpress is the scheduling of publishing posts, so I had to figure out how to do this in Hugo.
Tag: basic
Tag: bitcoin
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⚡ The UK police raided what they thought was a weed farm, but was a totally different kind of farm
One way that police track down illegal weed growers is to monitor energy usage. However, there is another profitable venture with free energy, and that is mining Bitcoin.
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🤑 In race for bitcoin a company purchased a power plant to mine
I don’t know if this is foolhardy or brilliant, but it’s currently profitable. A private-equity firm bought a power plant to mine bitcoin.
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📶 A Comcast customer used bittorrent to download Ubunut and hilarity ensued
A Comcast customer wanted to use Ubuntu and decided to download it over Bittorrent. His reward? A DMCA notice. Just to be clear, Ubuntu is freely distributable, and using Bittorrent to download files is also legal.
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🎲 What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly?
Here are some people answering the important question, What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly. Unfortunately, you’re limited to what the dice rolls, so the chances of this happening in a real life game is pretty slim.
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🔖 New project - my collection of browser bookmarklets
Bookmarklets can be a good substitute for browser extensions.
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🔖 New project - my collection of browser bookmarklets
Bookmarklets can be a good substitute for browser extensions.
Tag: brave
Tag: browser
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🔖 New project - my collection of browser bookmarklets
Bookmarklets can be a good substitute for browser extensions.
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🛠Opera is testing a gaming browser called Opera GX
If you like to tinker with your browser, or want full control over everything your browser is doing, the you will want to check out the Opera GX
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🔖 Goz's Bookmarklets
bookmarklets Here is my collection of Javascript bookmarklets. Sometimes they are better than extensions.
Using the bookmarklets To install the bookmarklet, drag the link to your bookmarks bar (if your bookmarks bar isn’t showing, you’ll want to turn it on first). After the bookmarklet is on your bookmarks bar, you can use it by clicking on it.
Capturing the page title and address of a website Copy Title & URL - from Erik’s Bookmarklets.
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🚗 If you are in Washington DC, go check out the Back to the Future Delorean at the National Mall
As part of the 2021 Cars at the Capital exhibit, the DeLorean from Back to the Future will be on display at the National Mall in Washington DC. You better be quick, it’s only there until Thursday.
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🎶 The Back to the Future musical is on track for August
I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be good, especially with the people involved. Too bad I won’t be in England in August.
Tag: business
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👩🏭 Google may have saved over $1 billion dollars with working from home
With the pandemic shutting down offices, Google projects that it saved over a billion dollars by not having workers in the office. And they made even more money.
Tag: c64
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I guess I need to set up a C64
It’s surprising I don’t remember Grandma owning all of these games. I remember her getting GEOS though.
Tag: car
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Buying the stereo from Crutchfield was really nice, they sent everything I needed to install the new stereo
I had them build the cable, which was a little expensive but worth it.
Tag: cars
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🚗 If you are in Washington DC, go check out the Back to the Future Delorean at the National Mall
As part of the 2021 Cars at the Capital exhibit, the DeLorean from Back to the Future will be on display at the National Mall in Washington DC. You better be quick, it’s only there until Thursday.
Tag: carstereo
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Buying the stereo from Crutchfield was really nice, they sent everything I needed to install the new stereo
I had them build the cable, which was a little expensive but worth it.
Tag: cassettes
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📼 The inventor of the cassette tape has passed away
One prominent aspect of my high school career was the idea of a mixtape, and the man who made it possible, Lou Ottens has passed away .
The art of the mixtape continued into the 90s, transitioning to CDs. In the transition, I think the mixtape lost something. When you create a tape for someone, the order of the songs is important, but CDs let you jump around, so you lost some of that magic.
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Tag: cats
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🐈 It's not your cat, it's your work and computer that is trying to kill you
Not only is working long hours pretty bad for you, but your computer is out to get you too.
The cat has no comment.
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🙀 To take care of a rat problem, Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats
Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats to take care of a rat problem. Most cats I see lie around most of the time doing nothing, so I don’t know how effective they’re going to be.
Tag: catsofmastodon
Tag: caturday
Tag: cheating
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🎮 Here's a look from Vice inside the world's largest video game cheating empire
I didn’t know there were so many posers paying for video game cheats. Vice looks at the cheating group that made $70 million off of PUBG. The only winners in this are the people selling the cheats, because the players playing the game lose on both sides.
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📣 A mother used deepfakes to harass her daughter's cheerleading squad
A woman in Pennsylvania thought it would be a good idea to make fakes of her daughter’s cheerleading squad in an attempt to embarrass them and force them off of the team.
I question the use of the term deepfake since this sounds more along the line of Photoshopping the images.
Tag: chicago
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🙀 To take care of a rat problem, Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats
Chicago is releasing 1,000 cats to take care of a rat problem. Most cats I see lie around most of the time doing nothing, so I don’t know how effective they’re going to be.
Tag: china
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🚀 China successfully lands a rover on Mars
Landing on another planet is an impressive achievement, and China has done it. NASA makes it look easy, but even they are saying that 60% of Mars missions end in failure.
Tag: christmas
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Soma.fm’s Department Store Christmas channel is fantastic
SomaFM: Department Store Christmas: Holiday Elevator Music from a more innocent time. (Specials) Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio
Tag: christmascards
Tag: christmasmusic
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Soma.fm’s Department Store Christmas channel is fantastic
SomaFM: Department Store Christmas: Holiday Elevator Music from a more innocent time. (Specials) Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio
Tag: christmasshopping
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Remember in the 80s when you could only use the computer at home, in only one room?
I’m sending this from a mall food court. Isn’t the future grand?
Tag: chrome
Tag: cisco
Tag: classicmac
Tag: classics
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Roman Holiday 13 word movie review
Excellent movie, an amazing performance by Audrey Hepburn in her first leading role.
Tag: cleaning
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Tag: clocks
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⌚ Why watches use IIII instead of IV
Some of the things I find on the internet are fascinating, and the story behing the use of the Roman numberal IIII instead of IV is pretty cool.
Tag: coax
Tag: comcast
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📶 A Comcast customer used bittorrent to download Ubunut and hilarity ensued
A Comcast customer wanted to use Ubuntu and decided to download it over Bittorrent. His reward? A DMCA notice. Just to be clear, Ubuntu is freely distributable, and using Bittorrent to download files is also legal.
Tag: comedy
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Tag: commodore
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I guess I need to set up a C64
It’s surprising I don’t remember Grandma owning all of these games. I remember her getting GEOS though.
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👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
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💾 A disk that boots and Atari, C64, or Apple II
Here is something truly amazing, a boot floppy that will start up an Atari, Commodore C64, or an Apple II. It’s not a flippy, but just one side that boots whatever machine it is inserted.
Tag: computers
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🖥️ What it was like buying a computer in the early 90s
Here’s a look at what it was like to buy a computer in 1994. What impressed me most was how much knowledge the sales people had! The footage was filmed in an Incredible Universe, which was a pretty cool store at the time. Too bad they didn’t make it.
And maybe you want a more professional look at buying a computer, this time in 1993?
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We watched the filmed stage production of Spirited Away last night and was blown away
It was an amazing production, I wish I could see it live even if I don’t understand Japanese. This is the only picture I took, I wanted to watch it.
Tag: coupledaysoff
Tag: covid19
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🦠 What I learned after 5 days of isolation
Right before Thanksgiving I tested positive for the ‘Vid, which meant I received the opportunity to isolate in my basement for 5 days. Here’s what I learned.
Tag: crime
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🍟 McDonald's robber couldn't get nuggets and had to settle for a McMuffin
A McDonald’s robber wanted McNuggets on his way out of the restaurant after threatening the employees with a gun. I’m hoping he was going to use some of that sweet cash for a gun since he was too early for McNuggets.
Tag: crt
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📺 Building a cyberdeck with a mini CRT
I’m really fascinated with cyberdeck builds, and this one built with a mini tv and Colecovision control is pretty awesome.
Tag: cryptocurrency
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🤑 In race for bitcoin a company purchased a power plant to mine
I don’t know if this is foolhardy or brilliant, but it’s currently profitable. A private-equity firm bought a power plant to mine bitcoin.
Tag: cyberdeck
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📺 Building a cyberdeck with a mini CRT
I’m really fascinated with cyberdeck builds, and this one built with a mini tv and Colecovision control is pretty awesome.
Tag: darkmode
Tag: database
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Who wants to make the bet that the FAA database is an Excel spreadsheet?
Created 15 years ago by someone who left 13 years ago.
Tag: davidhasselhoff
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📺 Knight Rider reboot confirmed?
David Hasselhoff confirms that the Knight Rider reboot is happening.
Could Knight Rider work today? When it was released, computers were mysterious boxes used by few, and cars were very important in most people’s lives. Today, computers are ubiquitous and cars are viewed more as a tool and not a source of identity. I’m hoping something cool can come of it though.
Tag: dc
Tag: deepfake
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🎭 Using deepfake technology for movie dubs
This is a really cool use of deepfake technology, blending the actor’s and dubber’s facial expersions to make a great looking dubbed film. There are so many foreign language films that may be able to find a broader audience with this technology.
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👩⚖️ Deepfake charges dropped in cheer mom case
The cheer mom case in PA has gotten a little more interesting. The mom in this case was charged with creating “deepfake” videos in an attempt to shame members of her daughter’s cheerleading squad. But, upon further analysis, the video could be authentic.
Tag: dev
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Creating an editorial calendar with a bash script
Here’s a funky little script to show you an editorial calendar in the current directory with which Markdown file are scheduled for what days.
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How I sync live coding from my Atari 1200XL to Github
Here is how I set up my Atari 1200XL to sync to Github automatically while streaming.
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📹 Saving social media videos to your phone
This is an overkill solution to saving social media videos to my iPhone.
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📱 Fixing a Kindle Fire tablet stuck at the boot screen
My Kindle Fire 7 (2015) wouldn’t boot, so here’s how I fixed it.
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Session aliases with tmux
I use tmux as my screen multiplexer, and in the past, I used control-A d to disconnect and tmux a -d to reattach to the session. This gets cumbersome if I haven’t created a tmux session yet, since tmux a -d will give me an error that no session exists.
Aliases to the rescue To help start sessions, and now name them, I use the following alias:
alias tma="tmux new -ADs" To create a session named main or re-attach to a disconnected session, I can now type tma main.
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🖼 Resize and re-compress your photos with squoosh.app
Have you needed to quickly resize or recompress a picture and don’t want to wait for Affinity Photo or Photoshop to load? Then do I have a web app for you!
Squoosh is in the house Squoosh is a Google project that was created to highlight offline apps in the browser. The site allows you to not only convert photos to other formats, but to also resize and reduce the number of colors in a photo.
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💻 My favorite Windows apps
This past week I bought a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Nano (say that five times fast). It’s been awhile since I have set up a new machine, so I started to document setting this one up. I’m surprised how quickly I had it set up, no wonder I haven’t automated it.
In no particular order, here are the apps I use regularly.
Browsers Windows comes with Edge installed, but I also install Google Chrome, Brave, and Firefox.
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✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I believe that there are as many ways to manages tasks as there are stars in the sky.
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💾 Saving bash history across terminals
I’m very comfortable with bash, and I use it a lot with tmux. However, I didn’t like how I would lose command line history across these multiple terminals. After doing a little research, I figured out how to save my history for each terminal. Not only that, but I can also search all of the history. Now I don’t lose commands!
Setting up your .bashrc Here are the relevant lines from my .
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✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI My notes are not fancy This article can be condensed to “all of my notes are in my Notes folder”.
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💬 Using Telegram for notes, bookmarks, and more
Photo by Adem AY on Unsplash
It’s no secret that Telegram is my favorite instant messaging platform. The advantages are many, with the biggest being its cross-platformness (it’s a word now, I just used it). I can run Telegram on any of my devices and computers, easily sharing information, pictures, and other multimedia.
Telegram offers unlimited storage, although the individual file size is limited to 2GB. More than enough space for bookmarks, notes, pictures, and videos that I may come across in my internet travels.
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📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI A journal is a great way to remember things that happen, or to take note of something that may be useful in the future.
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🔒 Encryption and storage made easy with Keybase
Are you looking for a way to securely store and share information? Then check out Keybase!
What is Keybase? Keybase is a messaging client with encryption, along with encrypted storage and encrypted sharing. By using public key cryptography, all data is secured and can’t be read by anyone, include Keybase themselves. Data in this context means your 1:1 chats, group chats, files, etc. are securely stored.
The Keybase website also lets you encrypt information for Keybase users, allowing someone to send me information that only I can read.
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🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI After you start using one folder with your plain text notes and lists, that’s all great until you want to work on them from multiple devices.
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⌨ Update to my Hugo publish.sh script
I ran in to a little issue with my publish.sh script that I use to automatically publish my site with Hugo. I wipe out the public folder and then rebuild the site with Hugo. After that is done, the public folder is synced to the web host, using the --delete option. The problem arises if Hugo encounters an error. The site isn’t rebuilt but the now empty public folder is synced, wiping out the website.
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
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📟 Updates to my autosched script to schedule posts with Hugo
A couple of weeks ago I posted how I schedule posts with Hugo. At the time, I had two scripts. The first one automatically selected the next day to schedule, while the other script let you pick the day. I’ve now combined the two. Here you go, the finished autosched:
#!/bin/bash # Set these to where you want the posts to go and where you # want to archive the posts postsdir="${HOME}/Web/gozgeek.
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The Empire really strikes back and more - This Geek in Review for 17 Jul 2020
The 80s are back! We are living in strange times, especially when The Empire Strikes Back and Ghostbusters top the box office charts almost over 35 years after their initial release. I wish it didn’t take a pandemic for some of these great movies to get some theater screen time.
In other 80s movie news comes the story behind The Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance in Beverly Hills Cop. The song was originally released in 1983, but didn’t become popular until it was attached to Beverly Hills Cop.
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👩🔬 Fortran forever
First it was COBOL programmers that were needed and now we find out that Fortran programmers are also needed.
Too bad I left my COBOL skills back in the 80s, I could be sitting pretty right now.
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Tag: disney
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💫 My favorite news from Star Wars Celebration 2022
More characters from Star Wars Rebels and season 2 of The Bad Batch! AWESOME!
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📺 Why did so many 90s sitcoms have a Disney World episode?
If you watched sitcoms in the 90s, you inevitably watched an episode where the characters traveled to Disney World and hilarity ensued. But why? The CEO at the time, Michael Eisner, invited any and all sitcoms to pitch an idea. If it was approved, they could film at Disney World. One notable sitcom at the time, Friends, did not get their story approved. Apparently, Joey hooking up with Cinderella was a little to risque for Eisner.
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🦸♂️Spider-Man and other Sony films coming to Disney Plus and Hulu
It won’t be long until all of pop culture will be under the Disney umbrella.
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📺 Why did so many 90s sitcoms have a Disney World episode?
If you watched sitcoms in the 90s, you inevitably watched an episode where the characters traveled to Disney World and hilarity ensued. But why? The CEO at the time, Michael Eisner, invited any and all sitcoms to pitch an idea. If it was approved, they could film at Disney World. One notable sitcom at the time, Friends, did not get their story approved. Apparently, Joey hooking up with Cinderella was a little to risque for Eisner.
Tag: dnd
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👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Tag: doireallyneedanotherhobby
Tag: dominoes
Tag: dontknowwhyiboughtthissongfirst
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of the iTunes music store
let’s listen to the first song I ever purchased, Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk
Tag: doom
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🎮 Pregnancy test modded to run Doom
The intersection of people playing Doom and needing a pregnancy test is pretty slim, but here we are. First up is a pregnancy test modified to run Doom. This is possible because Digital pregnancy tests are now almost as powerful as the original IBM PC.
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🧟 Finally, you can officially play Doom and Doom II in widescreen
Too bad there aren’t any widescreen CRT monitors available, so I guess you’ll need to play the new official widescreen version of Doom and Doom II on an LCD.
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💬 Run an IRC server under DOS on any PC with an 8088 or better CPU
Sure, Microsoft ushered in 2002 by declaring MS-DOS 6.22 was obsolete, but that doesn’t stop people from using it. And now you can run the IRC server ngircd under DOS on just about any old PC compatible. For the full affect you’ll want a network card.
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2025-05-25 Don't forget your towel today!
Today is Towel Day, the day to remember Douglas Adams and the day to carry that most useful item every interstellar hitchhiker needs, a towel.
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Tag: employment
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👨🏭 Working two remote jobs is possible
You’ve probably heard about people working two remote jobs, which means making two full-time salaries during the work week. It’s not a joke, people are able to work two full-time jobs at the same time. Too bad I’m no where near organized enough to pull this off.
Tag: emulators
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⌨ I heard you like emulators in your games
Zero_page on Twitter is either crazy or a genius for creating a working Apple II in the Unity game engine.
Tag: encryption
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🔒 Encryption and storage made easy with Keybase
Are you looking for a way to securely store and share information? Then check out Keybase!
What is Keybase? Keybase is a messaging client with encryption, along with encrypted storage and encrypted sharing. By using public key cryptography, all data is secured and can’t be read by anyone, include Keybase themselves. Data in this context means your 1:1 chats, group chats, files, etc. are securely stored.
The Keybase website also lets you encrypt information for Keybase users, allowing someone to send me information that only I can read.
Tag: endoftimes
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We're putting in new copiers on teacher work day.
You would think I just told the teachers that the copiers will never work again. All I said was don’t plan on printing on Tuesday…
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📝 Expand text with my favorite tool, Espanso!
Using automatic text expansion with Espanso is an easy way to be very productive
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
Tag: excel
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Who wants to make the bet that the FAA database is an Excel spreadsheet?
Created 15 years ago by someone who left 13 years ago.
Tag: exercise
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🤸♀️ 3,186 days of dedication
A user posted over at Reddit a picture of his 79 year old dad’s dedication to Wii Fit. Unfortunately, it looks like the moderators removed the post, but I saved the picture:
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😈 Police are called in to break up an exorcism at a Home Depot
Home Depot can supply everything, including exorcisms.
Tag: faa
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Who wants to make the bet that the FAA database is an Excel spreadsheet?
Created 15 years ago by someone who left 13 years ago.
Tag: faceapp
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👩 A 50 year old man in Japan became a famous young woman on Twitter
By using FaceApp, Yasuo Nakajima became a Twitter sensation with tens of thousands of followers. He did it because “no one wants to read what a normal middle-aged man posts”.
If you are reading this, you are one of the “no one”.
Tag: facebook
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The iconic iMac G4 turns 20 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-14
The iconic iMac G4 turns 20, Facebook is still creepin’ on you, and more.
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😱 A Facebook of any other name - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-05
All your virtual worlds belong to Facebook… I mean, Meta.
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🗣️ Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week This Geek in Review for 2021-10-08
Facebook went down, putting Whatsapp, Instagram, and more out of commission. And then to twist the knife, a Facebook whistleblower explained to congress how evil Facebook has become. My geek travels went from Mick Jagger to cheating on tests to wedding photos taken with the Gameboy camera.
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🤼 Paying $299 for Facebook support
I don’t know what’s worse. Using Facebook or buying a $299 VR headset so you can get support from Facebook.
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👨👩👧👧 Facebook's attempt to out do 2020
I gave up on Facebook a while ago, and things like this reinforce my decision.
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😈 We now know what value Facebook places on your soul, I mean you
Facebook will sell you an Oculus headset for $299, but will require you to have a Facebook account. Now, Facebook will let you buy a headset without requiring a Facebook account, all for the price of $799. And then, after the first year, Facebook twists the knife and charges you an annual fee of $180.
Tag: fastbasic
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I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Supply Stacks' - Day 5 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2022
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And I just accidentally overwrote all of my work from the last two hours on today's Advent of Code
Looks like I’ll have to try to complete it and tomorrow’s problems tomorrow. 😢
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I just completed 'Camp Cleanup' - Day 4 on my Atari 1200XL - Advent of Code 2022
Day 4 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Rucksack Reorganization' on my Atari 1200XL with Fastbasic - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2022
Tag: fastfood
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🌮 Taco Bell hit by nationwide shortages
Is your Taco Bell closing early like mine is? It’s because Taco Bell is having a nationwide shortage of ingredients.
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🍟 The McDonad's Ice Cream Machine conspiracy
It’s just not your local McDonald’s that has problems with their ice cream machine. Wired dug into why McDonald’s ice cream machines are always broken, and the answer is quite surprising.
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👩💻 More Meta shenanigans, alternative uses for the Apple Watch, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-08
Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.
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Tag: fire
Tag: firefox
Tag: firetablets
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Cheap Fire Tablets Will Soon Be Great Game Emulators – Review Geek
Good news for retro game players, Retroarch is coming to the Amazon App Store. You’ll be able to play all of your retro goodness without having to sideload Retroarch.
I’ve got an old 7" tablet that I need to try this out on!
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Tag: flashcards
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🎴 US Soldiers were cramming for tests using online flashcard apps, and were unwittingly leaking nuclear info
Here’s something you don’t think of when using flashcard apps, the fact that most card decks are automatically set to public. And if they contain nuclear secrets, that can be a problem.
Tag: florida
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🐍 Florida celebrates Whacking Day
Today I learned that Florida celebrates Whacking Day, except their day lasts 10.
No word yet on how Lisa or Barry White feel about it.
Tag: food
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🥪 Subway shop operators are claiming that the new sandwiches are a safety hazard
Subway operators are complaining that the newest Sandwiches are a safety hazard. I say, the sandwich business has always been dangerous, you knew what you were getting in to when you signed up.
Tag: foodcourt
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Remember in the 80s when you could only use the computer at home, in only one room?
I’m sending this from a mall food court. Isn’t the future grand?
Tag: fortran
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👩🔬 Fortran forever
First it was COBOL programmers that were needed and now we find out that Fortran programmers are also needed.
Too bad I left my COBOL skills back in the 80s, I could be sitting pretty right now.
Tag: g4macmini
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
Tag: galaga
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How to access Pac-Man or the speed up hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets
This post is mostly for myself so I can quickly lookup the joystick sequence to enable Pac-Man or use the speedup hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets. It seems like this is the most common cabinet, I see it the most out in the wild.
Play Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man started out as a ROM hack of the original Pac-Man board, and because of that, Ms. Pac-Man ran on the same hardware as the Pac-Man cabinets.
Tag: gamecom
Tag: gamecube
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🎮 The Nintendo Gamecube is now 20 years old!
The Nintendo Gamecube was released in Japan on September 14, 2001. I can’t remember when I actually bought one, but I loved playing through Metroid Prime. One of the few games I’ve actually completed, and, without going to any playthrough on the internet.
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🐒 Super Monkey Ball is being remastered
One of the greatest party games for the Gamecube is being remastered, Super Monkey Ball. The game will include my favorite, Super Monkey Ball 2 along with local only multiplayer modes. And you know what, I’m glad it’s local only. That’s the only way to play it multiplayer.
Tag: geek
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📲 Princess Leia's dress, Atari 2600 Myst, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-30
Princess Leia’s dress, a Myst demake on the Atari 2600, and more - This Geek In Review
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🎮 Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-23
Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more.
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📚 Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan's Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan’s Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
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🔲 A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-09
A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more
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✨ Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-02
Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more.
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🧑💻 The Beepberry, remembering 'V', Mario Kart LAN parties, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-26
🧑<200d>💻 The Beepberry, remembering ‘V’, Mario Kart LAN parties, and more
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☄️ A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-19
A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more
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💲 The economics of Emperor Palpatine's Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-12
The economics of Emperor Palpatine’s Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more
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📷 New driver for a '99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-05
New driver for a ‘99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more
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💥 Comic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
omic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
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🛸 SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
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😱 Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-14
Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more.
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💫 Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-07
Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more
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🎉 Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-31
Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news
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🎮 All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-24
All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more,
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💾 Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-17
Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more.
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🕰 Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-10
Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more
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🧟♀️ Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-03
Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more
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🦸♂️ Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
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🔭 Da Vinci's gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-17
Da Vinci’s gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set
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💾 What's a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-10
What’s a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more.
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📽 Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
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🧱 Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-27
Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more.
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🧙♂️ D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
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🧙♀️ New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-13
New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more
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🖥 3D printed '50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
3D printed ’50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
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📱 Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-30
Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12- 30
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💎 Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-23
Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more,
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💾 Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
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🎞 A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
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🖥 macOS on a Wii, Gamecube's hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-02
macOS on a Wii, Gamecube’s hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-30
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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🌟 Finding love at the Star Wars premiere, learning about the Scream Test, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-25
Finding love at the Star Wars premiere, learning about the Scream Test, and more
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👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
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🤕 Die in the game and this VR headset will kill you, Raspberry Pi projects, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-11
Die in the game and this VR headset will kill you, Raspberry Pi projects, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-11
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🎾 No more Lego Mindstorms, world's fastest shoes, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-04
No more Lego Mindstorms, world’s fastest shoes, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-04
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🎹 The C64 Accordian, James Gunn leading DC Studios, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-28
The C64 Accordian, James Gunn leading DC Studios, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-28
Tag: geekphotos
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-06-14
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-06-07
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-05-31
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-05-24
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-05-17
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-05-10
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-05-03
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-04-26
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-04-12
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-04-05
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-03-22
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-03-15
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-03-08
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-02-22
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-02-15
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-02-08
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-02-01
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-01-25
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-01-18
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-01-11
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2023-01-04
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-12-28
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-12-21
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photo of the week for 2022-12-14
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-12-07
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-30
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-23
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-16
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-09
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-26
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-19
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-12
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-10-05
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
Tag: genx
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I can still identify at least 90% of the singers
I bought the album just for the Huey Lewis song.
Tag: ghostbusters
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👻 New Ghostbusters - Afterlife trailer has dropped!!
I was a little excited before, now I’m very excited.
Tag: git
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Auto syncing git based Obsidian vault
My notes have been in a git repo for almost 10 years and this has worked pretty well for me, especially since I worked almost exclusively from the command line with VIM. However, a few months ago I added Obsidian to the mix, which meant I had to re-think how to sync my notes git repo.
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How I sync live coding from my Atari 1200XL to Github
Here is how I set up my Atari 1200XL to sync to Github automatically while streaming.
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🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI After you start using one folder with your plain text notes and lists, that’s all great until you want to work on them from multiple devices.
Tag: github
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⌨Heads up, Github changed their RSA key this morning
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
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How I sync live coding from my Atari 1200XL to Github
Here is how I set up my Atari 1200XL to sync to Github automatically while streaming.
Tag: glassonion
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Glass Onion review in 13 words
Long, but builds to an almost satisfying conclusion. Worth it though, go watch!
Tag: google
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👩🏭 Google may have saved over $1 billion dollars with working from home
With the pandemic shutting down offices, Google projects that it saved over a billion dollars by not having workers in the office. And they made even more money.
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📶 Google is experimenting with RSS... Again.
Killing off Google Reader just wasn’t enough for Google, now they are twisting the knife by experimenting with adding RSS feeds to the Android version of Chrome.
My current favorite RSS reader is Inoreader, it’s what I use to follow sites and people that I’m interested in, chronologically. I don’t miss stories because an algorithm thought I wasn’t interested.
Tag: googlesearch
Tag: googletv
Tag: guardiansofthegalaxy
Tag: hack
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🗺 Uploading data by abusing Apple's Find My network
I love a good hack, and this one is great. Here is a project that allows you to upload data using Apple’s Find My network.
Apple’s Find My network is pretty cool. Apple devices can see other Apple devices around them, and upload information to Apple that owner of said devices can use to find their devices. It’s all done securely, and is really cool. This is how Apple’s new AirTags work, since they do not have any sort of wifi or cellular capability.
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🦹♂️The instant messaging client Signal turns the tables on hackers
Signal is an instant messaging client that is praised for its privacy and security model, while Cellebrite is a company that hacks smartphones for police organizations. You would think that Cellebrite would put a priority on its own security operations, but that is not the case.
Basically, they pwned the device.
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🖥 After hack, Solarwinds rebrands
After being used for the largest hack ever Solarwinds came up with a brilliant solution to their PR nightmare. Changing the name to N-able is a stroke of genius. A totally new Google-able name!
Tag: harddrive
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Finally installed my 14T drive in my desktop.
I can now install all of the Epic/GoG/Steam sales/free games I’ve acquired this month.
Tag: harleydavidson
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🏍 Harley's Electric Motorcycle
This is pretty smart of Harley Davidson. Instead of launching an electric motorcycle under their brand, they are creating a new brand called Livewire. No word yet on facial hair or age requirements.
Tag: hashover
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Adding commments to my static web site with hashover
One of my biggest issues with running a static website is that having comments on posts isn’t very straightforward. Thankfully, Hashover exists.
Tag: haveyouplayedataritoday
Tag: hddvd
Tag: health
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🐈 It's not your cat, it's your work and computer that is trying to kill you
Not only is working long hours pretty bad for you, but your computer is out to get you too.
The cat has no comment.
Tag: helloworld
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Hello World
“I start this journey not because of a dearth of Internet content, but to tell stories.”
And one story is, let the geek out!
I believe everyone has a geek inside of them waiting to get out. For me, it’s technology and the 80s, but for someone else it may be football, wedding dresses, or even washing machines.
This website is all about getting your geek on, with Goz as your guide.
Tag: hobby
Tag: houses
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🏠 Here's a house for you in Dallas
If you ever wanted to live in a data center, then I have the house for you. There is one bathroom, but you’re on your own for a bedroom.
Tag: hueylewisandthenews
Tag: hugo
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Adding commments to my static web site with hashover
One of my biggest issues with running a static website is that having comments on posts isn’t very straightforward. Thankfully, Hashover exists.
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⌨ Update to my Hugo publish.sh script
I ran in to a little issue with my publish.sh script that I use to automatically publish my site with Hugo. I wipe out the public folder and then rebuild the site with Hugo. After that is done, the public folder is synced to the web host, using the --delete option. The problem arises if Hugo encounters an error. The site isn’t rebuilt but the now empty public folder is synced, wiping out the website.
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📟 Updates to my autosched script to schedule posts with Hugo
A couple of weeks ago I posted how I schedule posts with Hugo. At the time, I had two scripts. The first one automatically selected the next day to schedule, while the other script let you pick the day. I’ve now combined the two. Here you go, the finished autosched:
#!/bin/bash # Set these to where you want the posts to go and where you # want to archive the posts postsdir="${HOME}/Web/gozgeek.
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💻 Scheduling and automating posts in a Hugo site
I’ve been working on a new little geeking site over at GozGeek.com as a way to share little geeky things I find on the internet and also write about my own geekspirations. Previously I would have created the site in Wordpress, but I wanted to learn Hugo so that’s what I used. One feature I use a lot in Wordpress is the scheduling of publishing posts, so I had to figure out how to do this in Hugo.
Tag: hulu
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🦸♂️Spider-Man and other Sony films coming to Disney Plus and Hulu
It won’t be long until all of pop culture will be under the Disney umbrella.
Tag: idsoftware
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⚔ Quake turns 25
Quake turned 25 this year, and what a ground breaking game it was (and still is). One of my favorite features was that you could put any music CD in your computer and use that music as the background music. Many a days were spent listening to Junior Brown as I played Quake.
Tag: imac
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🖥 Why the M1 iMac still has a chin
At the Apple event, Apple brought out the multi-colored iMacs. I’m sure these will be a big hit with social influencers and YouTubers. The general consensus is that they look great, except for one thing. The chin. Apple could have install the computer behind the screen and eliminated the chin at the expense of making the computer thicker. Heaven forbid we have a Mac that is thicc. But, I have a theory…
Tag: incognito
Tag: indianajones
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🎥 Raiders at 40
A couple of retrospectives on one of the greatest movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Enduring Myths of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Spielberg Revisit Raiders of the Lost Ark – The Hollywood Reporter.
For some reason I don’t remember seeing it in the theater, although I know I must have. It ran for 10 months, so I figure I saw it at least a couple of times.
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🎬 Dan Aykroyd was in Temple of Doom!
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom isn’t one of my favorites, but I’m warmed up to it in recent years. And now I learned that not only did The Temple of Doom give us the PG-13 rating that also Dan Aykroyd had a cameo!
Tag: indieweb
Tag: internetexplorer
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👏 Ding, dong, Internet Explorer is (almost) dead
First we have the death of Adobe Flash and hot on its heels is the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Well, it’s only on life support, the plug will be pulled in June of 2022.
Does anyone still run IE?
Tag: inventor
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👾 The developer of the pixel and creator of the first scanned image passed away last August
Last August Russell Kirsch passed away. His pioneering work in computer graphics led to the development of the first scanned image, one of his son. The research from these early years led to the use of digital images in the computer for years to come.
Tag: invincible
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Invincible Review: An Engaging and Gripping Animated Super Hero Show
I just finished Invincible on Amazon Prime Video and I am blown away. Although the gore may turn off some viewers, it made the whole idea of super heroes a little more realistic, much like Amazon Prime Video The Boys does.
Tag: ios
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iOS shortcuts can run commands over SSH
Running commands over SSH is probably my most used iOS Shortcuts step.
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📹 Saving social media videos to your phone
This is an overkill solution to saving social media videos to my iPhone.
Tag: iphone
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📹 Saving social media videos to your phone
This is an overkill solution to saving social media videos to my iPhone.
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📱 The $17,000 iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-29
That fancy new smartphone is more expensive than you may have realized.
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📱 Relive iOS 4 on your current iPhone
If you are feeling nostalgic for iOS 4, there is an app for that.
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📶 iPhone bug breaks Wifi
There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.
Tag: irc
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💬 Run an IRC server under DOS on any PC with an 8088 or better CPU
Sure, Microsoft ushered in 2002 by declaring MS-DOS 6.22 was obsolete, but that doesn’t stop people from using it. And now you can run the IRC server ngircd under DOS on just about any old PC compatible. For the full affect you’ll want a network card.
Tag: isolation
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🦠 What I learned after 5 days of isolation
Right before Thanksgiving I tested positive for the ‘Vid, which meant I received the opportunity to isolate in my basement for 5 days. Here’s what I learned.
Tag: itooliketolivedangerously
Tag: itsonlikedonkeykong
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Setting up my Atari VCS as my ultimate emulation machine.
It’s currently running Windows 11 and showing the Altirra Atari 8-Bit emulator running Donkey Kong.
Tag: itunes
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of the iTunes music store
let’s listen to the first song I ever purchased, Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk
Tag: javascript
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🔖 New project - my collection of browser bookmarklets
Bookmarklets can be a good substitute for browser extensions.
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🔖 Goz's Bookmarklets
bookmarklets Here is my collection of Javascript bookmarklets. Sometimes they are better than extensions.
Using the bookmarklets To install the bookmarklet, drag the link to your bookmarks bar (if your bookmarks bar isn’t showing, you’ll want to turn it on first). After the bookmarklet is on your bookmarks bar, you can use it by clicking on it.
Capturing the page title and address of a website Copy Title & URL - from Erik’s Bookmarklets.
Tag: jeans
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When the manager doesn’t know math I win!
Buy one pair and get the second pair for 50% doesn’t work like you think it does Mr. Manager.
Tag: journal
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📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI A journal is a great way to remember things that happen, or to take note of something that may be useful in the future.
Tag: juniorbrown
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⚔ Quake turns 25
Quake turned 25 this year, and what a ground breaking game it was (and still is). One of my favorite features was that you could put any music CD in your computer and use that music as the background music. Many a days were spent listening to Junior Brown as I played Quake.
Tag: juststop
Tag: karateka
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🐣 Karateka Easter egg
I guess this is common knowledge, but you can boot Karateka for Apple II upside down. I missed it because I played the game on the technically superior Atari 800XL.
Tag: keybase
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🔒 Encryption and storage made easy with Keybase
Are you looking for a way to securely store and share information? Then check out Keybase!
What is Keybase? Keybase is a messaging client with encryption, along with encrypted storage and encrypted sharing. By using public key cryptography, all data is secured and can’t be read by anyone, include Keybase themselves. Data in this context means your 1:1 chats, group chats, files, etc. are securely stored.
The Keybase website also lets you encrypt information for Keybase users, allowing someone to send me information that only I can read.
Tag: kindle
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📱 Fixing a Kindle Fire tablet stuck at the boot screen
My Kindle Fire 7 (2015) wouldn’t boot, so here’s how I fixed it.
Tag: kindlefire
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📱 Fixing a Kindle Fire tablet stuck at the boot screen
My Kindle Fire 7 (2015) wouldn’t boot, so here’s how I fixed it.
Tag: knighrider
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📺 Knight Rider reboot confirmed?
David Hasselhoff confirms that the Knight Rider reboot is happening.
Could Knight Rider work today? When it was released, computers were mysterious boxes used by few, and cars were very important in most people’s lives. Today, computers are ubiquitous and cars are viewed more as a tool and not a source of identity. I’m hoping something cool can come of it though.
Tag: laserdisc
Tag: law
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⚰ File this under how to NOT commit murder
A Colorado man thought that committing election fraud by voting for his missing wife was a good idea.
Tag: lego
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🧱 How tall can you build a Lego brick tower?
Researchers started studying Lego bricks to answer the question, “How tall can a Lego tower get?”.
I knew Lego bricks were known for their strength and consistency, but I never imagined they were as strong as they are.
Tag: lightgun
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👾 A genius has built a way to play 2600 Laser Blaster with a light gun
I sit around thinking about outlandish things that would be cool, but here is someone making their dreams reality. Nickbild built a way to play Laser Blaster with a light gun.
Tag: lightsaber
Tag: linux
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🍽 Here's a microwave that runs Linux
Here’s a microwave that runs Linux for voice control. It’s only a matter of time before Doom is ported to it.
Also, one step closer to getting Linux on my toaster.
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💾 Linux on a single floppy, again
Remember in the past when you could fit a bootable copy of Linux on to one single floppy drive? Well, remember no more because you can now do it again with a modern Linux kernel.
Tag: loki
Tag: lovedthebanter
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The Marvels 13 Word Review
Great movie with an outstanding cast, quotes, humor that felt natural unlike Quantumania.
Tag: m3gan
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M3GAN 13 word review
It’s predictable but with excellent execution. A great way to spend an afternoon.
Tag: mac
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
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🔪 Relive the glory days of the Mac After Dark screen savers
Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.
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⌚ How to get 67% more speed with external drives on your M1 Mac
OWC found out that you can get get up to 67% faster Thunderbolt drive performance with your M1 Mac simply by using an external Thunderbolt display.
Tag: macbook
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⌨ Building a Macbook with a mechanical keyboard
Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.
Tag: macintosh
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🚀 A Macintosh Portable ejecting a disk - IN SPACE!
One difference between Macs and other computers with 3.5" disk drives was that the Mac relieved you of the work of pulling the disk out of the drive. The Mac had a powered eject that would gently eject the disk from the machine and basically handing the disk to you.
This works great where you have gravity, but it has some issues in space.
Tag: macmini
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
Tag: macppc
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
Tag: mame
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️Here’s me playing Tempest on my MAME cabinet with my new spinner and new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT
Tempest with a spinner on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT Monitor - YouTube
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I finally got around to upgrading my X-Arcade joystick to USB
I’ve only been sitting on the kit for 6 years…
Tag: mar10day
Tag: marchintosh
Tag: mario
Tag: markdown
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
Tag: mars
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🚀 China successfully lands a rover on Mars
Landing on another planet is an impressive achievement, and China has done it. NASA makes it look easy, but even they are saying that 60% of Mars missions end in failure.
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The Marvels 13 Word Review
Great movie with an outstanding cast, quotes, humor that felt natural unlike Quantumania.
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🦸♀️Marvel's Eternals teaser trailer
I have no idea what the Eternals even are, so I guess I need to wait for a trailer with a little more substance.
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🎶 The Seinfeld music mashup that you didn't know you needed
When I lose faith in what the internet can produce, I’m going to come back to this video.
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Tag: mcdonalds
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🍟 McDonald's robber couldn't get nuggets and had to settle for a McMuffin
A McDonald’s robber wanted McNuggets on his way out of the restaurant after threatening the employees with a gun. I’m hoping he was going to use some of that sweet cash for a gun since he was too early for McNuggets.
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⌨ Building a Macbook with a mechanical keyboard
Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.
Tag: media
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🥋 Mortal Kombat was a flawless victory
This past Sunday, after 14 months of no theaters, I ventured to my first movie. Mortal Kombat was showing. I was a big fan of the first one, and even though this one doesn’t have the storied production of the first I still wanted to see it, and I was not disappointed. After surviving Battlefield Earth I can watch just about anything.
I’m not writing a review, there are for more of those out there and written better than anything I could commit to the keyboard, so this is more along the lines of what I thought of the movie as a Mortal Kombat outsider.
Tag: meta
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👩💻 More Meta shenanigans, alternative uses for the Apple Watch, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-08
Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.
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👾 Happy 20th Xbox and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-19
Happy 20th Xbox! Here’s to another 20!
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👏 Ding, dong, Internet Explorer is (almost) dead
First we have the death of Adobe Flash and hot on its heels is the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Well, it’s only on life support, the plug will be pulled in June of 2022.
Does anyone still run IE?
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🚀 The military wants to rocket supplies around the world
The US military can deploy pretty quickly to remote locations, but there is still a limit on how fast they can get there with a plan. That’s why the military is looking at using rockets to transport supplies.
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🍽 Here's a microwave that runs Linux
Here’s a microwave that runs Linux for voice control. It’s only a matter of time before Doom is ported to it.
Also, one step closer to getting Linux on my toaster.
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Tag: mixtapes
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📼 The inventor of the cassette tape has passed away
One prominent aspect of my high school career was the idea of a mixtape, and the man who made it possible, Lou Ottens has passed away .
The art of the mixtape continued into the 90s, transitioning to CDs. In the transition, I think the mixtape lost something. When you create a tape for someone, the order of the songs is important, but CDs let you jump around, so you lost some of that magic.
Tag: monopoly
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🎲 What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly?
Here are some people answering the important question, What is the shortest possible game of Monopoly. Unfortunately, you’re limited to what the dice rolls, so the chances of this happening in a real life game is pretty slim.
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Wait, according to my Star Wars calendar, the moon is called Endor, BUT SO IS THE GAS GIANT IT'S ORBITING?
What genius thought that was a good idea?
Tag: motorcycle
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🏍 Harley's Electric Motorcycle
This is pretty smart of Harley Davidson. Instead of launching an electric motorcycle under their brand, they are creating a new brand called Livewire. No word yet on facial hair or age requirements.
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Tag: movies
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The Marvels 13 Word Review
Great movie with an outstanding cast, quotes, humor that felt natural unlike Quantumania.
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We watched the filmed stage production of Spirited Away last night and was blown away
It was an amazing production, I wish I could see it live even if I don’t understand Japanese. This is the only picture I took, I wanted to watch it.
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RRR 13 word review
Absolutely amazing. The most fun I’ve had in the theater in years. Amazing.
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The Gray Man 13 word review
So many drone shots, decent action flick. Ryan Gosling can do no wrong.
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Roman Holiday 13 word movie review
Excellent movie, an amazing performance by Audrey Hepburn in her first leading role.
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Glass Onion review in 13 words
Long, but builds to an almost satisfying conclusion. Worth it though, go watch!
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M3GAN 13 word review
It’s predictable but with excellent execution. A great way to spend an afternoon.
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I'm not going to lie, this looks pretty awesome
BARBIE - Teaser Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube
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☄ Happy 40th Anniversary to the best Star Trek movie ever released, The Wrath of Khan!
Let’s celebrate the best Star Trek movie ever released, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
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🚀 A tale of two trailers with the classic battle of Star Wars vs Star Trek
Yesterday, two science fiction behemoths dropped trailers for their upcoming series. If you haven’t watched them, go check them out now, I’ll wait:
As a fan of both franchises, I get excited when anything new comes out. However, in this case, the Star Trek trailer was just not exciting. Maybe it was because I watched the Obi Wan trailer first? Or is it that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sounds like Season 5 of Enterprise?
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🚗 If you are in Washington DC, go check out the Back to the Future Delorean at the National Mall
As part of the 2021 Cars at the Capital exhibit, the DeLorean from Back to the Future will be on display at the National Mall in Washington DC. You better be quick, it’s only there until Thursday.
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🎥 Labyrinth Returns to Theaters for 35th Anniversary
I’ve never seen Labyrinth, but now’s my chance!
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🤖 Transformers - The Movie Returns to Theaters for its 35th Anniversary
There are days you wake up and think it’s going to just be another boring day when you are pleasantly surprised by something awesome. Transformers: The Movie is coming back to the theaters in September for its 35th anniversary.
The movie does have some issues, especially with how they decided to make us all want new toys, but the soundtrack is spot on. Stan Bush rocks it, along with Weird Al.
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👻 New Ghostbusters - Afterlife trailer has dropped!!
I was a little excited before, now I’m very excited.
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🎥 Now there is even more of the Super Mario Bros. movie to enjoy
If you thought that the Super Mario Bros. Movie could stand to have more added to it, then do I have good news for you. There is an extended version of the movie that has been found!
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🎶 The Back to the Future musical is on track for August
I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be good, especially with the people involved. Too bad I won’t be in England in August.
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🎥 Introducing the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator
Here is an example of a site you didn’t know you needed in your life, the Ace Ventura sliding door simulator.
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💫 You know Star Wars Episodes 8 & 9 have issues when judges start weighing in
Someday when your bored, ask me to weigh in on how much I don’t really like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, I don’t get to rant in court about how bad they are. At least, not yet.
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🎥 Disney changes The Rise of Skywalker
Before you get too excited, Disney didn’t actually change the content of the film. Besides adding lots of lens flare, JJ Abrams added a lot of blue to The Rise of Skywalker, which Disney has now removed in the version on Disney+. The stills look better than the original.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t improve the movie enough to get me to watch it again.
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🎭 Using deepfake technology for movie dubs
This is a really cool use of deepfake technology, blending the actor’s and dubber’s facial expersions to make a great looking dubbed film. There are so many foreign language films that may be able to find a broader audience with this technology.
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🎥 Robots are coming for your screenwriters
For Memorial Day Ars Technica re-ran an article from 2016 where they fed a neural network a bunch of sci fi scripts and created a movie from the results. It is bizarrely fascinating.
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🎥 Raiders at 40
A couple of retrospectives on one of the greatest movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Enduring Myths of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Spielberg Revisit Raiders of the Lost Ark – The Hollywood Reporter.
For some reason I don’t remember seeing it in the theater, although I know I must have. It ran for 10 months, so I figure I saw it at least a couple of times.
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🦸♀️Marvel's Eternals teaser trailer
I have no idea what the Eternals even are, so I guess I need to wait for a trailer with a little more substance.
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👑 Ode to A Knight's Tale
This month is the 20th anniversary of the hidden gem that is A Knight’s Tale, the story of a boy who wants more than the hand he was dealt. It’s a great movie, and if you haven’t seen it, now is as good as time as any. It’s such a fun movie.
Yes, the music of Queen is used in the movie
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🥋 Mortal Kombat was a flawless victory
This past Sunday, after 14 months of no theaters, I ventured to my first movie. Mortal Kombat was showing. I was a big fan of the first one, and even though this one doesn’t have the storied production of the first I still wanted to see it, and I was not disappointed. After surviving Battlefield Earth I can watch just about anything.
I’m not writing a review, there are for more of those out there and written better than anything I could commit to the keyboard, so this is more along the lines of what I thought of the movie as a Mortal Kombat outsider.
Tag: mozart
Tag: mspacman
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How to access Pac-Man or the speed up hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets
This post is mostly for myself so I can quickly lookup the joystick sequence to enable Pac-Man or use the speedup hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets. It seems like this is the most common cabinet, I see it the most out in the wild.
Play Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man started out as a ROM hack of the original Pac-Man board, and because of that, Ms. Pac-Man ran on the same hardware as the Pac-Man cabinets.
Tag: mtv
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🎶📺 Today is the 40th anniversary of MTV - Watch the first 2 hours on YouTube
In the 80s, I lived 10 miles out of town and had 4 channels. Even then, I still knew what MTV was and tried to watch it any chance I got. The closest we had to MTV was Friday Night Videos.
I was curious what MTV is today, so I pulled up the schedule. Apparently MTV is now the Ridiculousness. What a lost opportunity, where is the retrospective?
YouTube killed MTV a long time ago, mostly due to the impulsivity of people today.
Tag: music
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of the iTunes music store
let’s listen to the first song I ever purchased, Norah Jones’ Don’t Know Why - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4dxvguQDk
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I can still identify at least 90% of the singers
I bought the album just for the Huey Lewis song.
Tag: musicals
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🎶 The Back to the Future musical is on track for August
I’m cautiously optimistic that this will be good, especially with the people involved. Too bad I won’t be in England in August.
Tag: n-able
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🖥 After hack, Solarwinds rebrands
After being used for the largest hack ever Solarwinds came up with a brilliant solution to their PR nightmare. Changing the name to N-able is a stroke of genius. A totally new Google-able name!
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👨🚀 Michael Collins of the Apollo 11 mission has passed away
Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died. He has the honor of taking a picture that includes all of humanity, except for himself.
Tag: nba
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📱 An NBA team was punished because a player dared to have an Android phone
An NBA head coach punished the entire team because one of the players had an Android phone and it messed up a group chat.
I have so many issues with this. For starters, I can’t image dealing with a group chat of 15 in iMessages. Secondly, there are so many better ways to deal with group chat. Thirdly, isn’t it the lack of the coaches knowledge that caused the error and not the player?
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👾 8-bit Christmas movie and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-12
Neil Patrick Harris stars in an upcoming Christmas movie, 8-bit Christmas, voice chat over IRC, and more.
Tag: netbsd
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I must try to refrain from digging out a G4 Mac Mini and setting it up with NetBSD
I have way too many other projects!
Tag: netflix
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The Gray Man 13 word review
So many drone shots, decent action flick. Ryan Gosling can do no wrong.
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Glass Onion review in 13 words
Long, but builds to an almost satisfying conclusion. Worth it though, go watch!
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Tag: ngircd
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💬 Run an IRC server under DOS on any PC with an 8088 or better CPU
Sure, Microsoft ushered in 2002 by declaring MS-DOS 6.22 was obsolete, but that doesn’t stop people from using it. And now you can run the IRC server ngircd under DOS on just about any old PC compatible. For the full affect you’ll want a network card.
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😴 Does night shift help you sleep
Finally, some research into whether night shift on your phone helps you sleep better. Night shift is when your phone removes the blues from the image, giving you this dull, brown tinted screen. I use it, especially in dark areas, because even when the phone is turned down to the minimum brightness it can still be blinding.
Tag: nintendo
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🎮 The Nintendo Gamecube is now 20 years old!
The Nintendo Gamecube was released in Japan on September 14, 2001. I can’t remember when I actually bought one, but I loved playing through Metroid Prime. One of the few games I’ve actually completed, and, without going to any playthrough on the internet.
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🎮 The Nintendo Switch is getting a calculator app
I thought the pinnacle of technological advancement was when the calculator watch was released, but I was wrong.
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✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI My notes are not fancy This article can be condensed to “all of my notes are in my Notes folder”.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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Tag: obsidian
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Auto syncing git based Obsidian vault
My notes have been in a git repo for almost 10 years and this has worked pretty well for me, especially since I worked almost exclusively from the command line with VIM. However, a few months ago I added Obsidian to the mix, which meant I had to re-think how to sync my notes git repo.
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🏞 Oregon Trail updated for Apple Arcade to remove historical inaccuracies
Gameloft has released a new version of Oregon Trail for Apple Arcade that removed a lot of historical inaccuracies.
However, you can still die of dysentery.
Tag: owc
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⌚ How to get 67% more speed with external drives on your M1 Mac
OWC found out that you can get get up to 67% faster Thunderbolt drive performance with your M1 Mac simply by using an external Thunderbolt display.
Tag: pac-man
Tag: pacman
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How to access Pac-Man or the speed up hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets
This post is mostly for myself so I can quickly lookup the joystick sequence to enable Pac-Man or use the speedup hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets. It seems like this is the most common cabinet, I see it the most out in the wild.
Play Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man started out as a ROM hack of the original Pac-Man board, and because of that, Ms. Pac-Man ran on the same hardware as the Pac-Man cabinets.
Tag: pi
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💻 Updating a Macbook with a Raspberry Pi 4
What do you do when your Macbook has stopped working? How about stuffing a Raspberry Pi 4 inside.
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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I guess I need to set up a C64
It’s surprising I don’t remember Grandma owning all of these games. I remember her getting GEOS though.
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Setting up my Atari VCS as my ultimate emulation machine.
It’s currently running Windows 11 and showing the Altirra Atari 8-Bit emulator running Donkey Kong.
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We watched the filmed stage production of Spirited Away last night and was blown away
It was an amazing production, I wish I could see it live even if I don’t understand Japanese. This is the only picture I took, I wanted to watch it.
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One hour until my Atari Jaguar livestream at 7:30pm EDT
Goz's Streaming Life | GozGeek - The Geek for All of Us
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Buying the stereo from Crutchfield was really nice, they sent everything I needed to install the new stereo
I had them build the cable, which was a little expensive but worth it.
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RRR 13 word review
Absolutely amazing. The most fun I’ve had in the theater in years. Amazing.
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I can still identify at least 90% of the singers
I bought the album just for the Huey Lewis song.
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I finally got around to upgrading my X-Arcade joystick to USB
I’ve only been sitting on the kit for 6 years…
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I've completed 'Cathode-Ray Tube' - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022 on my Atari 1200XL
Day 10 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Treetop Tree House' - Day 8 on the Atari 8-bit Computer - Advent of Code 2022
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Tuning Trouble' - Day 6 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 6 - Advent of Code 2022
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I've completed 'Supply Stacks' - Day 5 on the Atari 8-bit - Advent of Code 2022
Day 5 - Advent of Code 2022
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I would like to offer the greatest name of an arcade ever
31 Vintage Photos From The Glory Days Of Arcades
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🖼 Resize and re-compress your photos with squoosh.app
Have you needed to quickly resize or recompress a picture and don’t want to wait for Affinity Photo or Photoshop to load? Then do I have a web app for you!
Squoosh is in the house Squoosh is a Google project that was created to highlight offline apps in the browser. The site allows you to not only convert photos to other formats, but to also resize and reduce the number of colors in a photo.
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Tag: pixel
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👾 The developer of the pixel and creator of the first scanned image passed away last August
Last August Russell Kirsch passed away. His pioneering work in computer graphics led to the development of the first scanned image, one of his son. The research from these early years led to the use of digital images in the computer for years to come.
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✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI My notes are not fancy This article can be condensed to “all of my notes are in my Notes folder”.
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📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI A journal is a great way to remember things that happen, or to take note of something that may be useful in the future.
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🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI After you start using one folder with your plain text notes and lists, that’s all great until you want to work on them from multiple devices.
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI After you start using one folder with your plain text notes and lists, that’s all great until you want to work on them from multiple devices.
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I believe that there are as many ways to manages tasks as there are stars in the sky.
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Tag: podcast
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🏃 New Battle Royale for Epic and more - This Geek in Review for 21 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
New Battle Royale Mode - Apple/Google vs Fortnite When Apple created their app store, they set a fee of 30% for developers. This meant that when a developer sold a game for $10.00, Apple received $3 and the developer received $7.
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⌨ The CoCo is 40 and more - This Geek in Review for 14 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
The turning point Where I am with my life and how I got here are the result of two events in my life. One, Watching Star Wars: A New Hope and two, going to visit my aunt and uncle in the summer of ‘83.
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🎮 Huge Nintendo leak and more - This Geek in Review for 7 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
Hackers do what Nintendon’t Nintendo fans were suprised with a huge leak of internal Nintendo files and prototypes this past week. There was a ton of unreleased and in progress game prototypes and assets from the Super Nintendo and N-64 era.
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👽 E.T. is not the worst video game ever and more - This Geek in Review for 31 Jul 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
No Virginia, E.T. is not the worst video game ever This past week screenrant.com made the list, disparaging the game E.T. The Extraterrestrial for the 2600. Let me set the record straight: E.T. is not the worst game ever made nor is it the cause of the video game crash of 1983.
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🤓 Revisiting X-Men and more - This Geek in Review for 24 Jul 2020
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What do they call you? Wheels? I grew up with the 80s version of X-Men, so twenty years ago I was pretty stoked for the X-Men movie. What I got was disappointment. Some of the casting was genius. Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen?
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🎴 Target is sick and tired of Pokemon cards
Due to the craziness of the Pokemon card market, the retailer Target stopped selling the cards on May 14th.
If you’re still jonesing for some cards, Walmart has your back.
Tag: politics
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🚗 Ohio senator attends Zoom call while driving
In another attempt of Ohio attempting to out do Florida, an Ohio state senator attended a government meeting on Zoom… WHILE DRIVING!
I could give him the benefit of the doubt that he attends to phone calls while driving, and he could have done the same thing here. Except he was messing with virtual backgrounds and fiddling with the camera.
And he picked a home office for his background.
At least he had his seat belt on.
Tag: popculture
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👽 PSA - Today is Alien Day
Just to let you know, today is Alien Day, so be sure to celebrate the planet LV-426 by watching Alien, Aliens, or sucking on someone’s face.
Tag: printing
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We're putting in new copiers on teacher work day.
You would think I just told the teachers that the copiers will never work again. All I said was don’t plan on printing on Tuesday…
Tag: printshop
Tag: productivity
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
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📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro
Cover photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I’ve been using plain text for my notes since 2014, and for a journal since 2017.
Tag: programming
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💻 Scheduling and automating posts in a Hugo site
I’ve been working on a new little geeking site over at GozGeek.com as a way to share little geeky things I find on the internet and also write about my own geekspirations. Previously I would have created the site in Wordpress, but I wanted to learn Hugo so that’s what I used. One feature I use a lot in Wordpress is the scheduling of publishing posts, so I had to figure out how to do this in Hugo.
Tag: quake
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⚔ Quake turns 25
Quake turned 25 this year, and what a ground breaking game it was (and still is). One of my favorite features was that you could put any music CD in your computer and use that music as the background music. Many a days were spent listening to Junior Brown as I played Quake.
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🤖 Lego has a new R2-D2 model
If anyone wants to get me an early Christmas present, here’s an idea.
Tag: realgenius
Tag: restaurants
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🍗 How the pandemic has brought the age of chick wing delivery
In The Great Wings Rush, The Verge digs into the onslaught of chicken wing delivery and how restaurant chains are trying to get a piece of the action. Even Chuck E. Cheese is in on it.
For myself, I like a good wing as much as the next guy. However, I am also lazy when it comes to my food and wings require a little too much effort for my taste (pun intended).
Tag: retirement
Tag: retro
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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👩💻 How to save the Atari Home Computer Division in 1982
What could have Atari done in 1982 to save themselves?
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💾 Upcoming virtual conference - 6502: THE CHIP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
6502: The Chip That Changed The World is happening Thursday, and it looks like a really cool venture.
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🖥 Check out a modern take on retro computer terminals
I’m a huge fan of the command line, and I would be thrilled to be able to use one of these terminals!
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Cheap Fire Tablets Will Soon Be Great Game Emulators – Review Geek
Good news for retro game players, Retroarch is coming to the Amazon App Store. You’ll be able to play all of your retro goodness without having to sideload Retroarch.
I’ve got an old 7" tablet that I need to try this out on!
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
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💾 A disk that boots and Atari, C64, or Apple II
Here is something truly amazing, a boot floppy that will start up an Atari, Commodore C64, or an Apple II. It’s not a flippy, but just one side that boots whatever machine it is inserted.
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🖥 No wonder Apple users are so loud!
The Apple II didn’t support lowercase letters and now you know why. Inverse characters are a nice hack though.
Tag: retroarch
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Cheap Fire Tablets Will Soon Be Great Game Emulators – Review Geek
Good news for retro game players, Retroarch is coming to the Amazon App Store. You’ll be able to play all of your retro goodness without having to sideload Retroarch.
I’ve got an old 7" tablet that I need to try this out on!
Tag: retrocomputer
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I'm looking for suggestions on what to stream tonight! Any ideas?
Pretty much anything is on the table… Maybe I’ll go back to Advent of Code on my Atari 800XL…
Tag: retrocomputing
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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I’m putting vintage computers in plastic tubs for storage
Should I put some sort of barrier between them?
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I guess I need to set up a C64
It’s surprising I don’t remember Grandma owning all of these games. I remember her getting GEOS though.
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My first portable computer, the TI-74
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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Remember in the 80s when you could only use the computer at home, in only one room?
I’m sending this from a mall food court. Isn’t the future grand?
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I just completed 'Treetop Tree House' - Day 8 on the Atari 8-bit Computer - Advent of Code 2022
Day 8 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'No Space Left On Device' - Day 7 on my Atari 8-Bit Computer in FastBasic - Advent of Code 2022
Day 7 - Advent of Code 2022
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I just completed 'Calorie Counting' - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022 - Yay AtariBasic
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2022
Tag: retrogaming
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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One hour until my Atari Jaguar livestream at 7:30pm EDT
Goz's Streaming Life | GozGeek - The Geek for All of Us
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️Here’s me playing Tempest on my MAME cabinet with my new spinner and new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT
Tempest with a spinner on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT Monitor - YouTube
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Here's what vector gameplay looks like on my new to me 19inch NEC Multisync CRT Monitor
Playing Asteroids on my MAME cabinet with my new to me 19" NEC Multisync CRT monitor! - YouTube
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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I finally got around to upgrading my X-Arcade joystick to USB
I’ve only been sitting on the kit for 6 years…
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I'm looking for suggestions on what to stream tonight! Any ideas?
Pretty much anything is on the table… Maybe I’ll go back to Advent of Code on my Atari 800XL…
Tag: returnofthejedi
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Why is Return of the Jedi at the theaters this weekend?
And why am I just finding out about it now?
Tag: review
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M3GAN 13 word review
It’s predictable but with excellent execution. A great way to spend an afternoon.
Tag: reviews
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Roman Holiday 13 word movie review
Excellent movie, an amazing performance by Audrey Hepburn in her first leading role.
Tag: rockets
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🚀 The military wants to rocket supplies around the world
The US military can deploy pretty quickly to remote locations, but there is still a limit on how fast they can get there with a plan. That’s why the military is looking at using rockets to transport supplies.
Tag: rrr
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RRR 13 word review
Absolutely amazing. The most fun I’ve had in the theater in years. Amazing.
Tag: rss
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Auto syncing git based Obsidian vault
My notes have been in a git repo for almost 10 years and this has worked pretty well for me, especially since I worked almost exclusively from the command line with VIM. However, a few months ago I added Obsidian to the mix, which meant I had to re-think how to sync my notes git repo.
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📲 Princess Leia's dress, Atari 2600 Myst, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-30
Princess Leia’s dress, a Myst demake on the Atari 2600, and more - This Geek In Review
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🎮 Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-23
Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more.
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📚 Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan's Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan’s Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
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🔲 A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-09
A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more
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✨ Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-02
Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more.
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🧑💻 The Beepberry, remembering 'V', Mario Kart LAN parties, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-26
🧑<200d>💻 The Beepberry, remembering ‘V’, Mario Kart LAN parties, and more
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☄️ A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-19
A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more
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💲 The economics of Emperor Palpatine's Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-12
The economics of Emperor Palpatine’s Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more
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📷 New driver for a '99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-05
New driver for a ‘99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more
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💥 Comic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
omic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
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🛸 SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
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Goz’s Stream Status Where to watch Goz’s Streaming Server - This is my Owncast server that currently lives on Amazon EC2. The link will only work when I’m streaming. No accounts are needed to watch or chat. Twitch - Twitch.tv, in all its glory YouTube Streaming - My YouTube channel. Chatting I’m experimenting with SocialStream, an open source Chrome extension that consolidates the chat across all of these platforms and combines them in the stream.
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😱 Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-14
Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more.
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💫 Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-07
Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more
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🎉 Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-31
Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news
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🎮 All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-24
All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more,
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💾 Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-17
Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more.
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🔖 New project - my collection of browser bookmarklets
Bookmarklets can be a good substitute for browser extensions.
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🕰 Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-10
Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more
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🧟♀️ Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-03
Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more
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Creating an editorial calendar with a bash script
Here’s a funky little script to show you an editorial calendar in the current directory with which Markdown file are scheduled for what days.
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🦸♂️ Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
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🔭 Da Vinci's gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-17
Da Vinci’s gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set
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When the manager doesn’t know math I win!
Buy one pair and get the second pair for 50% doesn’t work like you think it does Mr. Manager.
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My first portable computer, the TI-74
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
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💾 What's a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-10
What’s a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more.
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📽 Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
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🧱 Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-27
Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more.
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🧙♂️ D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
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🧙♀️ New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-13
New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more
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🖥 3D printed '50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
3D printed ’50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
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📱 Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-30
Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12- 30
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💎 Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-23
Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more,
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💾 Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
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📷 Geek photo of the week for 2022-12-14
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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🎞 A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-12-07
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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🖥 macOS on a Wii, Gamecube's hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-02
macOS on a Wii, Gamecube’s hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more
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📶 Google is experimenting with RSS... Again.
Killing off Google Reader just wasn’t enough for Google, now they are twisting the knife by experimenting with adding RSS feeds to the Android version of Chrome.
My current favorite RSS reader is Inoreader, it’s what I use to follow sites and people that I’m interested in, chronologically. I don’t miss stories because an algorithm thought I wasn’t interested.
Tag: running
Tag: sales
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When the manager doesn’t know math I win!
Buy one pair and get the second pair for 50% doesn’t work like you think it does Mr. Manager.
Tag: sandwiches
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🥪 Subway shop operators are claiming that the new sandwiches are a safety hazard
Subway operators are complaining that the newest Sandwiches are a safety hazard. I say, the sandwich business has always been dangerous, you knew what you were getting in to when you signed up.
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👾 The developer of the pixel and creator of the first scanned image passed away last August
Last August Russell Kirsch passed away. His pioneering work in computer graphics led to the development of the first scanned image, one of his son. The research from these early years led to the use of digital images in the computer for years to come.
Tag: screensavers
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🔪 Relive the glory days of the Mac After Dark screen savers
Anyone who used a Macintosh in the 90s has seen the flying toasters screen savers, and you can now relive those times in your browser. Be sure to take your browser to full screen for the full affect.
Tag: security
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🔒 Encryption and storage made easy with Keybase
Are you looking for a way to securely store and share information? Then check out Keybase!
What is Keybase? Keybase is a messaging client with encryption, along with encrypted storage and encrypted sharing. By using public key cryptography, all data is secured and can’t be read by anyone, include Keybase themselves. Data in this context means your 1:1 chats, group chats, files, etc. are securely stored.
The Keybase website also lets you encrypt information for Keybase users, allowing someone to send me information that only I can read.
Tag: sega
Tag: seinfeld
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🎶 The Seinfeld music mashup that you didn't know you needed
When I lose faith in what the internet can produce, I’m going to come back to this video.
Tag: sethmacfarlane
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I'm watching The Orville for the first time and am so sorry I never watched it before.
S02E06 seals it for me. A whole orchestra and a significant amount of playtime? Absolutely amazing. +100 GozPoints to Seth MacFarlane.
Tag: shortcuts
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iOS shortcuts can run commands over SSH
Running commands over SSH is probably my most used iOS Shortcuts step.
Tag: signal
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🦹♂️The instant messaging client Signal turns the tables on hackers
Signal is an instant messaging client that is praised for its privacy and security model, while Cellebrite is a company that hacks smartphones for police organizations. You would think that Cellebrite would put a priority on its own security operations, but that is not the case.
Basically, they pwned the device.
Tag: sirmixalot
Tag: sleep
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😴 Does night shift help you sleep
Finally, some research into whether night shift on your phone helps you sleep better. Night shift is when your phone removes the blues from the image, giving you this dull, brown tinted screen. I use it, especially in dark areas, because even when the phone is turned down to the minimum brightness it can still be blinding.
Tag: smileycrew
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
Tag: snes
Tag: socialmedia
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🗣️ Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week This Geek in Review for 2021-10-08
Facebook went down, putting Whatsapp, Instagram, and more out of commission. And then to twist the knife, a Facebook whistleblower explained to congress how evil Facebook has become. My geek travels went from Mick Jagger to cheating on tests to wedding photos taken with the Gameboy camera.
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👎 Thumbs down to thumbs up
A University of Cambridge researcher was written very succinctly how social media likes are lazy and useless.
“It is a form of pseudo-engagement which absolves us of the guilt of not responding to others’ posts but creates the bare minimum of human connection.”
A couple of years ago I read the book The Circle bu Dave Eggers. He saw back in 2014 how useless likes were. If something doesn’t require effort, how much value can you really place on it?
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👨👩👧👧 Facebook's attempt to out do 2020
I gave up on Facebook a while ago, and things like this reinforce my decision.
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😈 We now know what value Facebook places on your soul, I mean you
Facebook will sell you an Oculus headset for $299, but will require you to have a Facebook account. Now, Facebook will let you buy a headset without requiring a Facebook account, all for the price of $799. And then, after the first year, Facebook twists the knife and charges you an annual fee of $180.
Tag: solarwinds
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🖥 After hack, Solarwinds rebrands
After being used for the largest hack ever Solarwinds came up with a brilliant solution to their PR nightmare. Changing the name to N-able is a stroke of genius. A totally new Google-able name!
Tag: somafm
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Soma.fm’s Department Store Christmas channel is fantastic
SomaFM: Department Store Christmas: Holiday Elevator Music from a more innocent time. (Specials) Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio
Tag: space
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🚀 A Macintosh Portable ejecting a disk - IN SPACE!
One difference between Macs and other computers with 3.5" disk drives was that the Mac relieved you of the work of pulling the disk out of the drive. The Mac had a powered eject that would gently eject the disk from the machine and basically handing the disk to you.
This works great where you have gravity, but it has some issues in space.
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🌌 We already will never be able to see 94% of the universe ever again
TRUE Limits Of Humanity – The Final Border We Will Never Cross
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🚀 China successfully lands a rover on Mars
Landing on another planet is an impressive achievement, and China has done it. NASA makes it look easy, but even they are saying that 60% of Mars missions end in failure.
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👨🚀 Michael Collins of the Apollo 11 mission has passed away
Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 command module, has died. He has the honor of taking a picture that includes all of humanity, except for himself.
Tag: sparkleshare
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🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI After you start using one folder with your plain text notes and lists, that’s all great until you want to work on them from multiple devices.
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Tag: spider-man
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🦸♂️Spider-Man and other Sony films coming to Disney Plus and Hulu
It won’t be long until all of pop culture will be under the Disney umbrella.
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We watched the filmed stage production of Spirited Away last night and was blown away
It was an amazing production, I wish I could see it live even if I don’t understand Japanese. This is the only picture I took, I wanted to watch it.
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Tag: squoosh
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🖼 Resize and re-compress your photos with squoosh.app
Have you needed to quickly resize or recompress a picture and don’t want to wait for Affinity Photo or Photoshop to load? Then do I have a web app for you!
Squoosh is in the house Squoosh is a Google project that was created to highlight offline apps in the browser. The site allows you to not only convert photos to other formats, but to also resize and reduce the number of colors in a photo.
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⌨Heads up, Github changed their RSA key this morning
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
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iOS shortcuts can run commands over SSH
Running commands over SSH is probably my most used iOS Shortcuts step.
Tag: startrek
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The latter part of the first season of TNG has a lot of showing off what they could do with production values
Angel One shows several transporter sequences with others moving in the shot, and 11001001 opens with some nice space shots. Not that I’m complaining!
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-30
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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Hey look, Marina Sirtis is in the episode of The Orville
I wonder when Jonathan Frakes will show up… (waits 17 seconds) ‘Directed by Jonathan Frakes’ Bingo!
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☄ Happy 40th Anniversary to the best Star Trek movie ever released, The Wrath of Khan!
Let’s celebrate the best Star Trek movie ever released, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
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🚀 A tale of two trailers with the classic battle of Star Wars vs Star Trek
Yesterday, two science fiction behemoths dropped trailers for their upcoming series. If you haven’t watched them, go check them out now, I’ll wait:
As a fan of both franchises, I get excited when anything new comes out. However, in this case, the Star Trek trailer was just not exciting. Maybe it was because I watched the Obi Wan trailer first? Or is it that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sounds like Season 5 of Enterprise?
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🚀 Did the Star Trek Voyager finale missed its mark?
On the 20th anniversary of the Star Trek Voyager finale, The Hollywood Report laments on how the finale missed its greatness. The biggest argument was that we didn’t see how the crew re-assimilated (pun intended) back into their old life. My biggest beef with the finale was how they castrated the borg, but we’ll save that discussion for another day.
In the case of the finale being underwhelming, let’s look back at a great TV show that had the same premise, Gilligan’s Island.
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The latter part of the first season of TNG has a lot of showing off what they could do with production values
Angel One shows several transporter sequences with others moving in the shot, and 11001001 opens with some nice space shots. Not that I’m complaining!
Tag: starwars
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Why is Return of the Jedi at the theaters this weekend?
And why am I just finding out about it now?
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Wait, according to my Star Wars calendar, the moon is called Endor, BUT SO IS THE GAS GIANT IT'S ORBITING?
What genius thought that was a good idea?
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📷 Geek photos of the week for 2022-11-30
A random assortment of geeky graphics I stumbled across this week.
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💫 My favorite news from Star Wars Celebration 2022
More characters from Star Wars Rebels and season 2 of The Bad Batch! AWESOME!
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🚀 A tale of two trailers with the classic battle of Star Wars vs Star Trek
Yesterday, two science fiction behemoths dropped trailers for their upcoming series. If you haven’t watched them, go check them out now, I’ll wait:
As a fan of both franchises, I get excited when anything new comes out. However, in this case, the Star Trek trailer was just not exciting. Maybe it was because I watched the Obi Wan trailer first? Or is it that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds sounds like Season 5 of Enterprise?
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💫 You know Star Wars Episodes 8 & 9 have issues when judges start weighing in
Someday when your bored, ask me to weigh in on how much I don’t really like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Unfortunately, I don’t get to rant in court about how bad they are. At least, not yet.
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🎥 Disney changes The Rise of Skywalker
Before you get too excited, Disney didn’t actually change the content of the film. Besides adding lots of lens flare, JJ Abrams added a lot of blue to The Rise of Skywalker, which Disney has now removed in the version on Disney+. The stills look better than the original.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t improve the movie enough to get me to watch it again.
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🛸 Why does it have to be an X-Wing from Rise of Skywalker?!?
The Smithsonian Museum is getting a new exhibit, an X-Wing from Star Wars. Normally, this would be a cause for celebration, except they’re taking a prop from Rise of Skywalker. I had a problem with this model of X-Wing since The Force Awakens, and it has to do with the engines.
In the original series, the X-Wings had four circular engines, and when the wings opened in to the X formation, each engine went with the wing.
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🤖 Lego has a new R2-D2 model
If anyone wants to get me an early Christmas present, here’s an idea.
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🌌 Vintage Star Wars is now on Disney Plus
If you can’t get your fill of Star Wars, be sure to check out the Star Wars Vintage Collection on Disney Plus. The opening of Ewoks is so bizarre, I have nothing to compare it to.
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🤖 USPS Star Wars Droid stamps virtual event
To commemorate the release of the Star Wars Droids Commemorative Forever® Stamps, the United States Postal Service is hosting a virtual dedication ceremony on Facebook and Twitter on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth.
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Adding commments to my static web site with hashover
One of my biggest issues with running a static website is that having comments on posts isn’t very straightforward. Thankfully, Hashover exists.
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The Steam Deck runs Altirra really well!
I did have to configure the controller, and I haven’t tried any games that require a keyboard but I could remap some of the triggers to those keys.
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
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We watched the filmed stage production of Spirited Away last night and was blown away
It was an amazing production, I wish I could see it live even if I don’t understand Japanese. This is the only picture I took, I wanted to watch it.
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🥪 Subway shop operators are claiming that the new sandwiches are a safety hazard
Subway operators are complaining that the newest Sandwiches are a safety hazard. I say, the sandwich business has always been dangerous, you knew what you were getting in to when you signed up.
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Invincible Review: An Engaging and Gripping Animated Super Hero Show
I just finished Invincible on Amazon Prime Video and I am blown away. Although the gore may turn off some viewers, it made the whole idea of super heroes a little more realistic, much like Amazon Prime Video The Boys does.
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🎥 Now there is even more of the Super Mario Bros. movie to enjoy
If you thought that the Super Mario Bros. Movie could stand to have more added to it, then do I have good news for you. There is an extended version of the movie that has been found!
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🐒 Super Monkey Ball is being remastered
One of the greatest party games for the Gamecube is being remastered, Super Monkey Ball. The game will include my favorite, Super Monkey Ball 2 along with local only multiplayer modes. And you know what, I’m glad it’s local only. That’s the only way to play it multiplayer.
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🌮 Taco Bell hit by nationwide shortages
Is your Taco Bell closing early like mine is? It’s because Taco Bell is having a nationwide shortage of ingredients.
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🎴 Target is sick and tired of Pokemon cards
Due to the craziness of the Pokemon card market, the retailer Target stopped selling the cards on May 14th.
If you’re still jonesing for some cards, Walmart has your back.
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✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I believe that there are as many ways to manages tasks as there are stars in the sky.
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🐈 It's not your cat, it's your work and computer that is trying to kill you
Not only is working long hours pretty bad for you, but your computer is out to get you too.
The cat has no comment.
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We're putting in new copiers on teacher work day.
You would think I just told the teachers that the copiers will never work again. All I said was don’t plan on printing on Tuesday…
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🖼 Free Ted Lasso wallpapers for your screen
If you are a fan of Ted Lasso, you can download Richmand Team Logo wallpapers for your computer.
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📹 Saving social media videos to your phone
This is an overkill solution to saving social media videos to my iPhone.
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💬 Using Telegram for notes, bookmarks, and more
Photo by Adem AY on Unsplash
It’s no secret that Telegram is my favorite instant messaging platform. The advantages are many, with the biggest being its cross-platformness (it’s a word now, I just used it). I can run Telegram on any of my devices and computers, easily sharing information, pictures, and other multimedia.
Telegram offers unlimited storage, although the individual file size is limited to 2GB. More than enough space for bookmarks, notes, pictures, and videos that I may come across in my internet travels.
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📵 Helping grandma communicate over Telegram
I’m a huge fan of the instant messaging service Telegram, with one of it’s major advantages is how open the service is. @mrcatacroquer was able to use this openness to build a device to let his grandma communicate over Telegram with her grandchildren.
It’s an amazing device, and something that you couldn’t pull off with any other instant messaging service.
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My first portable computer, the TI-74
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
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📝 Expand text with my favorite tool, Espanso!
Using automatic text expansion with Espanso is an easy way to be very productive
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📲 Princess Leia's dress, Atari 2600 Myst, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-30
Princess Leia’s dress, a Myst demake on the Atari 2600, and more - This Geek In Review
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🎮 Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-23
Gameboy development, RSS, fake manual transmissions for electric cars and more.
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📚 Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan's Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
Scanning Computer Shopper, Obi-Wan’s Cloak is found, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-16
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🔲 A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-09
A 41lb 4 inch cube, miniature vintage computers, AI album covers, and more
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✨ Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-06-02
Games are cheap, the Apple Lisa, and more.
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🧑💻 The Beepberry, remembering 'V', Mario Kart LAN parties, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-26
🧑<200d>💻 The Beepberry, remembering ‘V’, Mario Kart LAN parties, and more
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☄️ A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-19
A better tricorder, the Sony Mavica makes an appearance, ChatGPT the fitness instructor, and more
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💲 The economics of Emperor Palpatine's Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-12
The economics of Emperor Palpatine’s Empire, CP/M for the 6502, 30 years of WWW, and more
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📷 New driver for a '99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-05-05
New driver for a ‘99 webcam, every Enterprise bridge, reasons why being a Twitch streamer is hard, and more
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💥 Comic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
omic books on the C64, NES online multiplayer, obituaries on YouTube, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-28
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🛸 SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
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😱 Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-14
Original Wilhelm scream found, terrible pixelated clothes, 20 foot tall Donkey Kong arcade game, and more.
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💫 Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-07
Starfleet Academy announced, lost 2600 game found, recreating the Model F IBM keyboard, and more
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🎉 Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-31
Adding an ISA slot, ChatGPT for MS-DOS, and a bunch of AI news
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🎮 All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-24
All the WiiU & 3DS games, vinyl comeback, ridiculous Super Mario 64 speedrun, and more,
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💾 Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-17
Confessions of a Beagle Bros employee, the Mastodon migration, remembering Pi, and more.
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🕰 Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-10
Effects of time dilation, Retro Directory, Funko Pops going to the landfill, and more
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🧟♀️ Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-03-03
Ray-traced Half Life 1, a computer in a floppy drive, a Lego brick that plays Doom, and more
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🦸♂️ Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
Gen Zod Chaos, OS/2, Lego Zelda, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-24
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🔭 Da Vinci's gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-17
Da Vinci’s gravity notes, breaking ChatGPT, and a thousand dollar Atari 2600 game set
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💾 What's a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-10
What’s a floppy disk, PC port of Link to the Past, pictures of the Lisa and more.
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📽 Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
Practical effects, Schoolhouse Rock, and the last 747 - This Geek in Review for 2023-02-03
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🧱 Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-27
Unix is dead, OS/2 Warp, the worst Macs of all time and more.
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🧙♂️ D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
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🧙♀️ New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-13
New D&D license, ChatGPT and Dr. Sbaitso, and more
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🖥 3D printed '50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
3D printed ’50s style computer case, Win7 in 128MB of RAM, and cats at terminal velocity - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-06
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📱 Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-30
Emulating iOS, how Pitfall on the 2600 works, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12- 30
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💎 Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-23
Atari GEM on PalmOS, Leo Laporte, banning Tik Tok, and more,
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💾 Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
Unix workstations, fusion energy, the history of SGI, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-16
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🎞 A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
A few trailers, geek history, 52 things learned in 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-09
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🖥 macOS on a Wii, Gamecube's hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-12-02
macOS on a Wii, Gamecube’s hidden eject button, A BeBox case for your Pi and more
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🌟 Finding love at the Star Wars premiere, learning about the Scream Test, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-25
Finding love at the Star Wars premiere, learning about the Scream Test, and more
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👾 Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
Atari at 50, Dungeon Master shortage, and MFA on your C64 - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-18
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🤕 Die in the game and this VR headset will kill you, Raspberry Pi projects, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-11
Die in the game and this VR headset will kill you, Raspberry Pi projects, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-11
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🎾 No more Lego Mindstorms, world's fastest shoes, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-04
No more Lego Mindstorms, world’s fastest shoes, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-11-04
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🎹 The C64 Accordian, James Gunn leading DC Studios, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-28
The C64 Accordian, James Gunn leading DC Studios, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-28
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📝 Doom running in Windows Notepad, issues with adult videos streaming in Splatoon and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-21
Doom running in Windows Notepad, issues with adult videos streaming in Splatoon and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-21
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🌿 Plants with machetes, Dvorak keyboard for your iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-14
Plants with machetes, Dvorak keyboard for your iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-14
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🐻 Virtual pets in Virtual Studio, interview with AI Linux, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-07
Virtual pets in Virtual Studio, interview with AI Linux, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-10-07
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💾 Add hard drive sounds to your flash based retro PC, canceled Star Trek films and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-30
Add hard drive sounds to your flash based retro PC, canceled Star Trek films and more.
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📱 A multiwindow PalmOS operating system, a keyboard display box, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-23
A multiwindow PalmOS operating system, a keyboard display box, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-23
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🕵️♀️ Goldeneye 007, floppy disks, and the 2600 at 45, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-16
Goldeneye 007, floppy disks, and the 2600 at 45, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-16
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🚂 Steam powered Pis, AI art, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-09
Powering a Raspberry Pi with Steam, using AI to create art, and more. This Geek in Review
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🎆 Hacking over USB, Rickrolling a school district, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-02
Hacking over USB, Rickrolling a school district, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-09-02
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😎 Of course Doom made the list this week and more geekery - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-26
A terrible, terrible version of Doom and more - This Geek in Review
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🕹 The birth of the arcade fighter genre, songs crashing hard drives, and more spying from Meta - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-19
The birth of the arcade fighter genre, songs crashing hard drives, and more spying from Meta - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-19
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🌐 The boring web, ranting at remote work, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-12
The web has gotten boring, a writer complains about remote work, and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-08-12.
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📡 Charter Spectrum owes $7B, Weird Al, and the passing of Nichelle Nichols - This Geek in Review for 2022-08-05
Charter Spectrum owes $7B, Weird Al, and the passing of Nichelle Nichols
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🌴 Vacation edition - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-29
No commentary this week, but a ton of links that I found interesting.
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👨💻 ChromeOS for Macs and PCs; riding when old; and videogames for life - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-22
ChromeOS is a good solution for the family tech support issues. Also, it is you on why roller coasters aren’t as fun and building skills with video games
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🌞 The lazy days of summer - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-15
The lazy days of summer are upon us!
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📱 My phone is always on silent, putting Macs out to pasture, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-08
My phone is always on silent. Apple is decreasing the number of years macOS gets updates on hardware, is that going to be a problem? And more geekery!
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🎶 John Williams retiring and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-07-01
Who can replace John Williams When you think of movie scores, at the top of the list is John Williams. From the scoring of the first summer blockbust Jaws to Indiana Jones 5, the man has cemented his legendary status as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, film composers of all time. Come to think of it, could you find someone that doesn’t recognize at least one of his scores?
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🕹 Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-24
Atari Lives, IE does not, and the minions are coming.
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👨💻 Browser ad blocking, the Facebook Portal, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-17
Browser ad blocking, the Facebook Portal, and more. This Geek in Review for 2022-06-17.
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🎹 RIP Dave Smith, here comes Beavis & Butt-Head, and celebrating The Wrath of Khan - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-10
A legend in digital music, Dave Smith passed away this week. Beavis and Butt-Head are coming to Paramount+, and The Wrath of Khan turns 40. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-06-10.
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👾 Defining retro, Whiz Kids, developing in the cloud - This Geek in Review for 2022-06-03
Some thoughts on defining retrogaming, watching Whiz Kids, and Microsoft is offering developing in the cloud.
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🕸 Marvel is getting complicated, movie pace, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-27
How complicated can the MCU get? And can movies be slow paced in the 21st century? All this and more in this Geek in Review for 2022-05-27
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🧱 Lego bricks and internet travels - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-20
How do you play with Legos?
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🎶 No more iPod, freaky retro game prices, searching the internet, and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-05-13
The iPod is dead, retro game prices are suspect, searching the internet, and more in This Geek in Review
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📺 No more scripted TV, OJ in your cereal and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-05-06
The scripted show is going extinct Warner Bros. and the Discovery channel are cutting scripted shows. This affects shows at TNT and TBS. I don’t know what was a factor in this decision, but I can’t help to think that Netflix’s losses didn’t help.
Is the scripted show dead? Of course not. Even during the worst times of TV there still have been shows. What is missing from the current crop of shows is re-watchability.
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💲 I'd buy that for $44B and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-29
Musk buys Twitter, confusing references on Friends, and more - This week in Review for 2022-04-29
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👩💻 The WE in World Wide WEb and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-22
Putting the WE into World Wide WEb, the Apple ][ hits 45, and more in this geek in review for April 22nd, 2022
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💾 Our computers are more powerful than ever, but are we using that power? - More in this Geek in Review for 2022-04-15
Powerful computers, Reddit, and more in this geek in review.
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👩💻 More Meta shenanigans, alternative uses for the Apple Watch, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-08
Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.
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Gifs, the TRS-80, the last blockbuster movie, Apple, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-04-01
The creators of gifs and the TRS-80 have passed away. Also, have we reached peak original blockbuster movie? And, Apple has come up with another way to make money. All this and more!
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🏀 A new look for the NBA, 80s tiny PCs, Steve Jobs, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-25
The NBA is trying out a new way to watch basketball. I also talk about small, affordable early 80s computers and look at a job application that Steve Jobs filled out. And more!
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📺 Ads in streaming, Apple, and the Fantastic Four - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-18
Disney+ is rumored to begin having a lower ad support tier. Apple has released new products, and people are wondering when we’ll see a new Fantastic Four movie. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 2022-03-18.
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🤖 Bender is back, an AlphaGo documentary, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-11
Bender is back, an AlphaGo documentary, and more on This Geek in Review!
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🌌 Multiverse perils, discless retrogaming, longer TikToks, and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-03-04
What’s wrong with the Marvel Multiverse, discless gaming, and TikTok? All this and more in The Geek in Review.
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🌌 Another Kelvin timeline Star Trek, John Williams, and downloadable gaming - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-25
I’ve got a bad feeling about the next Star Trek movie, John Williams is back, and no disc gaming. All this and more on This Geek in Review.
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💰 Modern day Bonnie & Clyde, Madden Football love, Futurama and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-18
Modern day Bonnie & Clyde, Madden Football love, Futurama and more - This Geek in Review
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🎬 Long movies, Oregon Trail, Buzz Lightyear and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-11
Long movies, Oregon Trail, and Buzz Lightyear. All this and more in This Geek in Review for 11 Feb 2022.
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BlackBerry is still a thing, and Sony made moves - This Geek in Review for 2022-02-04
BlackBerry sold its mobile patents, Sony buys Bungie, and more in this geek in review.
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Multiversus could be the ultimate platform brawler and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-28
Multiversus looks like it’s going to be pretty fun platform brawler. The character selection is amazing! And there’s much more!
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Wordle is sweeping the world and more - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-21
Wordle is sweeping the world!
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The iconic iMac G4 turns 20 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-14
The iconic iMac G4 turns 20, Facebook is still creepin’ on you, and more.
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📅 Welcome to 2022 - This Geek in Review for 2022-01-07
We have lost a legend in Betty White and Blackberry.
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🎉 New Years Eve Edition - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-31
The James Webb telescope has launched! And more in This Geek in Review
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🎄 Christmas Eve edition of this Geek in Review for 2021-12-24
Christmas Eve is here, so I hope you all survived the feats of strength yesterday.
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📺 The worst TV sitcoms from the last ten years and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-17
If these are the worst sitcoms, then we’re doing pretty well.
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🤣 Rogers, the Musical and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-10
One of the best things of the Hawkeye TV show is Rogers, The Musical, and now we have a full length song from it. Hopefully more will be coming!
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🕵️ And this is why people have trust issues - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-03
First rule of viral marketing - don’t lie. Plus a ton of geek, retro, and more stuff.
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📖 "He card read good" - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-26
Writing poorly is big business with Grammerly, and, just how awesome was 1980? Read more to see the sites I visited this week on the internet.
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👾 Happy 20th Xbox and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-19
Happy 20th Xbox! Here’s to another 20!
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👾 8-bit Christmas movie and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-12
Neil Patrick Harris stars in an upcoming Christmas movie, 8-bit Christmas, voice chat over IRC, and more.
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😱 A Facebook of any other name - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-05
All your virtual worlds belong to Facebook… I mean, Meta.
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📱 The $17,000 iPhone and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-29
That fancy new smartphone is more expensive than you may have realized.
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👨💻 New Apple MacBook Pros and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-22
New Macbook Pros, The Batman, and more geek travels
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🚀 Captain Kirk reaches space, G4 TV is back, retro, geeky things and more! - This Geek in Review for 2021-10-15
Captain Kirk reaches space, G4 TV is back, retro, geeky things and more!
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🗣️ Facebook's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week This Geek in Review for 2021-10-08
Facebook went down, putting Whatsapp, Instagram, and more out of commission. And then to twist the knife, a Facebook whistleblower explained to congress how evil Facebook has become. My geek travels went from Mick Jagger to cheating on tests to wedding photos taken with the Gameboy camera.
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✨ This Geek in Review for 2021-10-01
I’m going to try something different with my This Geek in Review posts. Instead of creating individual posts for various cool things I find on the internet, I’m going to post one list on Fridays.
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The Empire really strikes back and more - This Geek in Review for 17 Jul 2020
The 80s are back! We are living in strange times, especially when The Empire Strikes Back and Ghostbusters top the box office charts almost over 35 years after their initial release. I wish it didn’t take a pandemic for some of these great movies to get some theater screen time.
In other 80s movie news comes the story behind The Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance in Beverly Hills Cop. The song was originally released in 1983, but didn’t become popular until it was attached to Beverly Hills Cop.
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Wait, according to my Star Wars calendar, the moon is called Endor, BUT SO IS THE GAS GIANT IT'S ORBITING?
What genius thought that was a good idea?
Tag: theabyss
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Tag: theflash
Tag: thegrayman
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The Gray Man 13 word review
So many drone shots, decent action flick. Ryan Gosling can do no wrong.
Tag: themarvels
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The Marvels 13 Word Review
Great movie with an outstanding cast, quotes, humor that felt natural unlike Quantumania.
Tag: theoffice
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🏢 Jim and Pam's proposal cost the show $250,000!
Jenna Fischer has given us a behind the scene look on Jim and Pam’s proposal at the “gas station”. I’m sure they had a good reason to build a set, but, still.
Tag: theorville
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🦠 What I learned after 5 days of isolation
Right before Thanksgiving I tested positive for the ‘Vid, which meant I received the opportunity to isolate in my basement for 5 days. Here’s what I learned.
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Hey look, Marina Sirtis is in the episode of The Orville
I wonder when Jonathan Frakes will show up… (waits 17 seconds) ‘Directed by Jonathan Frakes’ Bingo!
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I'm watching The Orville for the first time and am so sorry I never watched it before.
S02E06 seals it for me. A whole orchestra and a significant amount of playtime? Absolutely amazing. +100 GozPoints to Seth MacFarlane.
Tag: theprintshop
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🖨 Layout your signs, cards, and banners in The Print Shop - now available online!
In the 80s and 90s, almost every sign created was done in The Print Shop. Today, it’s more difficult to get an Apple II set up and printer going. Never fear, because now you can use The Print Shop online! Once your creation is complete, you can download it as a PDF to print out on any print you have.
Tag: thewayofwater
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Tag: ti
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My first portable computer, the TI-74
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
Tag: ti-74
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My first portable computer, the TI-74
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
Tag: ti74
Tag: tiger
Tag: tiktok
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👠 Games with high heels and long nails are going viral thanks to TikTok
I love the strange and the weird as much as the next guy and stories about games with high heels and long nails going viral doesn’t make me wonder, it makes me disappointed. How did I not think of it first?!?
Tag: til
Tag: time
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⌚ Why watches use IIII instead of IV
Some of the things I find on the internet are fascinating, and the story behing the use of the Roman numberal IIII instead of IV is pretty cool.
Tag: tmux
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Session aliases with tmux
I use tmux as my screen multiplexer, and in the past, I used control-A d to disconnect and tmux a -d to reattach to the session. This gets cumbersome if I haven’t created a tmux session yet, since tmux a -d will give me an error that no session exists.
Aliases to the rescue To help start sessions, and now name them, I use the following alias:
alias tma="tmux new -ADs" To create a session named main or re-attach to a disconnected session, I can now type tma main.
Tag: tng
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The latter part of the first season of TNG has a lot of showing off what they could do with production values
Angel One shows several transporter sequences with others moving in the shot, and 11001001 opens with some nice space shots. Not that I’m complaining!
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Hey look, Marina Sirtis is in the episode of The Orville
I wonder when Jonathan Frakes will show up… (waits 17 seconds) ‘Directed by Jonathan Frakes’ Bingo!
Tag: todo.txt
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✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I believe that there are as many ways to manages tasks as there are stars in the sky.
Tag: tool
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📧 Create better out of office messages with this generator
The Out of Office Message Generator will create an out of office message that either links to a random article on Wikipedia, posts a quote from Wikipedia, or both. For example:
While I’m away you can read about famous shoe throwing incidents on Wikipedia, or ponder this beautiful quote: “There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell.
Tag: transformers
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🤖 Transformers - The Movie Returns to Theaters for its 35th Anniversary
There are days you wake up and think it’s going to just be another boring day when you are pleasantly surprised by something awesome. Transformers: The Movie is coming back to the theaters in September for its 35th anniversary.
The movie does have some issues, especially with how they decided to make us all want new toys, but the soundtrack is spot on. Stan Bush rocks it, along with Weird Al.
Tag: tv
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The latter part of the first season of TNG has a lot of showing off what they could do with production values
Angel One shows several transporter sequences with others moving in the shot, and 11001001 opens with some nice space shots. Not that I’m complaining!
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📺 The worst TV sitcoms from the last ten years and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-12-17
If these are the worst sitcoms, then we’re doing pretty well.
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📺 Why did so many 90s sitcoms have a Disney World episode?
If you watched sitcoms in the 90s, you inevitably watched an episode where the characters traveled to Disney World and hilarity ensued. But why? The CEO at the time, Michael Eisner, invited any and all sitcoms to pitch an idea. If it was approved, they could film at Disney World. One notable sitcom at the time, Friends, did not get their story approved. Apparently, Joey hooking up with Cinderella was a little to risque for Eisner.
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🎶 The Seinfeld music mashup that you didn't know you needed
When I lose faith in what the internet can produce, I’m going to come back to this video.
Tag: tweetbot
Tag: twitch
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Anyone have anything they want to see me stream tonight at 7:30pm?
I’ve been playing Atari 8-bit games, but I’m always up for something else!
Tag: twitter
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For those that still have to be on the bird site, use lists
Create a list and only open that list on the site. You’ll only see the the most relevant tweets since they are from the people you specifically chose, without any recommendations or other stuff.
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👩 A 50 year old man in Japan became a famous young woman on Twitter
By using FaceApp, Yasuo Nakajima became a Twitter sensation with tens of thousands of followers. He did it because “no one wants to read what a normal middle-aged man posts”.
If you are reading this, you are one of the “no one”.
Tag: typewriters
Tag: ubuntu
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📶 A Comcast customer used bittorrent to download Ubunut and hilarity ensued
A Comcast customer wanted to use Ubuntu and decided to download it over Bittorrent. His reward? A DMCA notice. Just to be clear, Ubuntu is freely distributable, and using Bittorrent to download files is also legal.
Tag: unhelpfulreviews
Tag: unix
Tag: usps
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🤖 USPS Star Wars Droid stamps virtual event
To commemorate the release of the Star Wars Droids Commemorative Forever® Stamps, the United States Postal Service is hosting a virtual dedication ceremony on Facebook and Twitter on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth.
Tag: utility
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📝 Expand text with my favorite tool, Espanso!
Using automatic text expansion with Espanso is an easy way to be very productive
Tag: vice
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🎮 Here's a look from Vice inside the world's largest video game cheating empire
I didn’t know there were so many posers paying for video game cheats. Vice looks at the cheating group that made $70 million off of PUBG. The only winners in this are the people selling the cheats, because the players playing the game lose on both sides.
Tag: video
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📹 Saving social media videos to your phone
This is an overkill solution to saving social media videos to my iPhone.
Tag: videogames
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Finally installed my 14T drive in my desktop.
I can now install all of the Epic/GoG/Steam sales/free games I’ve acquired this month.
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🎮 Here's a look from Vice inside the world's largest video game cheating empire
I didn’t know there were so many posers paying for video game cheats. Vice looks at the cheating group that made $70 million off of PUBG. The only winners in this are the people selling the cheats, because the players playing the game lose on both sides.
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🕹 If you like video games, there's a good change you'll like Smiley Crew's ArcadeFest
The Smiley Crew’s Arcadefest has a couple of html5 games with the old arcade feel. All for free!
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🧟 Finally, you can officially play Doom and Doom II in widescreen
Too bad there aren’t any widescreen CRT monitors available, so I guess you’ll need to play the new official widescreen version of Doom and Doom II on an LCD.
Tag: vim
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📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI A journal is a great way to remember things that happen, or to take note of something that may be useful in the future.
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🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II
This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI To work with my files in plain text, I use the following tools.
Tag: voyager
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🚀 Did the Star Trek Voyager finale missed its mark?
On the 20th anniversary of the Star Trek Voyager finale, The Hollywood Report laments on how the finale missed its greatness. The biggest argument was that we didn’t see how the crew re-assimilated (pun intended) back into their old life. My biggest beef with the finale was how they castrated the borg, but we’ll save that discussion for another day.
In the case of the finale being underwhelming, let’s look back at a great TV show that had the same premise, Gilligan’s Island.
Tag: warcraft
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Tag: warhammer40k
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🔮 The Warhammer 40K timeline in 20 minutes
I know nothing about Warhammer 40K, except that it involves the painting of incredibly intricate figurines. This video makes me want to learn more.
Tag: watches
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⌚ Why watches use IIII instead of IV
Some of the things I find on the internet are fascinating, and the story behing the use of the Roman numberal IIII instead of IV is pretty cool.
Tag: web
Tag: website
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Adding commments to my static web site with hashover
One of my biggest issues with running a static website is that having comments on posts isn’t very straightforward. Thankfully, Hashover exists.
Tag: weed
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⚡ The UK police raided what they thought was a weed farm, but was a totally different kind of farm
One way that police track down illegal weed growers is to monitor energy usage. However, there is another profitable venture with free energy, and that is mining Bitcoin.
Tag: wfh
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👩🏭 Google may have saved over $1 billion dollars with working from home
With the pandemic shutting down offices, Google projects that it saved over a billion dollars by not having workers in the office. And they made even more money.
Tag: whatif
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👩💻 How to save the Atari Home Computer Division in 1982
What could have Atari done in 1982 to save themselves?
Tag: wifi
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📶 iPhone bug breaks Wifi
There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.
Tag: wii
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🤸♀️ 3,186 days of dedication
A user posted over at Reddit a picture of his 79 year old dad’s dedication to Wii Fit. Unfortunately, it looks like the moderators removed the post, but I saved the picture:
Tag: win11
Tag: windows
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💻 My favorite Windows apps
This past week I bought a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Nano (say that five times fast). It’s been awhile since I have set up a new machine, so I started to document setting this one up. I’m surprised how quickly I had it set up, no wonder I haven’t automated it.
In no particular order, here are the apps I use regularly.
Browsers Windows comes with Edge installed, but I also install Google Chrome, Brave, and Firefox.
Tag: windowsxp
Tag: winter
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Tag: xarcade
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I finally got around to upgrading my X-Arcade joystick to USB
I’ve only been sitting on the kit for 6 years…
Tag: xbox
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👾 Happy 20th Xbox and more - This Geek in Review for 2021-11-19
Happy 20th Xbox! Here’s to another 20!
Tag: yes!
Tag: youtube
Tag: zillow
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🏠 Here's a house for you in Dallas
If you ever wanted to live in a data center, then I have the house for you. There is one bathroom, but you’re on your own for a bedroom.
Tag: zoom
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🚗 Ohio senator attends Zoom call while driving
In another attempt of Ohio attempting to out do Florida, an Ohio state senator attended a government meeting on Zoom… WHILE DRIVING!
I could give him the benefit of the doubt that he attends to phone calls while driving, and he could have done the same thing here. Except he was messing with virtual backgrounds and fiddling with the camera.
And he picked a home office for his background.
At least he had his seat belt on.