phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
@phooky sixteen purple/uv LEDs and a hand pulled length of 5cm wide glow in the dark tape. I need to build the tape mechanism and figure out the interactivity for the upcoming show.
I love this weird typographical illustration for this 1998 xerox patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6230170B1/en "Spatial morphing of text to accommodate annotations"
The wikipedia article for Cracklin' Oat Bran has an unexpected illustration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracklin%27_Oat_Bran
The static has taken form, and it is now a ghost that speaks in a code I cannot begin to understand.
Though this certainly isn't the first time somebody has used UVB-76 to broadcast words, it's rare. It always raises my hackles whenever it happens; somebody is tearing holes in my security blanket, and I don't like it.
Current vibes
@phooky @ardgedee any solutions? Maybe something to build CPUs using technology similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Solid_Logic_Technology ?
i am really unimpressed with TI's RPMsg implementation. I would go as far as to say, _deeply unimpressed_.
You have to make something really horrible for me to miss pruss_uio.
The Juul is the most cyberpunk fucking thing I've seen in the past decade, and it's genius.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of-vaping-and-the-rise-of-juul
Is using oulipo dot social a political act, and if so, what can it signify?
What is implicit in what I am saying by posting at this spot and not say robot dot town or occult dot club or what you will
I just watched This Is America and was completely gutted, and then watched this Philip Glass-scored Sesame Street clip to be reminded that the universe doesn't need sentient beings anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D--qSD01VRA
Just made one of the most successful dishes of my dad career. Catfish fillets w/ fresh dill, thyme, lemon. So good.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 running on Olivetti Quaderno PT-XT-20 from 1992
Photo by Jirka Zima
https://swarmik.tumblr.com/post/159279593774/ms-flight-simulator-30-running-on-olivetti
Summer is coming...
based on what i'm hearing from outside my window right now, amazon echo is about as unreliable at interpreting a strong Mexican accent as it is my uninflected nerd accent, so good on you amazon for at least equal opportunity sucking
i'm sorry but if "incels" aren't willing to fuck each other, then they're just "cels"
Okay, retrocomputing nerds: anyone recognize this weird-ass midplane I've had kicking around? Probably old IBM equipment.
Boost if you think it will help.
@jk Loudly defending the human brain because we bought one and now we're stuck using it, so we've retroactively decided all its worst traits are actually Important Features
"Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The rest of Mark Bittman's "How To Cook Everything"... IT'S A COOKBOOK!"
