advanced persistent cough

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

In Canada Pepsi is sold in bags

The Sharp Rateca Puter. Up top, left to right: a collapsable TV/radio antenna, brightness and contrast dials, a giant speaker, a smaller speaker, and input for the tapedeck, with the play counters that were more common on the day. Face, left to right: A 4.5 inch CRT (behind a plastic guard), VHF/UHF and radio dials, channel and band selectors (TV/COMP, FM, Shortwave, and Middlewave), the "RATECA PUTER' logo on the battery gauge, AFC switch, mode selector, tape deck controls, audio controls for balance, bass, treble, and volume, and a mollyguard to prevent dials and switches from being mashed (the mollyguard being a signature of Sharp's boomboxes of the time). Face, low: the collapsable carrying handle that doubles as a stand; computer power button; slide-out chiclet keyboard based on Sharp calculators of the day, with number pad; an LED clock, clock controls, alarm controls. Right side: mic jacks, earphone jacks in two different sizes, beat cut switch, fan exhaust, DC and AC power plugs, and a printer port (!). Help I'm trapped in an alt text factory

In the 70s, Sharp had a series of "Latte case" boomboxes; as the line went on, more and more got put into it, like TVs. One of the last in the line was the RatecaPuter - a latte-case boombox with a 2KB computer that could run SHARP Basic programs off of the built in tape deck.

Take the time you need, Jess!

“I wanna feel you on the outside”

happy go lucky

Well now I know what’s gonna be stuck in my head all day

The unlabeled drawer in the cabinet has one (1) DAT tape

Realizing that I wasn’t explicit about this but yes precisely

Are there any devices in this basement that accept any of these media? stay tuned

In my aunt’s basement where there are distinct filing drawers for “minidiscs”, “cassettes“, “diskettes”, and “zip disks”

I've previously avoided mentioning this out of respect, but now seems like a good time to mention that Darren Aronofsky got his start co-directing the abysmal 1997 Full Motion Video (FMV) rail-shooter game Soldier Boyz

This guy!! I e-borrowed his series from Canopy years and years ago when I was taking chemistry night classes! I still remember the guitar sting over all the title cards (which i feel like he had to perform himself)

Been meaning to check out Slab’s for ages!!

First trailer for Boots Riley’s ‘I LOVE BOOSTERS’:

• Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Don Cheadle, LaKeith Stanfield, and Demi Moore

• Follows a ring of shoplifters targeting a cutthroat fashion maven

• In theaters May 22

#ILoveBoosters #BootsRiley #KekePalmer

Is there anything more satisfying than preemptively being a hater of something, checking it out just to give it a fair shake, and discovering that it sucks even more than you had expected

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Looking forward to picking up those Thinking Machines-branded dumbbells for cheap at auction in a few years

YouTube video by Jet Li A message from Jet Li

Jet Li has started a YouTube channel and it seems like his intention is “Jet Li wants to be your dad” and hell yes be all of our dads Jet Li

That’s right

a dreary sky, a lonely grey concrete tower in the center. there are chambers on the base that a person can enter with stairs leading up to them

a brutalist concrete lobby, with nice carpet, furniture, and plants hanging from suspended planters. the lighting is warm and welcoming

a cavernous gallery room, with a high ceiling and artificial sun panels pouring warm diffused light into the room. there is a statue of a floating octahedron in the center. plants and vines hang down from the walls. the room branches off into other chambers.

view of a tall, oddly shaped hallway. carpet down the whole length. on the left there is seating, a cabinet, and a large painting of some abstract rock formation.

screenshots of the startmap I built for qbj3 or Quake Brutalist Jam III
some fancy bits in here will be in the coming update, like the paintings and plaques

Take care of yourself.

Now Zane(tm) I can get into

Part two is up! ntaylor.ca/posts/provin...

DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social getting reports that downtown edmonton is filled with shattered windows, damaged buildings, and garbage strewn everywhere. no sign of a riot though June 25, 2024 at 12:34 AM

Could a depressed person do THIS?

*collapses*

One of my 2026 goals is to start writing more, so over the holidays I resurrected my old blog and plopped out a post about silly coding interview problems in the Lean theorem prover dijkstracula.github.io/posts/provin...

Welcome to Gas Town Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!

this is one of the most insane [laudatory] things I’ve read today.

steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...