Richard Hakala

🎶 I am sailing. . . 🎶

I was serving in the Marine Corps aboard MCAS Futenma, Okinawa when this happened - he was my CINC

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

Come blow your horn! Young musician, garlanded, and painted by the rare and enigmatic Paulus Bor of Amersfoort. We're celebrating him today.

2/2 From Paulus Bor pair: of peasants with grapes and melons, and strangely compacted donkey, 1650. Not sure what Bor was thinking with this animal!

BOOM 💥

Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

Cool!!!

This doorbell in Oaxaca is literally a bell. gastronomad.net/oaxaca

😂

Two people talk to each other. A man, in a striped polo, with an Apple II for a head. A woman, in a blouse, with a Disk II disk drive. They're using their hands animatedly. Illustration drawn by Martin Cannon.

Some people say I focus too much on Commodore computers, but they're just sour appleheads. (Source.)

Or, FBI…

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos Let's Clean an Apple Macintosh Plus Platinum keyboard!

Let's Clean an Apple Macintosh Plus Platinum keyboard!
youtu.be/y0x5FLZZbsA

Interesting

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

Claim of the moment: "Google expects you to be a good consumer and just take it."
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Lemons, oranges, & pomegranates in a wan-li bowl, 1630. Beautiful bounty from Jacob van Hulsdonck of Antwerp, whose day is today.

Dame Stella Rimington, former MI5 director general, dies at 90 Dame Stella was the first female director general of the service and the first to be publicly identified.

RIP Dame Stella, an entrancing speaker, the first female head of the UK's MI5, and a consummate spymaster.

"She died surrounded by her beloved family and dogs." There are worse ways to go.

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills - NASA New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries.

I was at @NASAJPL to watch Curiosity send back that first image. It's the last time I applauded at a press conference, then filed my copy, and got wankered at 2am with other journos.

The landing seemed impossible but NASA nailed it. Happy solar orbit day to the rover that could.

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I think "fabulous" is overstretching it a bit, but the first night is always OK. By Saturday I'll be begging to go home.

I think "fabulous" is overstretching it a bit, but the first night is always OK. By Saturday I'll be begging to go home.

Wessonality | TWiT.TV Apple's Q3 2025 results are here, and Jason Snell has the charts generated and ready to go! Tim Cook holds a rare company-wide meeting to talk about AI. Could Visa take over

New Podcast Episode:
MacBreak Weekly: Wessonality
Apple's Q3 2025 Results Are Here!
with @leolaporte.me, @alexlindsay.bsky.social, @ihnatko.bsky.social, @snell.zone

Finished the C64 game Lester via the C64 Core on the @mega65.bsky.social tonight. Great game that looks very NES with colorful graphics and great music. Well worth a play through and I hope the author does another.

knifegrinder.itch.io/lester

MiSTer FPGA running Lotus Turbo Challenge on the Amiga Core. Testing a Retro Frog Joystick

Spending my evening exploring some Amiga games I've never played on my MiSTer FPGA. I'm also testing this @retrofrog.bsky.social Joystick. Second button can be mapped to any CD32 Button you want, or flip a switch and it's mapped to UP. That's so cool. Rapid Fire is insane!

#Amiga #MiSTerFPGA

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.

Time for some good news! The human world can work together to solve environmental challenges, just like the Montreal Protocol & elimination of CFCs started in the 1980s. By 2035, the ozone “hole” may be completely closed all year long! This Government thanks you all!

news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...

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Life-saving idea! Pass it on!

Gordon 😢

YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot - Topic If You Could Read My Mind

youtube.com/watch?v=jiU2...

I remember something like this from @defcon.bsky.social 12.

Whoa!!