Paul Carbone

Celebrating the United States right now is like if the Titanic band was selling merch.

It’s been a bit since I posted an oscilloscope photo, and that feels wrong. 
So here’s a #tektronix 7854

Vintage oscilloscope prices skyrocket

The Venn Diagram I imagine every time I install a window AC

Is there a Konami code for unlimited cells?

“THIS IS A 7:00AM TRAIN, PLEASE PUT YOUR HEADPHONES IN IF YOU’RE LISTENING YOUR PHONE. THANK YOU”
I just said at full voice in the train.
Dafaq is wrong with people?

A Simpsons screenshot with Krusty the Clown at the Krusty Komedy Klassic, with the letters KKK behind him

The Kinship Klub

Because Jacksonville is the Staten Island of Florida?

Lol the NY Post, never stop being a racist uncle from Staten Island

“…and handing victory to the Israel-bashing, Uganda-born Mamdani, who only became a US citizen in 2018.”

Killing a billionaire in NYC will be a misdemeanor, punishable by 4 hours of community service.

"AllTrails has a new generative Al feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they've been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information." AllTrails launches Al route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members One of the world's most popular hiking apps has a new generative Al feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." Quark Bee @quarkbee.bsky.social • 2d so basically it's doordash for bears

“Door dash for bears” 😄

New favorite insult dropped:

“If you fall for this now, with decades of hindsight from the War on Terror you should probably have someone follow you around and smack your hand anytime you're about to trade your family's cow for magic beans”

The only problem was he had a lot of ground to cover, so he’d just creep down the road but wouldn’t really stop unless stopped by someone. Which meant when you heard the bell, you had to grab your knives and run down the street chasing him like a knife wielding maniac.
#NYC

Things I miss from city living: Mike’s Knife Sharpening truck. He’d drive around in this funny little truck and bang on a bell to let you know he was near by. He was from south brooklyn but we’d see him up in northern Manhattan at least once a year.
#NYC

Killing a billionaire should be at most a misdemeanor.

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

Asimov’s first rule of vacuum cleaners:
A vacuum must always be able to roll over its own cord.
Looking at you Miele.

Dear every company:
Please kindly fuck right off with your apps. It’s a web page. It looks the same as your webpage.
You didn’t write it in C or C++ or C# or Cb or C for workgroups or rust or whatever. Its. A fucking. Web page.
Don’t make be install a 300MB web browser that’s only good for one site.

Luddites weren't anti-tech.

They were against technology being used by the capitalist class to capture wealth at the expense of the worker.

I am a Luddite, and a tech enthusiast. They're not in opposition. I want technology that makes MY life better, not that sells my life piecemeal to corps.

“Is your video violent pornography, or the teletubbies?”
I feel like there’s a -big- middle ground missing from these two categories I apparently must choose between 
#youTube #coppa

There’s an ethereal beauty of an analog sampling scope /almost/ working 
#oscilloscope #analog #electronics #crt #retroTech

We've got an All-Timer right here folks!

I drove to NJ yesterday and as soon as I crossed the border the speedometer switched to strip malls per hour.

Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon.

Corporate public messaging systems do not exist to facilitate communication.

They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's. It.

Come join us on the #fediverse

I’m gonna refine the shit out of some macro data
(Yeah, I know it’s not the same model… )
#severance #retroComputing

I’m gonna be really mad if his death isn’t televised, be it natural causes or otherwise.

To anyone who ever worked on the Deltek/Maconomy expense reporting platform:
Your work is bad, and you should feel bad.

Ah Seattle, I forgot how much your airport… well… it’s an airport. Good for you for trying.

And the guy who gives the knot of skin behind her head a quarter turn every few days.