KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop
Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.
Joined Mar 2018
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Did y'all know there's a remaster of the original Bard's Tale games?
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Interesting look at when computers appeared in comics.
"After much anguished hand-wringing, I narrowed down the finalists for the "First Appearance of a Real Computer in a Comic Book" to three possibilities, two runner-ups, and a lovely Batman comic that I had to include because of the device's outlandish user interface. So six comics in all.""
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Moon Pairs and the Synodic Month
Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace
A Welsh village's broadband service went down at 7am every morning for over a year. They finally tracked it down to electrical interference from a single old TV set whose owner switched it on every morning to watch the news. The "mortified" owner agreed to stop using it immediately, and the problem hasn't happened again.
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when you accidentally fave a toot bc the timeline skipped, that's a rogue like
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your molecules have been declared an unlawful assembly
please disperse into your constituent atoms immediately
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IMO, leaving some things unexplained is good writing. Your story's world should always feel bigger than the story itself.
That's why I like that moment in Lord of the Rings when Gandalf says "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Arnor. The Dark Fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn!" I haven't read the Silmarillion and still have no idea what exactly this all means. And not knowing things like this is captivating!
Gee, nothing creepy about that:
"Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house"
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-drone-security-camera-price-specs-features-amazon
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Youtuber: Do not stare into these lasers at close range.
Me: Don't stare into *any* lasers at close range.
Or any range.
OK, unless you're getting Lasik.
Apparently Mojang hired Anakin Skywalker to write the captions for block descriptions in #Minecraft Earth.
Covid news, Africa (+)
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Awesome. Studio Ghibli is providing images from their movies.
http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013344/
From a Google Translation: "From this month, we will provide scene photos of all Studio Ghibli works in sequence. This month, we will provide 8 works, mainly new works, for a total of 400 pieces.
Feel free to use it within the bounds of common sense."
I was in the area because my dentist is there and I decided it was time to stop postponing the appointments. It was also my first drive on the freeway since March and my first time out of the county since March.
Stopped by my parents' today to say hi across the driveway. First time I'd seen them in person in months. We stood something like 10 feet apart on the driveway wearing masks, but we were in the same place for the first time since...February? Not sure exactly. Talked for about an hour.
And that's why, for instance, you can run Gmail on anything, MS Office on almost anything, but the main Apple program that runs on other operating systems is designed primarily to hook you up with an iPhone (previously an iPod).
It's an older post and predates the rise of smart speakers, but it still fits remarkably well. Remember how the Echo originally was mostly a way to place orders through Amazon?
It reminds me of a blog post I read a few years back comparing the core business of various major tech players:
Apple sells hardware, and they sell software & media to give you something to do with the HW.
MS sells software, and the HW is to give you something to run their software on.
Google sells ads on services, and provides HW & SW to connect to those services.
Amazon sells stuff, and their HW is a way to sell you virtual stuff.
Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.
Joined Mar 2018
