Maybe they have indeed been dead for several minutes and it’s a sign they need to be brought back to life

John Harvey Kellogg is that you?

I went to her live show I think 2 years back in Boston, it was very fun, definitely would go again as long as the content is new!

I leave for Paris tomorrow and while I’ve been planning the trip I had the strangest urge to smoke a cigarette at a streetside cafe sipping some coffee… and I have never smoked in my life. Feels like a real deep cultural meme has gripped me.

“Hey that second photo looks familiar…”

https://thesamueljackson5.bandcamp.com/album/achieve-junk-sofa-melts-sj5-rmxd

I’m not as much of a fan of these remixes as the originals, but still good.
I listen to SJ5 as good atmospheric driving music for misty grey days or drives up through the mountains.

I “programmed” a massive choose-your-own adventure game in powerpoint by using slide links on buttons, and I really wish I could recover that, too… I distinctly remember there being a path where you could be eaten by a banjo.

It’d be one thing if I could maybe go scrounging through my parents basement to find my old PC and image the hdd, but I was such a notorious tinkerer, I was swapping PC parts around constantly and installing a new flavor of linux like every 2 months, so everything is well and clearly wiped many times over.

Even now that I have gotten into photography, looking back, my parents got me a crappy little digital camera in like 2001, and I really wish I could look back at those photos. They never got uploaded anywhere and who knows where they went.

I wish that I could have had the foresight to practice proper data hygiene and backup procedures when I was like 8 so that my brother and I could look at all our old creations.

I don’t usually pay attention to usernames, but I just laughed out loud when I checked their post history. Very rarely do I see a truly shit take on here, but most of the recent posts I remember being real stinkers are all from this same user.

Also the recent obsession with age is very strange.

Does anyone else feel like the list should be chronological and not alphabetical by discipline?

There doesn’t seem to be any contentious edit war regarding the sorting… Maybe this is finally my time to make a major edit.

Probably not, though, there isn’t much to hold the list cohesively either way.

If I have to pick an absolute all-time lifetime favorite game, I would have to take the coward’s way out and give 2 related answers…

SanFransisco Rush 2049 and Toy Commander for the Sega Dreamcast.

Those were the 2 games my brother and I grew up playing, we sunk thousands of hours into each and would make up our own imaginary game modes and just fart around and try to 100% the games.
I still have our original Dreamcast and the original game disks. Technically my brother has the DC right now because he was unemployed for a couple months not too long ago and got into Toy Commander speedrunning lol

Just the memories associated with these games, they’re so close to my heart. Recently I’ve been leaning more on my family for support instead of trying to fight the good fight alone, so I’ve been hanging out with my brother a lot, and we still make references to these games even ~20+ years later.

Plus, I can still pick up Rush 2049 and have a grand ol’ time. Toy Commander doesn’t hold my attention as much anymore, but him and I still play together occasionally when I am at his house.

Huh, so that’s what they are called!
What camera was this shot on? It’s got some real softness to it, but zooming in, there’s some of what my brain is seeing as some processing artifacts from like a cellphone camera or something

This one is from an Olympus D-360L (1.3MP, 2000)

Love it.

My brother is a huge proponent of the toy-lens-on-fancy-camera aesthetic. I don’t even know what camera he’s got, some big Sony Alpha thing, but for the past 5 years he’s pretty much exclusively used a 3D printed manual focus disposable camera lens adapter.

My prolific use of 25 to 30 year old point-and-shoots is so hilariously contrasted by my most recent photography friend. He just bought some crazy Fujifilm X-series something-or-other, and spends like 80% of the time we’re out together tweaking his settings or fussing about the metering or something something about the histogram… I walk up, click one button, produce interesting and memorable photo, walk away lol

I will be in Chicago in November for work! I’m excited to drag some of my cameras with me.

I’m currently reading a book (A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge) where 2 voyages get stranded at the same faraway star system, one is a totalitarian autocracy and the other is a free trading culture. The totalitarian regime gets the upper hand, takes over via manipulation and sabotage, and tries to stifle and outlaw all money and trade. They end up spying on the underground black market trade that pops up and manipulates people into trading and doing work for the regimes benefit without their knowledge… If not money, then goods and services, or any other analog for such. Certain people will always try to accumulate “wealth”, whatever that wealth may be, it doesn’t necessarily have to be legal tender.

The book feels extremely relevant to current events, as the autocratic regime employs a ubiquitous police state and uses an even less ethical analog for AI to control it all. It was published in 1999.

I was looking for someone else to mention this.

The karma system on Reddit trapped me hard and the constant validation seeking was really a drag on my mental health. Getting one negative score comment would ruin my day, I really just want to be understood. I realize how unhealthy that is, but I’m not really sure what to do about it besides just not interacting with that place anymore. I don’t have as much of a problem with being wrong in real life, it’s more the fact that online I have the opportunity to take my time, be meticulous, edit my post to make sure it’s perfect and I have said exactly what I wanted to in the exact way I wanted to…

Coming here and being able to disable the counts has been an absolute dream.

Still doin’ their thing, they released a new album last year! They went on a small new-album tour and that’s when I was able to catch their show.

I found the source of the quote on the bookmark, and it was a quote by Plato out of Phaedrus so it definitely is real lol. It’s somewhat different on the bookmark, but depending on what translation you look at the quote will probably be slightly different anyway. It’s sections 274e to 275b

But when he came to writing, Theuth said, “This branch of learning, O King, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories, for I have discovered an elixir of both memory and wisdom.” The king replied, “Oh most ingenious Theuth, one man is able to invent these skills, but a different person is capable of judging their benefit or harm to those who will use them. And you, as the father of writing, on account of your positive attitude, are now saying that it does the opposite of what it is able to do. This subject will engender forgetfulness in the souls of those who learn it, for they will not make use of memory. Because of their faith in writing, they will be reminded externally by means of unfamiliar marks, and not from within themselves by means of themselves. So, you have discovered an elixir not of memory but of reminding. You will provide the students with a semblance of wisdom, not true wisdom. For having heard a great deal without any teaching they will seem to be extremely knowledgeable, when for the most part they are ignorant, and are difficult people to be with because they have attained a seeming wisdom without being wise.”

I have my font set to Atkinson Hyperlegible, so the lowercase L has a little tail to differentiate it from the capital i, which has its serifs… but in the quote block, the font isn’t enforced for some reason so I had to copy/paste it into this textbox to even see what letter that was.

Interesting stuff that I would have never noticed or thought about otherwise…

I have a bookmark made by the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum that was sneakily tucked into my merch haul last time I saw them live, and it has a quote on it that I will need to wait until I get home to properly remember, and I also want to do more diligence to figure out if it is an actual quote. At the top it says “A WARNING ABOUT READING”, and the quote says something like:

Beware the written language, man was never destined to record their every thought. How will we continue to remember ourselves when we are now able to cast our essence into this new medium, to remove the memories from ourselves so that we are wrought into perpetual forgetfulness?
-Allegedly some ancient guy from the dawn of books

The “Boops Boops in a bucket” photo used to be the main article image on Wikipedia and it tickled me in just the right way, I screenshotted it in 2021.

I went to check on it a couple years later after telling someone about it, and the photo was completely gone from the article! I was so sad. But I still had my screenshot.

Looking now, the bucket photo has returned further down the page!

Looking at the Wikipedia history for this page is funny, there are so many edits for one page for a small little goofy fish. Really shows how much work goes into maintaining that encyclopedia! And looking at the little spats about such things as the color of the bucket, and whether or not it is appropriate to mention such in the caption… Fascinating. EDIT: I keep going deeper. The caption for this exact image has been HOTLY contested. Also it has been said that the bucket is blue, and also that the bucket is turquoise. Also it can’t be decided on if “Boops boops in a bucket” is an appropriate caption because it is literally correct, or if it is “roflcopter nonsense” simply because the name of the fish happens to be silly…

I have a Dell XPS 13 9315, which is roughly the same size as the 11" air (actually slightly smaller), and I absolutely adore it. I didn’t get the highest-end because I didn’t need it, but it’s available with some decent processors and up to 32Gb RAM. It just sucks that everything is soldered to the board and non-upgradeable, and it has only 2 USB C ports, but that’s the price you pay for the size. The battery life is actually astounding, too, I am constantly amazed how long it lasts. The new XPS13 has the weird square flat keys and no border around the touchpad, I’m really glad I got the model I did because the new ones look like a pain to actually use.

Like I can actually do a little bit of light Solidworks on it if I’m not near my desktop, which blew me away. It plays the indie games I like, too, so it basically just does everything I need.

My winter project is to install Linux on it and get it all working the way I want.

Give the book Ra by Qntm a read
The synopsis is strikingly similar… It’s not lazy writing, I really enjoyed that book.