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old internet. grew up on gopher and irc, never wanted to leave. made a bunch of weird stuff. corpo drone day job. adult goth. austin, tx. my pronouns are he/him.
Major interests include #Zines #Austin #Libraries #PostPunk #FactoryRecords #Comics #ShippingContainers #MaxHeadroom
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Joined April 12, 2025
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Very crusty but still working payphone in downtown Athens
Ladies and gentlemen, we have Linux on the desktop
Very pleased to release the headroom command which will put an animated Max Headroom directly in your terminal window so he can laugh at the ridiculous name you gave your hard disk.
Instructions to install are here:
https://benbrown.com/txt/read/2026-05-01
Enjoy!!!!
I think a lot about the pastfuture, visions of the future from the past that could have been but never were. Like, what if we traded apps on minidiscs? What if you jacked into cyberspace via a payphone?
Anyways, here’s finger running on a pager:
I took my, uh, glowing power sword outside and it DRANK DEEPLY from the TEXAS SUMMER SUN so when I went back inside it GLOWED WITH RENEWED VIGOR!!!
"Dad, your office is cluttered with toys," said my son.
"What do you want me to do about it?" I said, defensively.
"Get bigger shelves so you can fit more toys," he said.
This looks cool: RSS-only publishing system. I've had this same idea.
My teenager who says she hates school had a project titled "Pixel Park Tycoon" where she built an adventure game in scratch based on her favorite manga.
how can the day be so long
Max on everything
I gave my son access to a code generator. He made a version of tic-tac-toe where you can unlock different marks to play with, then a concept of a "bomb" where your turn destroys the surrounding marks and HOLY CRAP PEOPLE HE INVENTED A TOTALLY NEW GAME.
My family does not appreciate that I created a tiny pocket synthesizer
I have been spending a lot of time with a new friend and his name is ESP32.
Headed to the local arcade where I will win many many many tickets an embarrassment of tickets
Happy Star Trek day! Live long and prosper. 🖖🏻
Look what I just got
Sweet fancy Moses, this is like something out of Tim Burton’s twisted vision of hell!
Eliza, cutting right to the heart of it really.
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Woo!! My copy is ready to be picked up at my local indie bookstore!!
The sporting good store had a SPEAR and the “machete” which is clearly a razor sharp sword. These were next to the three packs of ninja stars.
Wow this is a really great podcast episode!! I love this line:
"So, Ben Brown is a cool guy." @andypiper@macaw.social
> https://gamesatwork.biz/2026/05/11/e553-monks-bots-ghosts/
New txt file drop, lol.
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it works because it outputting terminal control codes. so cool.
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@Brilliantcrank@mastodon.social not sure about blue ray but the cheapo usb DVD drive I bought 10 years ago is still going strong
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@frigginglorious@freeradical.zone ffmpeg to extract frames, then a js lib called jimp to pull the pixel data out
The new voice / same face thing going on with Stranger Things cartoon is really tough, fake David Harbour especially. But weirdly Janeane Garofolo is in half the episodes?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27486290/characters/nm0000413/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_3_10
Saw a sign for 4 grilled lamb skewers for 2.5€, in Austin this would cost $37 and you would have to pay for parking