“i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.” https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdogmom.bsky.social/post/3lqj7isldfs2y

Funny what memories that yellow-and-red paint brought to mind, 32,33 years later.

Also reminds me that the state government for which I worked at the time had minimally authenticated dial-in access to a VAX from which I could telnet out or start up SLIP or PPP to do Gopher, FTP, and I think rudimentary (Lynx-based?) www net surfing from my Mac after hours at home.

I was familiar with old-school plaintext emoticons like :-) and ;-), but the simple graphical version in WordPerfect seemed special to me. Kinda funny, given that I had been a graphical UI person used to much more sophisticated text fonts and graphics for a few years at that point.

Though I did have a lot of fun flirting with a crush at this job via the DOS-based #WordPerfect suite’s intraoffice email. The #CP437 character set’s proto-emoji smilies at 0x1 and 0x2 were super helpful for making clear our double-entendres.

I already was several years into my baptised-and-sanctified use of the Mac when I first encountered #Windows31 at a post-college job in late 1992 and 1993. Windows seemed mediocre at best, but the Hot Dog Stand theme was bonkers. I literally did not understand it.

“And then you get to [#Windows31’s] ‘Hot Dog Stand.’ Which is utterly insane. And that makes it quite possibly the greatest color scheme ever devised.” Spinning a deep cut from the legendary @codinghorror. https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme/

It’s a church converted to a roller rink. http://www.churchof8wheels.com

Interior of a church converted to a roller rink. http://www.churchof8wheels.com

Disinformation kills

Like Violet Baudelaire, tying my hair up in a ribbon helps me do my best #Strands thinking.

#Strands454
“Next to the bobby pins”
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I read a thing that depressed me, was going to whine about it, and then decided to think about what I could do that’s positive and productive instead.

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/05/come-make-some-candles-with-me

I’m offering a web development apprenticeship (focused on PHP, HTML, and CSS) to one person during July. Details and application info in the link above. I think it’ll be a lot of fun!

So here is an update on the digital museum as it stands
There is a LOT of stuff in there,
Some of it has been in the #guess that #lego #fossil posts
Some of it has not.
Let me know what you think and what I should try and add (i may be bad at keeping track of suggestions)

Full Credits and Higher def render here (with super high res version rendering now, eta 12hrs or so) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JfsQdhtAOyernFzIW2ZkVrCGMRNvh9K_

Cyndi Lauper, being amazing.

Also, the #SFMuni/#Blackpool boat was out!