NORAD confirms Santa appears to have collided with an out of control Starlink Satellite

Captains log, day 5, festive outfits contuine

Tues, thurs, friday (wed was rdo)

The month of #christmas shirts commences! //cc @peterw

🎶 Sail away 🎶
🎶 Sail away 🎶
🎶 Sail away 🎶

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
"Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.
"...The games remain commercially available via The Zork Anthology on Good Old Games."
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
And an Ars Technica article about that:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/

I originally beat Zork in the original PDP-10 version, arpanet-ing in to MIT to play it.

The original Zork written in the MDL dialect of Lisp was already available:

"This version of ZORK has been (slightly) changed from the original in order to run on the Confusion MDL Interpreter.
https://github.com/whitten/MDL-Zork

There's also this:
'This directory contains files related to Confusion, an MDL interpreter which, to quote its author, "Works just well enough to play the original Zork all the way through."'
http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/programming/mdl/interpreters/confusion/

Was reminded of my Excel glory days today.

:angery:

Saw a Christmas shirt design I didn't mind… $119 dollars… yeah nah…

@peterw how many dasys has it been up‽

OH YES! Tree climbing “drop crocs!” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lpyrnjleeo

The licence plate.

Caught a mouse! #catsofmastodon #caturday

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum.

The weekend is close, I don't feel like I have energy to work on my little(?) game, so I'm going to try and do the weirdest Windows 3.1 setup out there.

@peterw Christmas Day‽, Christmas Month shirt collections is where its at.

When you are old enough on #irc to remind people about @hampton's #ruby based mobile gateway for #wikimedia projects

Kodak launches Kodacolor 100 and 200 to feed the film resurgence https://www.theverge.com/news/791251/kodak-launches-kodacolor-100-and-200-to-feed-the-film-resurgence

Oh yeah, I got reminded of that time that I stumbled onto a store with a light bulb tester. All these sockets are live at 120v.

@taavi @legoktm Move over goatification, welcome rustification‽