Twitter Without Twitter

OS9 tried to warn us

23 Aug 2020

Twitter is having a little trouble. I’m going to back up some good tweets here. I really did love one liners as a medium. Twitter offers a way to download your tweets, but it’s a long running asynchronous process so I have no idea if it’s going to work. And anyway, it’s neat to look back on this stuff. I suppose I should also mention that I made a mastodon profile but I can’t promise I’ll use it.

A good #codereview is like an all-you-can-eat buffet: an opportunity for personal growth

18 feb 2020

To keep things light, all future discussions of employee salaries will use “smackeroos” instead of dollars. Thanks.

29 Aug 2022

Be @arborday
> Send entire packet of mail made of dead trees
> I mean we’re talking about bookmarks, a calendar, personalized correspondence labels, a survey, and a certificate of completion for the survey
> At least I’m thinking about it. Well played.

24 Aug 2022

#Security Thought of the day: Piccard set his auto destruct PIN to 0000

21 Aug 2022

Live every day like you’re going to have to give a deposition about it

07 Mar 2022

Jurassic World Producers: Guys we can shave 25% off the CGI budget if the T Rex goes invisible.

27 Feb 2022

Cameras are like spiders: you’re never more than five feet from a camera and you swallow at least seven cameras per year.

19 Feb 2022

Is this really the best way to honor Optimus Prime’s sacrifice?

27 Jan 2022

(sp)

important gift giving tip: if your recipient is a starfish and you’re buying a hat, make sure you buy five.

28 Dec 2021

(sp)

It’s been a two `#git reset –hard HEAD` day, but the windows build finally runs.

19 Dec 2021

Medical tricorders would be a disaster for hypochondriacs.

17 Dec 2021

I miss yesterday when #aws #useast1 wasn’t on fire

07 Dec 2021

When is it ok to start wearing a Santa Hat full time? [urgent]

05 Dec 2021

Day 626. I just took a slug of Maple Syrup like Buddy The Elf.

18 Nov 2021

Let’s pretend that FB never gets back online. Just stop. We’re free now.

04 Oct 2021

Let them eat wifi

20 Aug 2021

(I was visiting Versalles at the time)

Autocorrect… off

25 Jul 2021

(I’ve left it off since)

You die a hero or live to see yourself extradited to the US to face trial

23 Jun 2021

The wikipedia page for “Corner Office” uses an office with the same desk I used to have. Was just weird seeing it again is all.

23 Jun 21

Day 423. Have begun to eat honey straight out of the jar.

07 May 2021

The Hangover has the same plot as The Halloween Tree

03 Feb 2021

Never felt an earthquake before, brand new experience

08 Nov 2020

We said corporations where people because we where too afraid to see the truth: people are corporations

16 Sept 2020

Thou shalt not remind someone of a zoom meeting without providing a link in that selfsame message.

11 Sept 2020

Spoiler alert: The Departed has the same plot as Face/Off.

23 July 2020

macOS (OSX) has now lasted longer than Classic MacOS did. #macOS

02 July 2020

USB-C is the most comfortable USB type to put up your nose.

25 June 2020

Power’s out. Now we have to entertain ourselves without our electronic devices. #itgotworse

13 Apr 2020

Got power back last night. Refrigerator compressor motor never sounded so good.

15 Apr 2020

So glad everyone has successfully retired all of their #Python2 code.

02 Jan 2020

I fixed the cybertruck

24 Nov 2019

#DearWebDevelopers: If a button can’t be opened in a new tab, it represents a risk and a commitment, and I’m probably not confident enough for ether.

30 Jul 2019

I think I’m buying the last umbrella in the south station CVS. Sorry guys. I don’t even like umbrellas

19 Jul 2019

Detective Duck in: Murder Most Waterfowl

01 July 2019

Wearing shoes you can’t run in is about as reasonable as Superman wearing a kriptonite necklace

10 Apr 2019

Me: Peanut butter and celery, name a more iconic duo

Sabrina: Peanutbutter and jelly

Me: 🤔

23 Mar 2019

Only in #CambMA do you see a breadboard project on a bike

27 Mar 2018

soylent bottle tower on my desk at work. #bluetac

15 Nov 2017

LEGO Shop At Home Scans: 95-99

A while back, I was trying to find a specific Lego catalog that I’d looked at as a kid. However, when I tried to find the specific one I was looking for, I realized that very few of these catalogs from the 90s had been immortalized by the internet. However, many of them where on sale for reasonable prices (and Sabrina wanted a Scanner for old family Photos anyway) so I got to work.

? 1995

Holiday 1995

January 1996

Holiday 1996

Spring 1997

Summer 1997

Holiday 1997

January 1998

Spring 1998

Summer 1999

Fall 1999

The raw files are here on my archive.org account, if you find my (largely imagemagick-powered) PDFing of the files inadequate. If the PDFs appear small just zoom in, they’re about as high-res as they can be without creating artifacts on the screens I tried. I plan on also scanning the ones that I personally saved when I was a kid, and will post those here too.

And the specific catalog I was looking for? Turns out it was Holiday 1997. Twenty one years ago. The page I was looking for in particular turns out to be this one.


SYLP is dead, long live SYLP

emf.sdf.org, or “The Shipyard Liberation Project” hasn’t been updated in years. This is mostly because I haven’t had anything to add to it-I think I got every last graphic I could, contacted everyone who’s email address still worked, etc. I’d also all but run out of space for my SDF account (I even had to host the 3d models from Ares on my own site.) Somewhere along the line, I lost access to my SDF account, but by then I was using Unix every day so I didn’t really miss it.

Fast-forward to now, I’ve realized that the fine folks at the Internet Archive have a sweet upload utility that allows you to upload whatever files you want, and (critically) add metadata to them so that some sort of context can be preserved. So I’ve uploaded those files to the archive, you can enjoy them here. That puts out the “what if SDF deletes my account” fire, but some stuff remains:

  • Files with appropriate licenses ended up on OpenGameArt rather than on SDF because I figured more people would see/use it. They ought to be mirrored on the archive.
  • Someone from the Ambrosia forums kindly ripped the graphics from a TC called “The Novel One.” I’ve got the graphics somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find the thread.
  • The “Open Source TC” had some assets at some point, and the notion was that anyone could take it and run with it. I’ve never run across a copy of it (it was hosted on DropBox of all places)
  • The list of missing shipyards on the SDF site still stands – if anyone out there has any of those graphics, I’d love to see them!