matt bluelander 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

Edgar Allen Poe Jr. is running for state house in my district https://ballotpedia.org/Edgar_Allen_Poe_Jr.

Damn. SimRefinery was found and dumped. https://archive.org/details/simrefinery

Exciting news, everyone: google plus is automatically being upgraded to currents for g suite users. Currents has an "update look and feel to google plus, and provides additional features for users and administrators". Holy shit

God, I just heard the song "Let Forever Be" by the Chemical Brothers and had immediate massive 90s flashbacks. I know the name Chemical Brothers but don't know if I've ever consciously listened to their music; I feel like I heard this song a million times in the year 2000 and it's been sitting in some dusty filing cabinet in my brain ever since. No clue what context I might have heard it in. I get the impression they were one of those "electronica" acts that would license the song to any TV show or ad that approached them, kinda like Moby

I don't think I dislike it it, even in spite of the Oasis connection. They were clearly just trying to make their own version of "Tomorrow Never Knows", which is my favorite Beatles song

"The Game Gear Micro will actually launch in four color variations, each with a different selection of four games. Sega is also selling a combo pack with all four consoles and a snap-on magnifier for the itty-bitty screen."

*extremely protracted farting noise"

Every time I poke at it I'm astonished at what basic things from DOS I should be able to do that are more complicated here for no reason

Like on DOS, I would create a file, e.g. something.bat, and I would but a bunch of commands that I want it to run, and I could just type "something"

On linux you have shell scripts, so it would be something.sh instead of something.bat. Same idea. But you have to type ./ beforehand, and you have to type the extension, which is inconvenient. But worst of all you have to remember to type "chmod +x something.sh" or it won't run at all

Why do I have to give my computer permission to run a script that I personally created on my own dang computer. Argh (rhetorical question, don't answer)

30 day game music challenge https://www.lander.blue/#30-day-game-music-challenge

Messed around with the Mario 64 PC port. It's neat that it exists, but it's very faithful to the original, meaning it's still not exactly playable. Maybe now that this is a thing someone will make some sort of good controls mod

Whoa. The author of "Love" updated it to run at 60fps back in April o_O https://thatsmytrunks.itch.io/love/devlog/134414/love-200a-now-at-60fps

Was frantically looking for a USB-B cable so I could plug in my printer, and I thought I found one, but it was one of these things

USB 3.0 B connectors are different from USB 2.0 B connectors? You shittin me? I hate universal serial bus

Pizza website: get extra cheese for only $1!
Me:

Huh, Herman Hollerith's punch cards seem pretty dang important in computer history but I don't really hear people talk about him that much. I wonder what happened to him?

"Hollerith founded a company that was amalgamated with several other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. In 1924, the company was renamed International Business Machines (IBM)"

Ah

Have a patreon for a podcast or youtube series? Do you thank donors or put their names in the credits? You're selling a taxable good*, pay up asshole https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043054911-New-Sales-Tax-Requirements-effective-July-1st-2020

(*in some jurisdictions)

This is the Mp3 that my alarm chose to wake me up with tonight. Looping over and over. Pretty spooky https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/none-of-this-is-real-26

Ah, my favorite Rare game: Snake, Battle 'n' Toad

Truly an epithet for all occasions. Who among us can't relate

<chuckle>

"Alex Cox, fresh out of UCLA, had a couple of projects fail to get off the ground. He was hired to write a script for United Artists about a WWI deserter but it was deemed 'too English, too expensive and too anti-war.'"

Yes we can't have people thinking WWI was bad. Of all the wars that's the one to glorify, all right

I learned that if you put from:[username] in the search box and click the "latest" tab, you can see all of the posts from that person in reverse chronological order. Useful if you get a link to a twitter post and want to see the full context for it without an account

Boom boom boom boom, my friends were all exhumed. It's nothing super fancy, just basic necromancy