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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • My grandfather got really into video archiving and from the early 80s through 2005 amassed about 14,000 video tapes, mostly of various aviation TV shows. He spent his entire life as an engineer for Lockheed. His entire 2-story condo in San Diego was a massive VHS library with shelving extending 8 ft high.

    Anyways, my father and aunt threw it all in a dumpster because they didn’t know what to do with it. All they kept were his ashes… Which almost 20 years later are still sitting on a bookshelf somewhere



  • I remember watching a guy play an arcade game back in about 1990, I think it was spy hunter or something but the car could do a jump and side scrolled to the right. Not sure. Anyways, over the course of about 4 hours this guy plunked about $100 worth of quarters into the machine until he beat it.

    10-year-old me was, uh, impressed to say the least. I tried playing it but I only had two quarters and lasted less than 3 minutes.






  • Most people are content consumers, not creators. It looks like the exodus was largely that if users so…

    The problem is that quite a few content creators become entrenched using their platform and they don’t want to move on. Just look at all the journalists and human rights advocated still using Twitter. Now they’re being doxxed and their platform destroyed but they still won’t leave.