FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

what is happening ??

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I haven't watched the Tour de France in probably 15 years

Cyclist and bikes come straight from SPACE now !

@mayintoronto This guy got around 700 people to come out and watch him fold a fitted sheet.

"Comedian Dan Boerman arrived in Wellington jetlagged and delirious, but he had a plan. On Monday afternoon, in front of a raucous crowd on Cuba Street, he would perform his ability to fold a fitted sheet to all."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture/wellington-you-re-so-weird-huge-crowd-gathers-to-watch-a-man-fold-a-fitted-sheet

someone said there are no CGA nerds, there are only CGA sickos.

I take offense to that, I can be both

I love the ceramic disc insulators on the power lines along the river (and elsewhere) here, ringed and so vivid against the summer sky.

Should it ever be needed, I think I've found the perfect name for a legendary sword.

I just realized it's weird that most people seem to think that zero-gravity "Vomit Comet" flights achieve free fall by diving straight down, instead of following a parabolic arc up and over like they really do. Because that's actually a thing commonly done in everyday life, when stealing a bite of something drippy from a plate across the table. You do a little bouncing motion, and then move it up and over in an arc to your own plate, trying to keep everything in freefall so the drips follow the fork and don't fall on the table on the way. It's the exact same maneuver!

Everybody made fun of the toolbars-on-toolbars design of Microsoft Word 6 or whatever but at least those icons utilized color and made some sort of attempt to express what their purpose was

I fuckin hate whatever school of UI design this is. It's all over Adwaita apps also and by itself it makes me groan when I learn an app has switched to Adwaita

As I get older, two things happen

1. My eyesight gets worse

2. Visual information is being progressively removed from user interfaces to a greater and greater degree, such that I need better eyesight to use the same apps to the same level of capability

Also, apps now frequently auto-update and move things around, just in case I wanted to learn to use the app by simply memorizing the positions of icons

Oh no 😭

instead of "AI veganism" say "AI picket line" imo

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing