Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfswings.html - Going live with a slightly more analytical article for Golfshrine, as I think about how being good at a golf video game is nowhere near the same thing as being good at actual golf.

thank you Matt Grey for this wonderful new image that I will save for when it is most needed

"Maybe I _have_ hit bottom, and maybe I _do_ look like hell. Lord knows the only exercise I've had lately is tipping the bottle and flipping cards into my hat. ...I'm going to scare up a job today if it means finding somebody's lost puppy."

Tex Murphy, one of my favorite video game characters of all time. Private eye, hardboiled where it counts, total doofus at almost all other times.

I added a Links section to Golfshrine. ...I'm not sure that it's quite what the audience expects to find in a Links section. 😅​

browser, fuck off and let me look at my bookmarks toolbar, i do not want numbers, i want results

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-10-10.html The much-delayed PRGE 2024 edition of the Golfshrine Acquisitions Update! Got a couple of especially interesting and long-needed additions to the Shrine this time around, so check it out - do it for Schmoe. Don't make Schmoe sad. 😦

If you'd like these wallpapers for your own similar setup, here are the files, for 1080x1920 and 1920x1200 respectively.

Even if it's always going to be covered by application windows, it's always nice to put my own photographs on my desktop wallpaper. These came out really nice. At least I'll always glimpse them when I'm logging in to the machine in the morning.

I'd like to think that UFO 50's "LX" computer exists in the same parallel reality as Last Call BBS's "Powerlance." Both of them appear to have taken design cues after Sony's HIT-BIT line of MSX computers.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-09-23.html - on top of some readability changes (that you might have to clear your cache for... 🤔 ), today's Golfshrine update contains 3 acquisitions, one duplicate, several new friends, and one capybara.

funny how life runs in themes sometimes. family acquaintances from church are getting rid of clothes that are too big for them, so now I own a polo shirt from the Torrey Pines golf course.

i learned this the same day i was goofing around in a golf sim in which Torrey Pines is an included course.

life, man. 🤷‍♂️

A lot of years ago, I took on an art study project where I traced over low-resolution screenshots of old games to see if I could "find" the detail in them. I never quite finished this one but I wanted to fill the bookshelf with as many silly things as possible. Some of it I slightly regret putting in there.

I installed Emudeck today. For completely normal reasons.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-26.html - This time on Golfshrine: donations, hauntings, and assorted other things.

Good: Links LS runs on my Toshiba Libretto!
Bad: Links LS requires a screen res of 800x600, and the Libretto only does 640x480. So all the UI (swing meter and all) is pushed off screen where I can't see to click on it.

Got this neat guy for 5 USD at a Goodwill - they'd put it out in the Toys section. It's a Phillips Nino 500, running Windows CE 2.11, from 1999. Amazingly it still boots as soon as I've got batteries in it, and even communicates with my other WinCE device, but its lack of Windows Explorer makes installing software very difficult, as it can't show me the contents of internal storage or of the inserted CF card. I need to figure out how to Active Sync it - which means finding a cable that works. 😞

Today's Golfshrine update includes multiple games that borrow the names of other games in Golfshrine, one frustrated rant about the software marketing practices of yesteryear, and the fascinating GameTrak!

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-10.html

i installed The Sims on my netbook today. ...do not let me write bios for your sims. =P

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/updates/2024-08-04.html - A bit light of an acquisitions update this time around, but I did also create a new Golfer for the Golfer's Gallery (linked within).