Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

the tasks that matter:
- unloading dishwasher? ❎
- rolling trash bins back to the house? ❎
- digging out all of my music CDs and compiling an action playlist for my OG Xbox, track by track? ✅

bonus points if you know exactly which songs some of these are since i labeled them very lazily (lack of USB keyboard port really hurts here)

Winning a hand of "Fortune's Foundation" in the Zachtronics Solitaire Collection will give you a fortune based on the last Major Arcana card that got sent to the piles.

This particular one comes at a time when I've been seriously thinking about taking a long vacation to Do Nothing. Y'know... it has a point.

this building is a borderline cognitohazard

imma tell somebody's kids that this was ChatGPT

buying a large enough memory card to carry around my entire music library was a great decision because i can totally just upload random crap from anywhere i want

This is the Technōs Building, in Beaverton, Oregon. In the 90s it was the headquarters of American Technos, the US branch of the Japanese publisher known for Double Dragon and River City Ransom. They closed in the late 90s, and their building is now a disability care office - but their logo remains, to this day.

here's the real sign of the times: dollar tree ain't cost a dollar anymore

the mood this morning: this photograph is ten years old, but it'll never not strike me how moody a place can be when it's fogged in and devoid of people

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in retrospect we really should have seen scott adams' shittiness years ago, considering that, in 1996, this was how he responded to criticisms about his comic's sexist and stereotypical portrayal of women

incidentally, said iMac was named Aegir independently of a certain Ferdinand von Aegir, but when I noticed I hadn't changed its hard disk icon yet, I finally buckled.

Finally received the keyboard and mouse that originally went to my used 2009 iMac. And decided to rename them. As ya do.

anyway, HOYLE~

Hello. I'm the ketchup. Did you know that there's more sugar in me than in ice cream? It's a fact!

Timely reminder that Windows still lets you rename the Recycle Bin to whatever you want.

current mood

I had always wondered if this image, of the space man sitting at a drafting table, was based on any existing paintings or drawings, perhaps from a cover of a science fiction novel, so I happened to look in the rather exhaustively detailed, 25+ page manual that comes with it. It did not answer that question, but it does answer what the deal is with that caption - complete with biblical citations.

This goes on for about 5 pages in itself.

One of the most fascinating rabbit holes I've ever witnessed in PC Shareware: for several versions (until 5.x), the MS-DOS screensaver program, DAZZLE, would display this image - and its somewhat cryptic caption - upon exiting the program. Where'd it come from? What does it mean?

suck it, Apple, I can make my modern Mac run 16- and 32-bit apps and you can't stop me

(because I'm running Windows on it instead)

Possibly the only 3DO game that is SO compulsorily multiplayer that it includes a free (awful) controller. Also, one of the biggest boxes I've got, excepting some of the PC stuff. Look how it's dwarfing the Solitaires Journey next to it.