I loved 720. My dad was a manager for an arcade at the time, and I went in with him most Sunday mornings while he did the collection, helped out a bit and mostly played games.

Being a synth geek, I also appreciate that it had the Yamaha TM2151 “OPM” FM synthesis chip (as found in the DX-100 and DX-21), along with two…

And here I thought a “phone tree” was just an annoying menu system.

I went through a fountain pen phase. Then I had a boss who absently picked up one of my pens and started tapping on the desk with it... surprisingly it didn’t cause a leak. And then he absent-mindedly (or intentionally, hard to tell with him) brought it back to his own desk. Later on I sneaked in and retrieved it, and…

I went through a fountain pen phase. Then I had a boss who absently picked up one of my pens and started tapping on…

Some shaving foam works on the mirror, some doesn’t.

I have been using a little bit of shampoo for the purpose instead — it works well for the duration of that one shower, less well the next time, and not at all the time after that.

For glasses, there’s a paste called Cat Crap that works pretty well, but the best…

Counterpoint: I played it for less than half an hour before I got annoyed, uninstalled it and asked for a Steam refund.

During that time I lost in Slime Climb (in the first round) four or five times. If there was a single-player practice mode maybe I could have finally gotten past the one piece of it that kept…

If you’re just listening to music or an audiobook, or take a Zoom call or something, 40ms of latency isn’t going to even be noticeable.

If you’re trying to produce music, then you probably don’t want to go anywhere near Bluetooth... aside from latency it’s a lossy codec.

If you’re just listening to music or an audiobook, or take a Zoom call or something, 40ms of latency isn’t going to…

I hope you kept it and didn’t sell it on eBay or something...

Now I feel even worse for playing 10 shows and failing in the first round of 8 of them...

Honestly, this is where my mind went first:

This would be a great idea if e-ink TVs were a thing.

Or maybe if you’re running on 100% solar and you’re off the grid completely.

Because they’re white and rich.

Now that’s what I call music.

(What? I like creepy drone ambient stuff.)

It’s not that white people don’t care about their friends. It’s that they don’t think about racism.

All new users will be asked to create a PIN when they install signal for the first time, but you can also add/edit your PIN in Signal’s settings.

This is the first I’ve heard about GPM shutting down. They haven’t informed me yet...

I guess it’s good that I’ve mostly been switching over to Bandcamp and my own MP3 collection.  There’s still some stuff on GPM I will miss though.

I want this. I don’t need this, I have mechanical keyboards at home and work plus a wireless switchable keyboard that I use since I’ve got a Monome Teletype in my modular synth, and I don’t want to get into this hobby.  But yeah, I want this.

I like GW2 a lot more personally. With GW1 I felt like I was vaguely directing a squad to kill stuff for me, but GW2 (open world, anyway) feels like an RPG with a lot of stuff to do and a more natural feeling exploratory way of questing.

Donating half of it to charities which will help people who need it more than we do. I’m working from home and my spouse is getting paid her normal hourly rate to watch some training videos.

Slapping the other half into savings and mostly avoiding frivolous expenses until there are some local businesses open again to…

Donating half of it to charities which will help people who need it more than we do. I’m working from home and my…

My favorite:

If he picks Warren, I might actually have to respect him. Just a little bit.