RadioShaq

Much appreciated, thank you

Amazing, if you don’t mind me asking, what is your set up? got a telescope from a dumpster (long story ) with a camera connector and about to get into it

Leonard Nimoy Demonstrates the Magnavision Videodisc Player (Full Laserdisc!) YouTube video by LaserdiscTurtle

Watch it all.

You will not be disappointed.

Yeah for his cringe segment in the twilight zone movie. So unsafe how he did it

Complete archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0 Complete archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0

Kind of! Via DOSBox-X emulator. Robert J. Sawyer (who still writes all his novels in it) released a full free archive with plug-and-play setup: sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

There’s also WordTsar (wordtsar.ca), a native open-source clone that runs on modern OSes without an emulator

Complete archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0 Complete archive of WordStar for DOS 7.0

Kind of! Via DOSBox-X emulator. Robert J. Sawyer (who still writes all his novels in it) released a full free archive with plug-and-play setup: sfwriter.com/ws7.htm

There’s also WordTsar (wordtsar.ca), a native open-source clone that runs on modern OSes without an emulator

How about the 1980s classic editor wordstar ? No ai there

I think the "luggable" arrangement is preferable to the "chunky laptop" configuration that was also popular at the time.

You can see that the screen size and keyboard size is very similar.

The luggable has the advantage of a freely positionable keyboard and slightly more expansion capability.

The first two Gabriel Knight articles were so good, very excited for this one

I had an email exchange with a guy yesterday who insisted I was making a mistake not outsourcing my writing to an LLM. He said, "It knows more than you do." He couldn't understand that this was impossible because the work of writing is figuring out what "I" think.

Lord British in a suit of armor, sitting in front of an Apple computer.

This is where I'm posting from.

I bought it on PC as well and immediately returned it and exchanged it for civilization 2 gold edition the next day . Amazing that Sam’s Club would let you do that , but I wasn’t about to see $50 anytime soon so I didn’t want to squander it

Rad Dudes, Rude ‘Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s | Games: Research and Practice The tale of the console wars of the 1990s, the stodgy, conservative, family-friendly Nintendo consoles waging an advertising war against the rebellious upstarts behind the Sega Genesis, has been told ...

And if you want to access our actual journal article, it's available in open access here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The Console Wars, As Told By '90s Nintendo And Sega Advertisements 'The way you come to understand [anything] inside and out is by seeing how it evolved over time'

My co-author Dr. Megan Condis and I gathered nearly 3,000 print ads from the console wars era to analyze whether the popular narrative that "Sega was for rad teens and Nintendo was for babies" actually holds up.

The results paint a slightly more nuanced picture.

Read about it on @aftermath.site!

Is pluggers well syndicated? It’s not in my local paper (I get my plugger fix from your blog )

Mike was one of the guys laying the framework for what good jokes would look like in a novel format with a strict character limit. 35 is so young. Rest easy good stranger

Novelty clocks and wrist watches including toy cars and a Miniature Voltron

Nostalgia Time
1985 Sears Wish Book

How to Create an At-Home Residency An interview with Kristen Arnett & Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Just gonna repost one more time and then let it glide off into the ether. An uplifting convo about creating your own residency at home, but underneath it is a conversation about figuring out what works for you and your writing and your living space. 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...

Love it (and love Jon Wurster’s flannel suit)

Recently picked up the book 1000 Words and loving it. Adding these dates to my calendar for sure

Lily King and Judy Blume in Conversation Simple advice from the best.

Wrote about seeing our queen Judy Blume and the great Lily King in conversation 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/lily-king-...

Doomed? Or about to hit a whole new level

David S Pumpkins: “Any Questions?” 64 ?

Cool demo teaching me something I didn’t know about python but I wonder what the use case for something like this is?

Kid-sized bags with printed characters and a Gremlins themed play tent

Sleeping Bags 1984 JCPenney

somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this

"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.

Don’t Mind Me I’m Just Chasing the Morning Light A fall pep talk.

little fall writing pep talk if you need one ❤️https://1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/dont-mind-me-im-just-chasing-the

Another casualty of the LLM revolution.

In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

A like and a repost to my throng of followers to anyone here in the replies who can explain the context of this