NanoRaptor

NanoRaptor, 21 days ago to random

What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

A small manufacturing defect destroys your computer's main storage, and it's nonrecoverable. All data lost.

Do you have backups so that you can restore what you cannot do without, and quickly? Have you checked those backups are happening? do you have multiple backups? have you checked they're restorable?

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

You get to make one change to any single genus of animal that’s immediately applied to all of its members worldwide.

What do you change for maximum chaos?

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

They just don't put thought into design like they used to.

The longer you look, the calmer you feel.

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

Same picture. Same bullshit.

A report card from year 10. It reads in part: English, Grade A, Dana is a very able and talented student who does not always give of her best. This failure to invest much energy in her English prevents her from achieving her full potential although this is not the say that this work is of an inferior standard. Also, Mathematics (Advanced), Grade A, Dana is a keen student but her work lacks discipline. She has a lot of ability but this needs further development.

NanoRaptor, 19 days ago to random

Most people on earth can’t remember anything before 1997.

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

This is what they took from us.

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

As I just posted elsewhere online:

“Oh my fucking god is this how thinking should work?!? What the hell. What the fuck. You all didn’t have this all the time did you? And not tell me?”

First adhd medication dose. This is really, really clear.

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random

PowerBook 540c.

If I had to name a Best Mac Of All Time, this would be it most days.

NanoRaptor, 7 months ago to random

The iPod was released closer to the 1970s than to today.

NanoRaptor, 2 months ago to random

Apple IIe limitless future poster, with a lovely cleaned up scan based on an archive.org brochure.

Original brochure at https://archive.org/details/AppleIieBrochureA2f2201/page/n3/mode/2up

NanoRaptor, 30 days ago to random

20,000 followers! I would like to thank everyone for helping make this dream come true, I've wanted 20,000 followers on mastodon since I was six years old.

You're all gems.

NanoRaptor, 5 months ago to random

PC Cases that lack 3.5" drive bays may have been an inconvenience, but no longer.

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

The one true USB3 connector.

NanoRaptor, 7 months ago to random

The First IBM PC, the 5150, was released closer to the start of World War II than to today.

NanoRaptor, 7 months ago to random

Apple //c with UV Retina display.

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

For the first time in a long while I've wished I had a blog I could dump a whole heap of thoughts on the Georgie Purcell/Nine News/Adobe/Guardian photoshopping business. It's at the intersection of some of my biggest interests and strongest skills.

I've been having very PEOPLE ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET emotions this last day and a half and ... haha yeah as if a blog would fix me here.

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

The RGB triplets in classic colour PowerBooks of the 90s were very tiny Apple logos.

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

This is as far as computing should have ever been allowed to get.

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random

You travel a thousand years into the future to find people there know of you by name, you are a legend known by almost all.

What would be the basis for your fame?

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random

What’s that one anachronism you always pick up in movies and tv? Susan Kare’s Chicago font in 1940s small town America? A canon 5D dslr winding on film in Skyline? VT100s in a monsterverse scene in 1974?

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random

Honestly that’s a pretty tidy crosscut, little bun.

A closeup of the phone cable that until 15 minutes ago carried my vdsl internet. It is sliced fairly neatly in a diagonal cut by the teeth of a small demon in the form of a rabbit named vanillabean who lives with me.

NanoRaptor, 1 month ago to random

ADHD medication experience Day 4. This morning's dose taken a little late for mundane reasons. While waiting for it to kick in, did a few tasks and found it difficult going. Continued those after brain switched on, and found though I was in a fine working state, I couldn't retrieve memories I should have had from this morning. Fleeting ones after dose were still immediately findable though.

NanoRaptor, 4 months ago to random

I am so sorry.

NanoRaptor, 3 months ago to random