"Wab Kinew singing with battle nation Manito Ahbee powwow 2025"

#MB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4MIOlnxmo

Fun product spotted on Mercari Japan: PowerBook 500-series "tattoos”. They're stickers shaped to go on your PowerBook trackpad. This was a novelty since these were the first PowerBooks to sport trackpads rather than trackballs! (and the first laptops at all to have a trackpad where you'd expect it today)

The years on the calendar stickers clearly date this product…

#VintageApple #mb

Haha, oops! That 11 yen CRT at HARD OFF ended up coming home with me…

We got an iiyama MT-8617E, a 17" CRT with a Mitsubishi Diamondtron tube.

Looking around the back in addition to VGA D-Sub, we got BNC connectors revealing we have Sync-on-Green support.

Did a web search which turned up an original flyer and the specs page from the manual.

#RetroComputing #mb

The first visible effect of the Strait of Hormuz blockage in our little backwater of #japan - the first “crude oil conservation packaging” without colors has arrived, as the manufacturer is claiming a shortage of naphtha (the government disagrees and calls it a marketing ploy. tbh it’s probably both)

#mb

First project as a house-owner completed.

We had issues with the yard flooding and leaving big pools of water when there was a big rain.

Started by going to the hardware store, picked up a ton of concrete U-drains.

#mb

I am proud to present GlobalTalk Chat 1.2, taking it from a rushed #MARCHintosh hack-job to something I'd be proud to release as shareware 30 years ago!

The headline update is it now allows anyone to host their own room! And it works on any AppleTalk network, not just #GlobalTalk

Get it on BaroNet, or Macintosh Garden https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/globaltalk-chat

And for anyone who has been curious how it all works, documented source code is available! https://github.com/kalleboo/GlobalTalk-Chat

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

When we went camping the other week I found my Moondrop Chus among the camping gear, I thought I had lost them falling out of my backpack somewhere!

Took a walk this evening and was enjoying the sound, then after I got home my phone slipped out of my hand, ripping the earbuds out of my ears. They're still ringing painfully

This is why I've been using Bluetooth earbuds exclusively since… 2006 apparently?? (20 years ago wtf I'm old, and I was a BABY back then)

I'm just too clumsy for wires!
#mb

One of the two fanciest of all fancy sparrows* (white crowned) visiting my garden this spring, today. This particular gentleman was very cooperative in posing where I could focus on him.

*fancy as a term designates sparrows that do not reside in this region year-round. Rankings determined by length of residence in said garden. Terms and conditions may vary in your region. Residents of Quebec get a 👋.
#birds #birdphotography #mb