| Current Game | https://steamcommunity.com/id/crustyB |
| Still on Earth | Yep |
| GitHub | https://github.com/CrustyBarnacle |
| Listening TO: | https://somafm.com/defcon/ |
š blog! āAngels and Daemonsā
A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing [ā¦]
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#NaNoWriMo #RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms #WritingMonth
A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing a rusty looking fluid. The writing on the label looked like my handwriting, but was illegible. Iā¦
Unreasonably fond of the realization that the āMediterranean dietā fad is a random second- or third-order byproduct of pension fraud.
I feel like thereās some sort of higher-level behavioural insight here, about how quickly people will latch on to things that give them any sense of agency over themselves, whatever the basis.
Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.
As far as Iām aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.
Image: Computer History Museum
š blog! āA Quick Guide to Filters on Mastodonā
I do not care for the game of Rugby. After many wet and cold days on the school sports field, I had any latent enthusiasm for it beaten out of me. There is nothing you or anyone else can say which will convince me to take an interest in it. You may feel the same [ā¦]
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#HowTo #mastodon #SocialMedia
I do not care for the game of Rugby. After many wet and cold days on the school sports field, I had any latent enthusiasm for it beaten out of me. There is nothing you or anyone else can say which will convince me to take an interest in it. You may feel the same way about a specific sport, or the Great British Bake Off, or Linux. That's fine. We're all different. This can be a problem onā¦
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