Tinkerer and accidental #IT professional with a degree in ancient #history. #Collector of #art, physical media, and ephemera. Almost constantly listening to #music. Owner of #cats. #Learning something new, and trying to be a tiny bit better, every day.
Profile picture: A brain (as if viewed from the top) made to look like a face, wearing glasses, with the hint of a nose and a mouth but no eyes.
Header picture: An abstract, geometric, grayscale cityscape.
I've been collecting postcards over the last year or so and wanted a dedicated space to share that interest... so, I created a second, topic-focused account here: @postedcards. Feel free to follow if you feel so inclined.
There is more depth to postcards than I ever expected. The stories they tell, the artwork, the history, the music (see the image below), etc. Plus they're (often) inexpensive and easy to store.
The first digital image from space was a color-by-number... with some assembly required.
"A real-time data translator machine converted Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. The team colored in the strips by hand with pastels, making this both a work of art and the first digital image from space." - NASA/JPL-Caltech (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mariner-4/)
What was Mariner 4? The Mariner 4 mission, the second of two Mars flyby attempts launched in 1964 by NASA, was one of the great early successes of the agency, and indeed the Space Age, returning the very first photos of another planet from deep space. Nation United States of America Objective Mars Flyby Spacecraft […]
Just a reminder for anyone who doesn't want to be bombarded with depressing/distressing political (or other) discussion... Mastodon has filters.
A top result in Google when searching for information on irrigation well drilling methods used in the 19th century. Google search results have been heading down the drain for years... but, with the speed AI-generated garbage sites like this can be spit out, I don't know how "useful" search is going to survive.