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I code because I must. I read to live. I eat to enjoy. Friends add spice. (they/them)
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OMGoddess! The entire book "Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Design" by Gordon Bell from 1978 scanned:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/CGB%20Files/Computer%20Engineering%207809%20c.pdf

“People here will think it’s fine if you’re good but embarrassing if you’re awful at it,” Tohru says about dancing in public. “That’s naturally the way Japanese people think. I don’t. What’s important is that I’m enjoying myself.”

https://unseen-japan.com/uncle-tohru-dancer-instagram/

#japan #unseenjapan #ujwebsite #socialmedia

How a 58-Year-Old Japanese Salaryman Danced His Way Into The World's Heart - Unseen Japan

By day, he's a management consultant. The world knows him better as "Uncle Tohru" - and they've made him an online dance star.

Unseen Japan

people of the fediverse! i am currently looking for a new job and/or freelance gigs. i'm currently living in new haven, CT, but i'm also in NYC often.

things i do:
- build websites and web apps
- make videos and graphics
- IT/computermancy
- teaching

feel free to get in touch here or email me at paloma@palomakop.tv

my website is https://palomakop.tv

please boost 🔁✨

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Paloma Kop

Paloma Kop - experimental multimedia artist

@foone
Not trivial with the error correction and redundency in QR codes. This is a working QR code after all.
the sad truth
Rare photo of a mother wrench feeding her young.
Absolutely breathtaking! ❤️❤️
Is there an international standard (or standards) analogous to ISO 8601 for formatting dates in non-Gregorian calendars and for distinguishing those dates from Gregorian dates?
#xkcd No. 3084
Date: 2025-5-2
Title: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
Alt text: Unstoppable force-carrying particles can't interact with immovable matter by definition.
https://xkcd.com/3084/
Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object

xkcd
This is bonkers: a 108-gigapixel scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Each pixel is 1.3 microns in size (1000 microns = 1mm). At full zoom, the tiny cracks in the paint look like canyons. https://kottke.org/25/05/what-108-gigapixel-scan-of-vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring
What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Several years ago, digital microscope technology company Hirox collaborated with The Mauritshuis museum to create a 10-gigap

kottke.org