Just some geek dad living on Dena'ina land with too many film cameras and not enough time. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

Best Before: Sep 1, 2046
Avatar: The Frog by Matsumoto Hoji, 1814

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I've seen one like that before but they're all laughing.

2026-04-11 16:06:02 UTC

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But also: Dawn of Midi?

2026-04-11 15:47:35 UTC

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Saturday morning, Pacific Northwest, on the water, that's Cat Stevens and coffee time. Maybe an everything bagel.

2026-04-11 15:44:54 UTC

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Right? Who would listen to techno on a Saturday morning.

2026-03-23 00:44:38 UTC

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It is! Yep, tried yufo as well, same thing, but the flower in Sunflower BASIC renders just fine. 😁

2026-03-22 21:21:24 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 Got distracted by Porporo.
https://snac.gruntle.cc/social/knapjack/s/post-efca27698e92ce67e7c2c00b763906d1.png

2026-03-22 00:20:11 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 So funny/weird. I was talking about Software Tools just this morning in nanochat, and now sifting through your December Adventure and hit your *19 Reading Plauger's Software Tools* entry.
https://snac.gruntle.cc/social/knapjack/s/post-ddc31ddfc7ec516802359877711d0e57.png

2026-03-18 03:25:13 UTC

@npub1z2c…laft @npub1z8r…mrq6 Working my way through Oquonie. Hard to believe so much game fits in so few kb.

2026-03-12 19:33:55 UTC

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Will there also be a random damsel with a random distress? 😉
Also, Random Damsel is my '80s cover band.

2026-03-07 19:05:04 UTC

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I was an Oberon fan/user back in the v2 and v4 days. I remember reading some code from the University of Linz that was in German and it was the first time I realized that programming didn't need to be in English, that there was really no reason it couldn't be in someone's native language as long as there was a character set for it. I think Oberon had always been at least Latin-1, and at the time I heard through the grapevine that there were Russian variants, probably lost to time now.
Then, stubbing my toe on Plan 9 and Unicode.
And now, I have to admit, wondering what tal would look like mapped to Maya script. 😂 But the Toki Pona rabbit hole will do for now.

2026-03-07 17:03:54 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 The deeper I go the more it feels like a fever dream: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_localization.html
I think my Toki Pona book is on the same shelf as my Oberon book.

2026-03-01 15:59:55 UTC

@npub1z8r…mrq6 I love crawling through your website. Just stumbled across this:
> Countries like New Zealand and Australia demand that your vessel's bottom be clean (they will require proof), to avoid introducing invasive species into its home waters.
How does that work in practice? Does someone swim down and snap pics? Do you have to haul out for inspection?

2026-03-01 03:04:29 UTC

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What are you using to read that doc? 🧐