lroop @lroop@retro.social
Collector/restorer of retro computers and game consoles, admirer of mid-century architecture and industrial design.
Joined May 2018
Correction: I have been informed that this is in fact a 24MB drive despite being in a box labeled 12MB. The 12 meg version was the same size, just with one platter instead of two.
So some people are passing because they're vegetarian, a few are mad, thinking it's an attempt to insult them by feeding them cheap pies made of bear. Finally I lose my patience and start telling - "It's pear pie, not bear pie. You know, pears, the fruit? Who would bake bears into a pie anyhow?"
People getting food are asking what kind of pie it is, but because I'm wearing a mask they keep thinking I'm saying "bear" instead of pear.
Last night I had this funny dream involving pear pies. I dreamed that I had been asked to bake and serve apple pies at a meal service for homeless and low income people, but for some reason they couldn't get apples and instead got a bunch of pears. So, I bake the pies using the pears and serve them.
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this morning I am training a neural network to reproduce a light field
it looks very strange when asked to render outside the training viewpoint
Now if only I could teach her to swap cables instead of just playing with them.
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Ever wonder why people watch a "ball drop" at Times Square for New Year's Eve?
This tradition comes from the "time ball," which observatories and other institutions would drop at a specified time so that ships and people watching could set their marine chronometers and clocks.
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Getting ready to stream demos for Demosplash 2020. We're streaming live right now at http://www.demosplash.org/ thanks to our friends at SceneSat, check it out!
It's cats and vintage hardware time again. Here's Callie wanting attention while sitting on top of an Apple IIe.
This machine hasn't been booted since 2014, a bad mouse blew the PS/2 port fuse and it sat in my repair pile, got moved to the new house, and finally got a new fuse tonight.
There's tedious, and then there's cleaning every single potentiometer on a mixing console...
Collector/restorer of retro computers and game consoles, admirer of mid-century architecture and industrial design.
Joined May 2018
