Mark
@cdi.bsky.social
A hands-on visionary who respects the sea
Shooting this must’ve been a pain: all those unsync’d CRTs would have shown up with rolling black bars in the film camera without specialized hardware. Maybe the PAL format helped here? Film is 1/24fps, which is almost a clean multiple of PAL’s 1/50fps. Were European arcade cabinets PAL or NTSC?
In 1998, the (bad) Italian movie Cucciolo somehow managed to do something important: they shot quite a long sequence in the now-defunct SegaWorld London, located inside the London Trocadero. The park opened in 1996 and closed in 1999.
Here is the entire sequence.
Here is the entire sequence.
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Shooting this must’ve been a pain: all those unsync’d CRTs would have shown up with rolling black bars in the film camera without specialized hardware. Maybe the PAL format helped here? Film is 1/24fps, which is almost a clean multiple of PAL’s 1/50fps. Were European arcade cabinets PAL or NTSC?
Apple IIGS boot screens rule
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Apple IIGS boot screens rule
The Retrotink 4K can handle the Apple IIGS’s funky 15kHz RGB sync signal when it’s piped through BMoW’s Mac Sync-inator to get all the signals on the right pins.
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 AM
The Retrotink 4K can handle the Apple IIGS’s funky 15kHz RGB sync signal when it’s piped through BMoW’s Mac Sync-inator to get all the signals on the right pins.
Werewolf lookin ass moon in the backyard this morning
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Werewolf lookin ass moon in the backyard this morning
Got jury duty today. The view of Hood from the 17th floor of the courthouse is nuts, at least.
December 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Got jury duty today. The view of Hood from the 17th floor of the courthouse is nuts, at least.
Found the PAX 2007 DVDs at the thrift store today. This was the year the Mega64 guys drew a really mean picture of my friend @lazerketten.bsky.social. Here's her and I (in the hat holding the SLR camera) almost 20 years ago, getting made fun of at the giant nerd convention, memorialized on DVD.
December 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Found the PAX 2007 DVDs at the thrift store today. This was the year the Mega64 guys drew a really mean picture of my friend @lazerketten.bsky.social. Here's her and I (in the hat holding the SLR camera) almost 20 years ago, getting made fun of at the giant nerd convention, memorialized on DVD.
Explain Steven Seagal then
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Explain Steven Seagal then
Read one the funniest things @1900hotdog.bsky.social published this year, for free: Dogfight Wild Tournament part 1 and 2.
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Punching Day: Dogfight Wild Tournament 🌭 - 1-900-HOTDOG
Cursed artifacts from the wrong dimension every weekday.
1900hotdog.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Read one the funniest things @1900hotdog.bsky.social published this year, for free: Dogfight Wild Tournament part 1 and 2.
1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc...
1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc...
1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc...
1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc...
Has anybody seen our cat Meatloaf? Where’d that guy go?
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Has anybody seen our cat Meatloaf? Where’d that guy go?
The Vinegar Syndrome motherlode has arrived.
December 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Vinegar Syndrome motherlode has arrived.
Been trying to rip CAV laserdiscs that encode “picture stop” frames to automatically pause the disc (to display a menu or still images or whatever). It’s annoying because some of the weirder discs I’d like to preserve pause a lot, which makes them awkward to record straight through.
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Been trying to rip CAV laserdiscs that encode “picture stop” frames to automatically pause the disc (to display a menu or still images or whatever). It’s annoying because some of the weirder discs I’d like to preserve pause a lot, which makes them awkward to record straight through.
My newest @archive.org upload: the first of about 20 LDs of early 90s supermarket in-store promotional material. It's mostly slow panning hero shots of paper towels and deli meats. I love it? There's only one disc ripped right now but I'll add to the collection over time. archive.org/details/in-s...
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My newest @archive.org upload: the first of about 20 LDs of early 90s supermarket in-store promotional material. It's mostly slow panning hero shots of paper towels and deli meats. I love it? There's only one disc ripped right now but I'll add to the collection over time. archive.org/details/in-s...
There are only two films I respect: the movie Rad, about a 80s hometown BMX hero, and the movie Thrashin’, about an 80s hometown skateboarding hero.
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
There are only two films I respect: the movie Rad, about a 80s hometown BMX hero, and the movie Thrashin’, about an 80s hometown skateboarding hero.
Today's IA upload is the laserdisc version of Muscle Motion! Let this bevy of hunks floor hump you into total physical fitness with a series of exercises that, frankly, won't do much of anything. I think you're just supposed to masturbate to this. archive.org/details/musc...
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today's IA upload is the laserdisc version of Muscle Motion! Let this bevy of hunks floor hump you into total physical fitness with a series of exercises that, frankly, won't do much of anything. I think you're just supposed to masturbate to this. archive.org/details/musc...
Remembered a funny story about driving to the Oregon coast from Portland with my friend Diana back in 2007, maybe? One way to get to the coast from Portland is to take the 26 west, which gets really windy and hilly once you get past Hillsboro.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remembered a funny story about driving to the Oregon coast from Portland with my friend Diana back in 2007, maybe? One way to get to the coast from Portland is to take the 26 west, which gets really windy and hilly once you get past Hillsboro.
Something to think about the next time you’re buying toilet paper and bananas
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Something to think about the next time you’re buying toilet paper and bananas
Seems like this Apple IIGS I got was actually used at Apple. Also has definitely been dropped at least once.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Seems like this Apple IIGS I got was actually used at Apple. Also has definitely been dropped at least once.
My wife @ladykaka.bsky.social and I, from the instrument.com 20th anniversary party
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My wife @ladykaka.bsky.social and I, from the instrument.com 20th anniversary party
Another VHS upload to the archive: The World of Jump Roping, brought to you by the beefiest man to ever twirl a rope, Mark "Roth" Rothstein. Nobody has ever loved anything as much as Roth loves jump roping. archive.org/details/worl...
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Another VHS upload to the archive: The World of Jump Roping, brought to you by the beefiest man to ever twirl a rope, Mark "Roth" Rothstein. Nobody has ever loved anything as much as Roth loves jump roping. archive.org/details/worl...
The only other thing I'll say about our current technological state of affairs is that we already invented the perfect catch-all solution to everything 40 years ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The only other thing I'll say about our current technological state of affairs is that we already invented the perfect catch-all solution to everything 40 years ago
Respectfully disagree. I think it makes people under-think what they’re doing, and have attended several incident reviews at work lately where the underlying cause was accepting LLM suggestions. You can show me all the toy software you want but so far this stuff is still a hinderance at scale.
He’s right! You don’t have to use it—but it’s going to sweep through codeworld like a purifying fire. You may not care! But it’s not like when it draws you a bad picture of a large-breasted elf. It’s more like it shreds the foundation of what makes tech “valuable.”
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Respectfully disagree. I think it makes people under-think what they’re doing, and have attended several incident reviews at work lately where the underlying cause was accepting LLM suggestions. You can show me all the toy software you want but so far this stuff is still a hinderance at scale.
Today's archive upload jumps the queue by singular request: Exposing the Satanic Web. Brought to you by Dave Roever, the phosphorus grenade that hit Dave in the face back in Vietnam, and the satanic panic of the late 80s. archive.org/details/expo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today's archive upload jumps the queue by singular request: Exposing the Satanic Web. Brought to you by Dave Roever, the phosphorus grenade that hit Dave in the face back in Vietnam, and the satanic panic of the late 80s. archive.org/details/expo...
The thing about preordering Analogue gear is that when it finally shows up, it feels like a gift from the person you were several years ago.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The thing about preordering Analogue gear is that when it finally shows up, it feels like a gift from the person you were several years ago.
The answer is always and unequivocally: yes, absolutely
Every time I leave the house for anything but work, I ask Mark @cdi.bsky.social if he’s embarrassed of me because I dress like a tween boy
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The answer is always and unequivocally: yes, absolutely