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John Morris
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lapsed electrical engineer; still not enough paid music gigs to quit the day job; builder of rule engines and tools to help people get jobs. he/him
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My poster stayed in the magazine, so it’s creased. I thought that I had the soundtrack on vinyl, but didn’t find it. I did find the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange, though.
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.” The full color poster inside, but opened up
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Oops. I went to listen and discovered I don’t have that after all. The funny collectors promo magazine is all I’ve got. There’s vinyl of A Clockwork Orange, though, so that’ll get played instead.
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.”
October 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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I found this while clearing out some old stuff a few weeks ago, so I’m likely to see it regardless what the reviews say.
front cover of an “official giant collectors’ edition” of a TRON promo magazine from 1982. There’s a dramatic futuristic picture from the movie on most of the cover, and a footnote promising a “full color poster inside.”
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Maybe I misremembered. This Hitachi isn’t European, and doesn’t look as sleek as I thought. Very clever, though.
A Hitachi 1” helical scan videotape recorder from the late 1970s. It’s a compact portable device with the two tape reels stacked one above the other, with the same spindle axis, to save space.
October 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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What’s the modern inclusive term for a dead man switch/pedal/cutoff? I remembered this doesn’t have one as I leaned way over in the seat to duck under low branches. I can’t easily add one, either, since it’s diesel.
A little old Ford diesel tractor with an also little box shredder is parked in some freshly mown grass. There’s a wire fence behind it. You can’t tell from the picture, but one of the lift arms has sheared off at a ball joint, so there’ll be no more mowing for a while.
August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Farewell to IsaBeauty, the only animal who ever liked my tuba playing.
A guy is standing in the shadow next to a tree, playing a tuba. A little white horse is raptly listing from a dozen feet away. She had come over from another part of the pasture when he started playing, as she usually did when there was tuba playing. There are a couple of big red plastic bells attached to the gate she’s standing next to, so she looks extra festive, and it must have been Christmas time, even though the live oaks have their leaves and the grass is green. She was a sweet horse, and we’ll miss her.
August 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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this pic is only because the one above is transparent, so you can't read the pin names.

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diagram of the 16 pins and their signal names on an Intel 4004 microprocessor. Pins 1-4 are data bus, 16-13 and 11 are memory address and control, two phase clock is on 6 and 7, 8 is sync output, 9 and 10 are reset and test inputs, and power is 15V across pins 5 and 12.
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Someone could, though it would be really hard to coax 500W across the one square cm of metal lid. Typical draw of a real one was half a watt.

I was wrong about both power (only 2 pins, with 15V across them) and that data and address were multiplexed. Oh well.

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diagram of the 16 pins and their signal names on an Intel 4004 microprocessor. Pins 1-4 are data bus, 16-13 and 11 are memory address and control, two phase clock is on 6 and 7, 8 is sync output, 9 and 10 are reset and test inputs, and power is 15V across pins 5 and 12.
June 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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My kids named some cats from that movie, but that problem has faded on its own. The two LOTR cats lasted a little longer, but now we have no more cats from literature.
A black and white tuxedo cat named Potter sits up straight on a desk, tightly between a beige keyboard and a bright ladybug mouse. Orange and white cat named Weasley pokes his head sideways out the end of a carpeted cat tree barrel. He has intense orange eyes.
May 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I had a sweet but simple kitten (Weasley) who ate the strip of plastic that you tear off the top of a pack of baby wipes. Or we thought he did, anyway. So he got surgery to check. He lasted many years after that and didn’t eat any more trash.
Weasley, an orange and white cat, is asleep in a people bed. His head Is on the pillow, covers are pulled over most of the rest of him, with one front leg draped over the edge of the comforter. He’s posed like the kitten on the Chessie System emblem.
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Beautiful majestic cat!
And is that gear considered classic, now?

Here’s Ginny, helping. D700, Zeiss 35mm f/2
Black and white picture of a young woman with her head fallen down on a tabletop with some poster project in progress. She stopped working because a small orange cat is on the table, too, helping too much.
February 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Thanks for the tip to fetch all the data.
I got the screenshot for fun, but it doesn't have all the loan details, so the file is nice.
a student loan summary card that shows a green check mark over the words, "Your loan balance is $0"
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Where’s the right place to give away an early 80’s Millennium Falcon plastic model? Good Will? It’s complete, slightly started, and not likely to be finished by me.
Top cover of a Millennium Falcon plastic model box, showing a picture of a completed and carefully painted model it also says the model is over 18 inches long. One side panel of the middle box, showing some close ups of parts of the model. Another box side panel, with pictures of other models once available in the same series, like an X-wing fighter and Dart Vader bust. A look inside the box, showing lots of plastic parts, assembly instructions, and some tiny bottles of paint from decades past.
December 30, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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The weather stayed dry and I got off work early enough to pulverize leaves with the mower before sunset, but now my neighbor is inspired to more in the dark.
Picture of a front yard with yellow leaves covering the yard, driveway, and sidewalk leading to the front door.
December 20, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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This one had enough persistent inflammation in the better eye, after the clearly bad eye was being treated for glaucoma, that he was tested for systemic stuff twice. First round found toxoplasma; second was bartonella. The bad eye has been removed, but the good one seems fine now. Whew!
Henry the one eyed tuxedo cat beats up a leather belt that has been menacing him on the bed
September 5, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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After the great Mohs surgery and before the repair. The whole team—dermatologist, Mohs surgeon, reconstruction surgeon, anesthesiologist, and all the nurses—were women who respect each others’ work, which was reassuring.
A white guy with glasses and a big white bandage on the left side of his nose is in a hospital gown and hospital bed withs couple tubes going down the collar of the gown. He’s grinning lightly at the camera, a mix of tired, worried, and pleased that it could have been worse.
August 21, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh…
A silhouette of a cat gently knocking a GOP elephant symbol off the edge of a table, captioned with “November 5, 2024; the revenge of the cat ladies’ cats”.
August 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Why is this even still here?
A 5.25” floppy diskette on a wood desk with a label that says “10-19-85 APPLEWORKS PROGRAM DISK”, and also “BAD” in a different color ink
August 11, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Just now?
Henry the black and white cat took over my work from home desk chair. Here, he’s curled up in the chair next to a desk. Eventually I let him keep it and got another for me. Now Henry is usually in his chair next to me for about half the work day.
July 19, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Henry is recovering well after having an eye removed two days ago. I’m relieved, since he was sneezing blood on Saturday.

I’m fortunate the cost was not an obstacle, but I’m sad about people who have to say, “I can’t; he’s 12; let’s say goodbye and put him down instead.”
Henry the black and white cat sits up on a bed feeling tricked by whoever put the plastic cone around his head. He gazes accusingly with his remaining eye and shows off his shaved wrist.
April 18, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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Ginny wanted all the lights, MIT just some incidental ones
Ginny the self satisfied orange tabby cat looks straight at the camera as she sits on a nest of warm bright Christmas lights
November 27, 2023 at 12:16 AM
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Reskeet with a very polite pet
Flash, and orange and white tabby with a plaid bow tie sits like a polite loaf peeking out from under a Victrola cabinet. He might be waiting for a storm to pass, but he’s usually politely under a bed when there’s a storm. Henry, a black and white tuxedo cat, and Flash, an orange and white kitty, sit side by side, alert and polite, at a glass storm door, waiting for Lexi the dog to get back from her walk. You can see Lexi reflected in the door, but she’s not especially polite. Flash and Henry sit together on the wide edge of a bathtub, politely waiting for a shower to start. Henry likes to drink shower water during the shower, and Flash likes some afterward.
October 29, 2023 at 1:27 AM
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I’d try, but I only have three cats, and they’re enough past kitten adventurousness that they avoid the tubas. Maybe if I put a basket in the bell, so it’s not so threatening.

Once they’re this big, only a couple fit inside, so kittens would be more fun.
Ginny the pale orange kitty liked to help with practice, so she’s perched on a sofa arm looking at the camera waiting for someone to pick up the tuba standing on the floor behind her. Henry, a black and white cat with a red bow tie, saunters past a tuba that’s propped up against a tall wooden cabinet. He’d like for it to not notice him, but it seems pretty harmless as long as nobody is making noise with it. He would fit in the bell, but it would freak him out because there would be nothing to grip with his back paws, to keep him from being drawn down into the bottomless conical tube.
October 24, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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It sounds nice, too. I’m about to sell it, since I haven’t used it besides practice, and I don’t have space to collect baritones and tubas. My plain little Yamaha euphonium is less precious and good enough for the way I play.
A picture of engraving on the bell of a 1929 Holton baritone horn that only partly succeeds at capturing the beauty of the design Another try at showing the engraving, with flourishes and ribbons that say “made by Frank Holton & Co, Elkhorn, Wis.”
October 19, 2023 at 4:43 PM
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My 1929 American style baritone is sure to confuse.
A satin silver baritone horn is propped up against a plastic picnic bench
October 19, 2023 at 3:46 AM