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My dad also has a problem.
An inbox with 491,230 emails.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Seen at my local Barnes & Noble
A copy of Neuromancer on a shelf, there's a handwritten note below it that reads: "You'd best start believin' in cyberpunk dystopias, yer' in one."
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Either I have a lot to learn about what materials actually go into auto body repair or this shop thinks that all scary symbols mean the same thing.
A white sign with black and red text is on the wall next to a garage door. A car with no bumper can be seen on the right. The sign reads: HAZARDOUS WORK AREA AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK A large red radioactive symbol sits in the center.
August 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Marge Simpson is holding a potato. The captions says "I just think they're neat."
August 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I think I may be approaching mad-scientist levels.
A very messy workbench with 3 CRTs in various states of disassembly. Various electronic gadgets litter the workbench.
August 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I never end up buying them, but I always like to see what weird action figures they have at the 'antique' place I stop by whenever I'm in Vermont.
A Star Trek Deep Space Nine action figure. Per the label, it appears to be a Tosk, a Reptilian Alien from the Gamma Quadrant.
July 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The Internet Archive literally picked the most perfect Old Game screenshot to send to my inbox to solicit a donation.

It worked!
Screenshot of an email from The Internet Archive. The title screen to Zak McKracken is the header image.
July 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Beagle Bros Bulletin (Summer/Fall 1984) Micro Cookbook What's for dinner decisions made in an instant
July 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I was looking at the shelving under my Apple 2e and I realized I had a lot more documentation than I had originally thought. Here's a sample.
Various Apple 2 manuals: Disk II Monitor II User's Manual Scribe Printer User's Manual DOS User's Manual DOS Programmer's Manual Apple IIe Owner's Manual I Speak BASIC to My Apple Teacher's Manual Computers for Kids Apple II Plus Edition Apple Logo manual.
July 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Well, I got all the parts in for my uConsole.... now to find what to use it for.
A small handheld computer with Matrix rain displayed on it sits upon the a laptop keyboard.
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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I have no idea what I'm doing.
A CRT with lit function keys sits on a messy workbench. A breadboard with various colored wires is connected in the rear.
June 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Oh. Huh? I guess I pre-ordered a clockwork pi back in February?
ClockworkPi.com Your order has been shipped. You can see the items that have been sent to you and track your shipment below. Thanks for shopping with us. Product shot of the uConsole, a small calculator shaped computer.
June 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Well. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with a 42U rack.... but it was only $10.
A 42U (7 ft) server rack stands in a somewhat messy garage.
May 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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My fingers are still freezing, but I managed to make this tiny cable to plug into the JST header on the NVME HAT.

(Perhaps I should have brought the tools in from the shed?)
Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVME HAT attached. A pair of red and black wires go from the GPIO pins to a JST connector on the HAT.
January 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Weee, resilvering is done!
Screenshot of the TrueNAS interface, showing 28.9TiB usable space.
January 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I don't remember anything about it, but I found it in the basement a bit ago and the cover is great.
The cover of My Teacher Flunked the Planet, by Bruce Coville
January 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM