Semi-official photo dump from this weekend's 2025 Eternal Weekend | North America #EternalWeekend

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Updated regularly through the weekend!

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Random thing I've learned about how I think in recent years: my mind doesn't really do rote memorization, it almost always abstracts anything in memory by at least one level -- moreso as I've aged -- so recalling can occasionally be a challenge when I can't easily-reverse the abstraction.

How to get my interest in one sentence.

Walk around Akihabara and see an "SOS" popup shop and think nothing of it for a minute, probably just another gacha.

Then I start hearing nostalgic music I recognize. (a regular occurrence here)

Ooooh, _that_ SOS.

Then I walk much more interestedly into the 20th Anniv. Haruhi Suzumiya popup shop.

Well, I'm randomly in the area while Spotlight Series Chiba is going on, so this album has some stuff from that.

...stuff from other things as well, but also that.

Updated throughout the next couple of weeks.

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Run it Back

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSr...

This is going to be an interesting show to broadcast, a lot of compressed schedules and new equipment. If all goes well, most of the graphics will be similar, but the broadcast will look decently-better.

#VintageMagic

This weekend has been a vibe. I don’t think I’ve ever said that about a travel show.

Need a temporary Raspberry Pi heatsink, so I'm just putting a small steel d20 on the SoC to get the job done...

Feels like companies are doing another "people have large screens so we can make are UI larger" enshittification. Noticed it with McDonald's app recently on a 15 Pro, and you can't easily get more than 3 Youtube videos to show up in a row now. Increase width? Bigger videos!...

Random Apple prediction: within the next few years, Apple will come out with a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion box.

A TB5 port can deliver equivalent bandwidth to PCIe 4.0x16 with some margin, and PCIe is 95% of the difference between the Studio and Pro.

Just got an upgraded keyboard (Keychron K4 v2->v3) and it's taking a while to get used to it.

Key layout is identical, but switches and keycaps are different. Same intended behavior, but sounds and feel is just that little bit different.

They also got rid of my preferred RGB effect...

random optical illusion while in photoshop

(both circles are the same hex code)

Businesses putting something like "since 2005" in their logos or slogans makes me want to have a logo that goes "until 2035" and just see who it throws off.

Something UI-related about this site that bothers me: there's no tooltips on these buttons. It's making an assumption that the language of social media interaction is culturally-ingrained, which honestly feels like it makes adoption just that little bit harder.

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast.

There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

Something chuffs me these days in going to a site for an older client base that I can immediately-tell was made over 10 years ago.

Oh, you have a little visitor counter...

Oh, that page is auto-playing 90s pop music...

It hasn't been updated in 10 years...wait, the newsletter's current!

I just got done with an international trip, where I left Madison at the same time as a friend going elsewhere, who gets very anxious with flying logistics.

Coming back, I kept thinking about how the little hiccups I was experiencing everywhere as-normal would be awful for someone like them.

Eternal Weekend 2024 Arguably-Official Photo Album

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