John Calhoun
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John Calhoun
@engineersneedart.com
Old Macintosh shareware author. Making things I wish existed when I was a kid.

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Wait until you get a Japanese toilet.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thirteen minutes in and he says "Woke left and woke right" and any credibility I was allowing for him up to that point just vanishes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some commentors (not all) seem to think this was a softball/advertising pitch from Palantir—that Wired was paid for it.

I instead trust your integrity as a journalist, Steven. The guy you're interviewing is slippery. :-)
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's funny in a high school yearbook sort of way. The sneer, looking off into the distance….
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Been there a few times…
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The most amazing thing on YouTube (and Volume 2): youtu.be/5GiL7FJIHRQ
A Tribute To THE MUFFS volume1
YouTube video by 立飲みあっちゃん
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is a weird stretch, ha ha.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Mac Plus. I still have it (and it functions—needed recapping and reflowing the solder on the main connector on the mobo).
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Also, the first two (The) Thermals albums…
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Love them.
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Waiting for Texas to go after the alcohol companies. I understand that what they sell might be dangerous — I think they are aware of it to.
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
(I think Commodore might want to have a word with you though.)
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Congratulations!
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"GMC1" == "Golden Master, Candidate 1", I assume.
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
That is a wild CRT.
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Yeah, well Carl, Sagan (and his girlfriend) were two of those free loving hippies, ha ha.
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thanks. It really would have taken me a minute to look the date up and not look stupid. :-)
October 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Pioneer was the ... 1960's? Maybe a decade earlier?

By the time we get to Voyager in the 70's though, the nudes go away—we become more conservative.
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM