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indigenous canadian, recovering academic → writer, gamedev & interactive toolsmith with a penchant for modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, classic macs, and 80s/90s […]

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[grisly pixel art]

DreamWeb got a generally lukewarm reception from many gaming mags at release, but almost all of them mentioned how extreme some of the depicted violence was.

one of the early scenes in the game has some incredibly detailed animation worthy of […]

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October 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
laundry basket/prison

#catsofmastodon
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i have no idea if graffiti gear was a thing outside of canada, but i hope it was 🙏

it enjoyed a brief fad in my elementary school, until someone realized writing swear words in permanent marker was much more appealing than their autograph.

#canada #1980s
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
September 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
walnut brains and big dreams

#beaver #animals #alberta #yeg #canada
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
500+ canada geese on the trans canada trail

#canada #animals #yeg
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
two years ago our resident hare dug herself a soft spot on the front lawn, and sat in it for weeks.

twice a year - in the spring and autumn - she returns to that exact spot and has a good sit for a few days.

she arrived this morning

#rabbits #urbananimals #animals #yeg
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
happy 28th birthday ultima online!

#uo #ultima #retrogaming #win95
September 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
on the prairies of western canada it is harvest time for hops and apples

with the hot and dry autumn, we got a surprisingly bountiful harvest of both

#gardening #bloomscrolling #autumn #fruit
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The Invisible City Beneath Paris
by Robert Macfarlane, The New Yorker

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms and chambers.

https://archive.ph/0Z2g9

photo credit: Gaspard […]

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September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
today's software preservation task

one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc.

perhaps for […]

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September 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Back when I bought my iMac G5 as a grad student, I could never have afforded Macromedia Director - even with its heavily discounted “academic” license.

finally acquired it today, complete, so I can begin turning my upcoming book Mages & Modems, into an […]

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September 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
a 20km hike through prairie deciduous in the autumn.

this is the strathcona regional trail, which recently connected edmonton to fort saskatchewan.

difficulty: easy
distance: medium
surface: 10-20mm gravel

pic 2: there is a well hidden footpath connecting the […]

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September 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
IN case, like me, you have the dvd set and yearn for that katana letter opener, please mail in your store receipt and the form below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050311161005/http://www.grabtheadventure.com/GTA-offer.pdf
September 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
finally know what it means to be rich

i didn’t choose to rescue canadian culture from the landfill - it chose me

#canada #tv #highlander
September 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
discovered this ad for a Panasonic PV-SD4090 in a march 2000 issue of Wired mag

99% of the time i see sony mavica posts for retro digicams, but this one is a real treasure. those LS-120 drives did not really catch on at the time, and it’s a shame because iomega […]

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September 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
found a 20 year old receipt for my iMac G5 20-inch, ordered brand new from the apple store when i was a grad student. this was their flagship imac at the time.

it has been a long, long time since i even imagined spending that kind of money on a new computer 🤯 […]

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September 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
sometimes life presents you with a choice: you can spend a sunday in the comforts of home, or you can drive 4 hours to rescue 40 issues of Wired mag from hitting the recycle bin

the seller planned to toss these the next morning if someone didn’t pick them up […]

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September 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
in case anyone is curious about the internals of the pump. this is a magnetic rotor, which turns back and forth to move the water.

i noticed that the rotor magnet is cracked on both sides. i’ve never seen that before. it may be incidental to the pump failing […]

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September 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
today’s filthy shitty unhappy job: pulling a dead drain pump from my mom’s aging samsung front load washer.

the worst part was draining very old undrained effluvia.

the pump is accessed from the underside of the washer, via a small access port. just enough room […]

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September 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
how to instantly get yourself blocked by an ebay seller 😂
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
for almost thirty years i've thought about the early pre-alpha screenshots of Ultima IX

there is something incredibly charming about the combination of 3/4 perspective, 640x480 res, 256 colour palette, zero alpha blending or mipmapping or filtering, and global […]

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September 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
After Dark's bathroom wall screensaver

still hurts, don't it dark forces

#doom #vintageapple #macintosh #dosgaming
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
charming icon from kiddonet.com - an IE4-based browser for children.

reminds me of the macOS finder
#retrocomputing
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM