Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
I briefly had a penpal in early middle school. I think it was facilitated by a youth periodical(1), and they were in some developing country. I can’t remember details. The back and forth exchange lasted maybe three or four rounds, I’m not sure.
@GeePawHill I recall a middle school art class exercise where we turned a portrait upside down and drew it as we saw it.
Some very odd proportions like giant cranium happened. Mine had done that but also the clasped hands in lap turned into a very tangled mess.
The teacher explained it as my brain jumped in and tried to think of them as hands and fingers instead of the exercise of just seeing the shapes and lines.
@ZenHeathen Now I somehow want to put up a little library that only has out of print sci fi classics in it and . . . how would that work exactly, with an increasingly rare source.
@ZenHeathen Libraries have limited space and e lending needs the book to be in some provider's catalog for that purpose and I hate everything about both of those things being limited.
I've checked the local library and its regional partners and yup, there's like five of Pohl's books available in hardcopy and none are of the Heechee series. Zero available for e-lending. :-(
I somehow have a headache that isn't a headache? Mostly a light discomfort between my eyebrows and at my temples, plus my eyes won't focus on text very well at the moment. Weird.
Already checked to ensure my glasses screws haven't started to loosen up again, so it's not focal misalignment there.
@qwazix A micro brew pup in town had a live edge slab of wood that they used the fractal burning technique on, then filled the centre crevices of those lines with blue resin, and a varnish or shellac or something on top. It was first a table top and after renovations became their serving bar top.
It is nifty to see, but yeah... keep them super amps away from me, thanks :)
