I accidentally flew with 4 inch long OLFA razor blade refills in the bottom of my laptop bag 4 times, twice around the Boston Marathon bombing, from and to Boston.

I didn’t find them until cleaning out my bag at home after the last flight. Basically some tape could make them into box cutters like the 9/11 guys supposedly used.

But I had to take off my shoes and belt every time, to feel safe.

I helped run a Kickstarter where one of our rewards was Mac and PC software on custom USB sticks.

We had a couple hubs set up and cloned the drives 20 at a time.

Actually our dog does sit that way. He looks broken when he does it too. The rest of that photo is whack though.

Of course I can’t find a good photo of it now, but if you look closely you can see it in this one.

He’s a Swedish Valhund btw, weird little dog.

Ellie dozing in the snow.

When I bought my Vanagon 8-9 years ago, the spare tire still said made in west Germany!

I replaced it along with the rest of the badly work truck tires that were on it.

I’m 46 and we got a 14.4 modem in around 1992-3 I think. We used gopher and ftp then later hotline to trade shareware, then warez and serialz.

I miss those days, but I don’t miss downloading 8 of 9 parts of a file and not being able to reconnect to the server for the last one.

I used to get to go inside to turn on check and setup the computer lab before school in jr high. Mostly spent cleaning rollers or looking for occasional missing mouse balls.

Got to play too if there was spare time, and it sure beat standing in a prison like asphalt court yard for 30 minutes in the winter dark.

Most of New England is named that way too. The problem is that the same road ends up with 2 names depending on which direction or end you are in.

Got luck getting an ambulance dispatched to the right place (in my unfortunate experience).

That’s an absurd amount if honking.

Try and record it if you do.

Telling people in New England to use the Shaka hand gesture is gonna end up a lot different.

Best case scenario, they think it’s the “I love you” hand sign. 🤟

As a designer who turned into a developer, had to do minor server stuff, manage my own freelance projects and debug it all…

I quit and started working in old cars and handyman stuff. Not a Luddite, but fuck marketing, temporarily organizing pixels, and spying on users for pennies.

Careful things can get out of hand fast.

They’re a bit smaller, but I’d classify them as a fur conglomerate.

I can tell you from experience, art school won’t help.

My mom’s house is at a T intersection at the bottom of a steep hill. When it snows at least one car ends up taking out the rock wall we built when I was a kid. Then I have to come back and rebuild it before the next storm.

The last time it happened we could see the path the guy took home as the oil leaked out of his pan after mounting the wall.

It’s a 30 mph road that loops so it’s mostly only delivery people and residents, but no one has made it more than 10 feet into the yard in 30 years, though the accident rate has seemed to increase in the last 10.

Also hot chocolate tastes 10x+ better when you’ve been out in the cold.

The trick is you have to be out there for at least 20 minutes to acclimate. Otherwise it just hurts a little and then you get hot when you go back inside.

Source: I work outside in Northern New England including on the sides of mountains.

Peugeot and Aprilia scooters used a gameboy with a special connector cartridge to scan for fuel injection issues and tune the ECU.

https://www.motor1.com/news/701772/game-boy-diagnostic-cartridge-peugeot-aprilia-suzuki/

Had to buy one of eBay to remove the speed limiter from one for a friend a few years ago.

Design lead here. I know photoshop like the back of my hand, but I also know Pixelmator (Mac only), Sketch and Affinity. All are very nice interfaces, one-time, or major version licenses, and smaller, responsive dev teams.

There are compromises in all software, but my team uses Pixelmator and Affinity because we’re a small company and it won’t hurt their design skills to know more tools besides the Adobe suite.

Gimp for a long time had shitty shortcuts and was quite unfriendly to Mac users (the REAL vendor lock-in in the design world btw). Him is just too slow to load, and ugly to look at, similar but less so with Inkscape.

Big firms might be harder to change, but it’s possibly and there are really good alternatives that Adobe probably worries a little about. Unfortunately they aren’t FOSS for the most part.

It’s a scenic railway, so it’s antique train cars that serve dinner, sight see, or recreate the Polar Express for kids in the winter.

It might do 50kph (about 30mph) briefly, but mostly just puffs along at half that.

Once they know you sure. Strangers, hardly ever.