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Nerdy

A bit nerdy

: Vietnamese restaurant in Balaclava, Melbourne. One wall is the remnants of an outside wall with the …

: Random dinosaur fossil found at Twin Reefs, Victoria. Appears to be a Pareidoliasaur.

: Cray-1 vs iPhone 13 I remember when the Cray-1 was the iconic supercomputer of the day but I’d heard that modern …

: I just spent way too much time tracking down the source of a bird call that’s been haunting me …

: There is nothing more annoying than half-hearing South Park from the next room.

: Gina Rinehart says renewable energy could use one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land. Is …

: It’s a delightful morning and I’ve managed to get out the door for a walk for the second …

: Sigh. Just got my first Mastodon spam. It was really dumb spam, but I clicked on it because …

: I guess I’m not starting the bonfire any time soon…

: Seriously FaceBook? Putting a link to my blog article is “spam”? That’s kind of …

: Beeper is the Black Knight of chat clients – Apple keeps hacking off limbs but they’re …

: I’m collecting alternative names so I don’t have to say “X, formerly Twitter”. So far I’ve found: …

: Good grief. These guys are like some one-dimensional super-villain in a crappy B movie. …

: The five second time machine I was walking along the Warburton Trail the other day and I passed through a grove of pine trees. …

: Here’s an excellent video from @karpathy@sigmoid.social with some intriguing ways to think …

: Google Assistant seems to be doing a HAL 9000… Ever since Google’s started cutting back on that …

: I can’t seem to find Elon Musk’s Mastodon handle to follow. Please advise.

: Today's rabbit-hole - the IndieWeb and Micro.blog Over a week ago I read this article by Cory Doctorow and it sparked a cascade of neurons that have …

: Wow, that was a whole new rabbit-hole. I wanted to consolidate my identity, cross-post to Mastodon …

: Dance like nobody's watching, blog like nobody's reading I like to write and I’d like to get better at it, but if you think you have to come up with …

: Merlynston Primary School, 1942-43 My dad, Edgar (Ted) Slinger, found these photos and thought they would be of interest to anyone who …

: ❝And, in the end...❞ Yes, that’s us. Sometimes it feels like I’m still living in the seventies. Well... a bit. My adult …

: An Autumn day It’s Autumn and it’s a Friday. In Melbourne that can mean a dreary end to the week, but …

: In which I get teary over an archive of Byte magazine covers Sigh. I came across this archive of all the Byte magazine covers which some energetic soul has …

: Mount Buffalo Chalet, 1952 My Dad asked me to scan some photos taken when he was working as a maintenance carpenter at Mount …

: Kids Cant Use Computers and This Is Why Consumer Electronics Sucks I saw an article today called Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You and it …