Action Shot

unparalleled aesthetics

I got a template in the mail! Clever marketing from the direct mail company there? But NCOA makes me think that the National Council On Aging, the Non-Commissioned Officer's Association, the National Change Of Address program, or the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia is trying to get in touch.

just in case you wanted to play the MS-DOS-based hacking game that came on a floppy disk in the Sneakers press kit, we've got it emulated in-browser over at @archive.org: archive.org/details/Snea...

Getting The Gang Back Together

we are once again having the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich

Exciting update!

There's a great chance to see some aurora tonight! A few tips for the casual observer in this thread. First off, this forecast shows potential overhead aurora (green band) and the edge of where you might be able to see it near the horizon (green line) www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aur...

At this point I think I've dreamed enough weird food over the last couple years that I could open a food cart that serves only food that came to me in dreams. Last night's is a foodstuff called "Performance" which, in the dream, I was told is "a San Diego thing". Here is how Performance works:

uh he just plucked this, scrambled, out of a toy pile and did this. I have never seen him touch a Rubix Cube before in my life (video is just of the last bit after I realized what was happening)

I bet these would taste amazing with the Cesium Shrimp www.vice.com/en/article/s...

the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club has announced their fall open houses (Nov 15-16, 22-23, 29-30, and Dec 6-7) and I cannot strongly recommend enough that you go if you like over-the-top model train things www.cgmrc.com/events

Neuromancer, Wintermute, Neuromute, and Wintermancer

Thinking about this, and also need a source for the original

Yesterday at the beach, the four-year-old proclaimed “I’m the king, and I stomp the water, and punch it away!” then furiously attacked the ocean. I think I raised Xerxes I??

found at my dad’s place. 1941, The Fruit Dispatch Company

why aren’t I still here

this has been studied and researched and the answer is, of course, The Most Unwanted Song, which I keep a copy of on my phone in case anyone tries to play music in my car during a drive www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPu...

ok so does anyone know why so many hand-cranked kitchen appurtenances have pentagonal shafts? This is a flour sifter, a pepper grinder, and a coffee grinder

Just a little further (Sourdough Lookout, North Cascades National Park)

Charged and ready, North Cascades-bound

Benacerraf, "What Numbers Could not Be" (1965)

in 1981 Barry Moser gave a talk on his woodcuts for the Arion edition of Moby Dick. I have the pamphlet and the original woodcut he made for that pamphlet

I made a new image macro if anyone needs it

Hey out there to our Bay Area ATProto nerds and ATProto curious friends. @germnetwork.com and ATProto Community Fund are hosting an ATProto meetup at the Internet @archive.org this coming Tuesday July 8th! Come on out, hack and chat: lu.ma/mf4n7jbi

🇨🇦 Wishing everyone a Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦! gifcities.org/gram/35d4bc2... Send a Gifgram to a pal - part of the GifCities project at @archive.org 🎆

Someone's selling all these CDs of 1990s-2000s radio airchecks from the california radio spectrum. If someone paypals or venmos me $200, I'll have them send them to me and we'll see about getting them up. DM me.

Post yourself from another era

The last Orange Julius in Portland is closing on Sunday: pdx.eater.com/restaurant-n... "The 82-year-old owner died on Monday, May 19... He began working at Lloyd Center in 1961 while still in high school. After a career as a professional barrel jumper, in 1983 [he opened the] Orange Julius."

I feel like I couldn't have been more clear on this point

sadly they have since changed the packaging but a conversation today made me recall the amazing suggestions that just a few short years ago were on the bottom of Reynolds foil boxes

a lovely limenitis camilla

not going to engage directly but the Signal thing would be a lot funnier if from 22apr2020 to 6apr2021 they hadn't withheld source code while a cryptocurrency payment system was added to which the then-head of Signal was a paid advisor and who was giving interviews denying that during the interval

You’re spending Bloomsday traipsing around Dublin on a pilgrimage to the sites mentioned in Ulysses, I’m reading a blank physical replica of the Shakespeare & Co edition with a half-pound brass bookmark containing a quote from the (non-existent) text. We are not the same

Happy belated Father’s Day! Spent the weekend camping with the family. That’s my boy with the ukulele.

at the new Nodoguro. Still the best restaurant in Portland, and not by a little bit

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

it is happening again

so my dad just texted me this saying “something interesting a friend of mine is doing in Portland” and uhhhhh www.martinauctioneers.com/auction/carr...

a little weekend camping with the kiddo at Trillium Lake

"Classical watches display time, but can hardly do anything else. This limitation is artificial : for instance several people confessed to be often in want of mustard... and what is the point of knowing time if you cannot get mustard?" girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr/mustard/arti...

reading the Oregon City Commission Minutes from June 1914 to learn more about the platting of the Oregon City Municipal Elevator and acquiring Other Knowledge as well

always he is sleeping like this

👀 Watch government transparency in action—frame by frame. We just launched a live feed from the microfiche digitization lab! 📽️ Real-time scanning of government documents & records for Democracy's Library. ⤵️

Theo Maritimus Piscator

thinking about sorrel

for a fun bonus adventure try to figure out what font I wrote this in

my friend: can someone remind me what i’m supposed to do with all this sorrel me: I’M GLAD YOU ASKED