Today's archive upload is a pretty fucked up tape entitled "Teen Files Flipped - Racism." They are not joking about this warning! But also it has Coolio in it. archive.org/details/teen...

Found this incredible production logo for Maryland Instructional Television on a laserdisc.

A great long form article! Despite some frustrating combat mechanics, I still love the original Mirror’s Edge. Such a gorgeous game! If I had my way, every game would look like Mirror’s Edge or Jet Set Radio. www.designroom.site/mirrors-edge...

Shooting this must’ve been a pain: all those unsync’d CRTs would have shown up with rolling black bars in the film camera without specialized hardware. Maybe the PAL format helped here? Film is 1/24fps, which is almost a clean multiple of PAL’s 1/50fps. Were European arcade cabinets PAL or NTSC?

Apple IIGS boot screens rule

The Retrotink 4K can handle the Apple IIGS’s funky 15kHz RGB sync signal when it’s piped through BMoW’s Mac Sync-inator to get all the signals on the right pins.

Werewolf lookin ass moon in the backyard this morning

Got jury duty today. The view of Hood from the 17th floor of the courthouse is nuts, at least.

Found the PAX 2007 DVDs at the thrift store today. This was the year the Mega64 guys drew a really mean picture of my friend @lazerketten.bsky.social. Here's her and I (in the hat holding the SLR camera) almost 20 years ago, getting made fun of at the giant nerd convention, memorialized on DVD.

Explain Steven Seagal then

Read one the funniest things @1900hotdog.bsky.social published this year, for free: Dogfight Wild Tournament part 1 and 2. 1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc... 1900hotdog.com/2025/01/punc...

Has anybody seen our cat Meatloaf? Where’d that guy go?

The Vinegar Syndrome motherlode has arrived.

Been trying to rip CAV laserdiscs that encode “picture stop” frames to automatically pause the disc (to display a menu or still images or whatever). It’s annoying because some of the weirder discs I’d like to preserve pause a lot, which makes them awkward to record straight through.

My newest @archive.org upload: the first of about 20 LDs of early 90s supermarket in-store promotional material. It's mostly slow panning hero shots of paper towels and deli meats. I love it? There's only one disc ripped right now but I'll add to the collection over time. archive.org/details/in-s...

There are only two films I respect: the movie Rad, about a 80s hometown BMX hero, and the movie Thrashin’, about an 80s hometown skateboarding hero.

Today's IA upload is the laserdisc version of Muscle Motion! Let this bevy of hunks floor hump you into total physical fitness with a series of exercises that, frankly, won't do much of anything. I think you're just supposed to masturbate to this. archive.org/details/musc...

Remembered a funny story about driving to the Oregon coast from Portland with my friend Diana back in 2007, maybe? One way to get to the coast from Portland is to take the 26 west, which gets really windy and hilly once you get past Hillsboro.

Something to think about the next time you’re buying toilet paper and bananas

Seems like this Apple IIGS I got was actually used at Apple. Also has definitely been dropped at least once.

My wife @ladykaka.bsky.social and I, from the instrument.com 20th anniversary party

Another VHS upload to the archive: The World of Jump Roping, brought to you by the beefiest man to ever twirl a rope, Mark "Roth" Rothstein. Nobody has ever loved anything as much as Roth loves jump roping. archive.org/details/worl...

The only other thing I'll say about our current technological state of affairs is that we already invented the perfect catch-all solution to everything 40 years ago

Respectfully disagree. I think it makes people under-think what they’re doing, and have attended several incident reviews at work lately where the underlying cause was accepting LLM suggestions. You can show me all the toy software you want but so far this stuff is still a hinderance at scale.

Today's archive upload jumps the queue by singular request: Exposing the Satanic Web. Brought to you by Dave Roever, the phosphorus grenade that hit Dave in the face back in Vietnam, and the satanic panic of the late 80s. archive.org/details/expo...

The thing about preordering Analogue gear is that when it finally shows up, it feels like a gift from the person you were several years ago.

The answer is always and unequivocally: yes, absolutely

Love to do a little light tourism through the world of the insanely paranoid.

“This system will grind you up and spit you out and if the only thing you’ve got to wedge into the gears is a thick, beautiful pecker, then you’d be a fool to let social convention hold you back.”

fuck it. only good decisions from here on out

Today's upload is a rip of the second Atari E.R.I.C. point of purchase laserdisc. This disc ran inside an in-store kiosk and was driven by pressing keys on an Atari (likely 800?) computer, which then jumped to various time codes via a serial connection to the LD player. archive.org/details/atar...

Kate Bush: the maaaan with the chiiild in his eyes The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks

There are three men outside my office window cutting down a tree, and my ass is sitting at a computer like "I have a real job too! I type on the computer for a living!" like a complete asshole.

9am vs 4pm (I did none of this work)

Organizing my ripped VHS/LD stuff on the Plex server

There's a thread at work where folks are trying to get Claude/Cursor to stop praising everything they type, and it's genuinely incredible to me that they are dumping paragraphs of text into a markdown file begging an LLM text editor to stop s'ing their d's.

Ripped some laserdiscs today.

Finally found a copy of the second laserdisc for Atari E.R.I.C. in-store computer sales kiosks from the early 80s. I have a decent rip of disc 1 up on IA; I’ll try to get this one up soon too. archive.org/details/atar...

A place I was an early employee at is having their 20th anniversary party tonight and holy shit does that make me feel old.

Decades of overpromising have evolved the Peter Molyneux Hype Cycle into something really special. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-abo...

I’m old, the things I love are outdated, I accept that now

One last disassembly of the Amiga 3000 to recap the video circuit, then I’m slapping a Video Toaster 2.0 in here and calling it done!

Today's VHS upload is The Value of Telling the Truth. It's about a lying little piece of shit and how all the world suffers for his hubris. Worth watching for the amazing synthesizer track used for the title. archive.org/details/valu...

I have gathered my thoughts and turned it into a fun blog about how IMDb is hell. I hope you like a long, under-explained list of movie ratings. aftermath.site/imdb-review-...

And here's a new trailer. One of the best we've ever done.