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Oh wow, I haven't read the issue cover-to-cover but I didn't see @waynecoyne mentioned there.

I'll make sure that I do this justice and will see if I can find an ANSI C (or A2) sized scanner for the cover art.

 

@[email protected] yeah, good times. Bad reception though! And Radio K only had a daytime AM license at the time. That's why they were 'open to 9pm'!!!

 

You had to work harder to listen to good music back then. @radiok remembers. I'm sure @djkevincole of remembers.

 

Just amazing work by @chankfonts including design, content (and fonts!) and photography by @midwestartbuyer and tons of other people...

Will upload to @internetarchive when I'm happy with the results..

 

The @dnalounge webcast player sprouted a bridged IRC chat during the DJ set. Will be really interesting once it switches back to the music video jukebox on https://www.dnalounge.com/musicvideos/

Stream it:
https://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/video.html


 

Connecting the community is definitely an 🌟essential🌟 service.

Stay safe and healthy!

 

Traded Saturday morning cartoons for Saturday music. Teenage Kicks on The Current by Jim McGuinn followed by Dandelion radio.

https://www.thecurrent.org/programs/teenage-kicks

@thecurrent @jmcgnn @dandelionradio

 

Anyone Chicago Googlers here?

Apparently there's a fire-bowl on the roof of the Chicago office. I happen to know the artist that made it. He asked me if anyone had photos of it they could share.

If you do let me know and I'll get them to him!

[we was also a loyal G+ user back in the day!!!]

https://johntunger.com/





 

And here's the song of the same name by The Suburbs.

A huge shout out to Owen Murphy and John Richards for playing it this morning on KEXP and reminding us that we're not alone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAAkro0jKFY

@RadioCoachOwen @loserboy @TheSuburbsBand @kexp

 

It's my birthday and the world isn't fooling around, but we can do our best to help out the most vulnerable.

So help each other, be weird, have awe, sing, dance and be human!

 

It's live! loving your anecdotes and the narration by @yeahrightpos

I do think it's time for an at-home 'Summer Splash Party' where we put on our swim gear and dance to disco 🕺💃.

(check out the clip at 20:24!)

 

Thank you Dominik, I have been blessed with a treasure of digital memories to rediscover and share. So glad that you were able to enjoy my journey through the archives.

 

According to this interview with R.U. Sirius

"Howard Rheingold swears that he’s Michael Wilson, who was involved in the development of the TV show Burn Notice..."

https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-books-fiction/on-music-mondo-mayhem-an-interview-with-r-u-sir...

 

Also the same week I discovered there's a Jay's Longhorn documentary..

https://longhornfilm.com/

 

Oh wow.

Already have @djkevincole a few minutes in...

https://www.tpt.org/minnesota-experience/video/first-avenue-closer-to-the-stars-preview-37031/

@FirstAvenue

 

 

Something about these times that I feel your loss as my own. 💔

Thank you for connecting the community and being there for everyone, as Ralph was there for you.

 

We'll all probably remember the first friend who contracted COVID-19. For me that's Andrea. She wrote about it on her Tinyletter.

Please read, if only to prepare yourself for what is to come.

https://tinyletter.com/slingshotannie/letters/an-abundance-of-caution





 

 

Not to be grim about it but everyone may want to consider doing your paperwork for medical power of attorney and/or a health directive. At the very least partners should consider adding each other as trusted "https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/life-care-plan/choose-agent" (which is what Kaiser calls it). You'd be able to access tests and communicate with Doctors on behalf of each other.

Having gone through this I feel very fortunate that I was able to make medical decisions for another and knew what the right thing was to do.





 

Thank you for letting me share Julie's memories, tacky postcards and all, with everyone.

If anyone reading this has suffered a similar loss, please feel free to reach out for a sympathetic ear or for help finding memories in the archives. DMs open.

 

Actually with some tweaks I got all the grunge list content I was looking for!

Still think it would be awesome if the backup tapes were found. @herf wrote a great article about the lyrics part of the site:

http://stereopsis.com/lyrics.html

 

Thank you for your sympathy and for all the work you've done to make @PerkeepOrg into a such a useful tool for personal digital preservation.

 

Honored that I was able to tell my story of restoration and healing on the @internetarchive blog today.

Thank you @whanamura and the IA team for your compassion and for preserving so many cherished memories of my life with @jflindner.

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1240740409204072449

 

that Google Analytics referer spam is a thing.





 

Aha. swore that I already checked. So yay!

But sadly... many/most of the leaf pages are empty or truncated. So sad :(

The quest continues!

 

A challenge to the data hoarders out there. Find the contents of the amazing music archive that one lived at archive.uwp.edu (FTP or Gopher) and was mirrored to mirrors.aol.com.

@textfiles - didn't see it in the boneyard. Ideas?

http://www.folklib.net/index/uwp_gone.shtml

 

We've now entered the Cyberspace future predicted 30 years ago. Expecting a resurgence in Industrial Music..

https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410

 

some Bluetooth speakers can also operate as a speakerphone over USB, which works great for GVC calls.





 

St Patrick's Day Isolation mood...

🎵 Caffeine sugar and THC
Is all that the doctors are gonna find in me
When they do the autopsy
The micro-organism won't get me 🎵

Remember to support local artists like @[email protected]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83rheFrjiY

 

I think there are more than 50 people in this grocery store.






 

Really should do something with my makamaka.me domain which I shelved when I realized that I was using AGPL software...

I ended up just contributing to the Mastodon Patreon and joined https://social.coop/

[also looks like go/makamaka still works!!!]





 

RT @MCTW5: @joshsternberg Gen X has the last laugh. https://t.co/7r13SaKaUY

 

Trying to talk sense into my 84 year old father in law, who has a number of health issues...

"I lived through the real bad polio epidemic, and in our small circle of friends there 5 cases and one close friend died. We do not know one person with virus! This said I'll still be very careful."

 

Post yur playlist plz.. There are only so many Neil Cicierega tracks out there... Save me before I start hitting the Nightcore...

True story: After too much time in the Fortress of Solitude Superman morphed into Bizarro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGa1b0m-LWY

 

US folks should consider updating wageworks for commuter benefits.

I found out the hard way that Clipper has a max accumulation of BART passes...





 

go/culturalinsights

I haven't seen that many animated gifs since geocities...





 

The end times approach. Gopher protocol over HTTP and support for TLS.

But seriously I now have the weirdest Masto timeline with Adam Curry NoAgenda Show folks and retro-hacker Gopher Protocol people.

https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goh





 

We've all been there, on the tenth page of search results, not finding what you're looking for. This is a whole 'nother level. Loved it.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx/158-the-case-of-the-missing-hit?te=1&nl=watching&...





 

about Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Say thanks the next time you use your Kanban, or reduce toil instead of just automating tasks....

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/the-mother-of-modern-management/






 

I have that whole email thread archived.. What a trip.. Quite pleased that you're still leading on alternative ways to fund, create, and deliver quality content.

 

Indeed! I've been following the growing community. Definitely an example of a Retro Upgrade for our current computing environment.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RetroUpgrade

 

Blaming the IRS for your poorly engineered software is sad. Most people can e-file.

Instead please:

1. Apologize for the problem.
2. Tell us when it will be fixed.
3. Remove the flippant smiley from your signature.

 

Looks like Adam Curry spoke about Internet Gopher on the Rogan Podcast, so I had to dig this out of the email archives from September '93
@noagenda @adamcurry : https://t.co/1Zt9ZgNkbZ https://t.co/rfg9tdFje9

 

For some reason I always thought of Six Apart as Franz Ferdinand.

And for the ultimate crossover here's a Franz cover of Serge Gainsbourg

https://youtu.be/G_zCprdV5M8

 

If you want you can refer to case It's closed, but should have details.

Intuit/TurboTax has a market cap of $74B, and just spent $7B to buy Credit Karma. They can afford to hire people to manually fix these returns...

 

Heather -- please read the full thread (there are three pages of unhappy customers) It's a bug in Turbotax and it needs to be fixed.

Sending people who have experienced a loss to read IRS forms is just cruel.

 

Turbotax, you had one job.. Because of this bug surviving spouses have had to mail instead of e-file for years. I escalated with support. They said it would be fixed, but could not notify me when. Just keep trying...

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/rejected-2019-return-based-on-my-deceased-spouse-...

@turbotax @freetaxusa

 

By popular demand I started (manually) cross-posting to Instagram.

https://instagram.com/1500wordmtu

One of these days they'll have a proper API for individuals. Their current one is just super hostile...
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/

 

So yeah, don't forget about your Drive Birthday quota expiration..

The current deal is 2TB for 9/year, which isn't bad. You also get 100 'play points', which nets you in raw play credit or more if you use in-app.

And plus it saves me from looking at S3 compatible archive options now... (I use restic + rclone to backup to drive..)