This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

TIL the Kensington Turbo Mouse can use a billiard ball.

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #VintageAP

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Photo of a beige trackball with an 11 red/white striped billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

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Photo of a beige trackball with an 8 black billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

BRB. Moving to Ireland.

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A picture of a train. Text superimposed over the picture reads: "Irish Rail introduces 100 Euro fine for playing music without earphones."

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"It's had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who've felt different and marginalized."
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/08/celebrating-50-years-of-the-rocky-horror-picture-show/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It should be illegal to sell "half and half" that is mostly skim milk and corn syrup. I generally don't do the shopping b/c I always get the wrong thing, and yesterday I grabbed what looked like a regular half-n-half off the store shelf but when I woke up w/ today's coffeine found it tasted like ass. What is the point of low-fat half-n-half? Doesn't the name itself suggest it's at least half cream? What a scam.

Yesterday my daughter emailed me, asking why I didn't do something useful with my time.
Talking about "doing-something-useful" seems to be her favorite topic of conversation.
She was "only thinking of me," she said, and suggested that I go down to the Senior Center and hang out with some of the other old fellows.
So I did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on her. I emailed her and told her that I had joined a Parachute Club.
She replied, "Are you nuts? You are 71 and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes?"
I told her that I even got a Membership Card and e-mailed a copy to her.
She immediately telephoned me and yelled, "Good grief, Dad, where are your glasses?! This is a Membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club."
"Oh man, I'm in trouble again," I said. "I really don't know what to do. I signed up for five jumps a week!!"
The line went dead.
Life as a Senior Citizen is not getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun.

Here are 5 of the first 6 grievances with King George III that the colonists put in the US Declaration of Independence:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

#uspol

Listen, it’s very simple: In Britain we use the metric system, except for beer and milk, which come in pints. But not plant milk — that comes in litres.

Oh, and distances are in miles. But only if they’re too far to walk — if you can walk it it’s in metres. If you’re driving then your fuel efficiency is in miles-per-gallon, but petrol is sold in litres.

Oh, and your height is in feet and inches. If you don’t care much about your weight it’s in stone (but not pounds — no-one can remember how many pounds are in a stone and it’s hard to read the little tick marks on analogue scales). If you do care about your weight then your digital scales tell you it in kilograms.

Oh, and if there’s a heatwave then tabloids will forecast a “100°F scorcher”. But if it’s cold then it’s an “arctic blast” with “widespread temperatures below 0°C”.

I hope this clears things up.

Guys I figured it out

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The original Macintosh HD icon from system 6

The most incredible thrift store find

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A button down short sleeve shirt printed with bright rainbow care bears, ranging from muscular to chubby, in various ropes, jockstraps, and thongs

#3124 - Grounded

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The comic shows a scene at an airport gate, viewed from above. There is an airplane parked with its boarding bridges connected to the terminal. Several airport service vehicles (luggage carts, fuel trucks, etc.) are scattered around the tarmac. Text reads: "This is your captain speaking. As you’ve probably noticed, we’re still grounded due to weather. But the first officer and I have been looking at bridge clearance maps and our top taxiing speed, and we have an idea." Hidden text: "We should have you at the gate in just under two hours--two and a half if we get pulled over."

I hate it when people bang on my door and tell me I have to be "saved" or else I'll "burn".

I hate their big red trucks and flashing lights too.

Typography is important, folks

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A title card for “The Final Stretch” but the type choices make it look a lot more like it says “Anal Stretch”

My cartoon for this weekend’s @theguardian.com books.

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Title: Doubts cast on another beloved inspirational tale Panel 1 Our investigations team has learned that the names "Jack" and "Jill" were invented to conceal a less than salubrious past. (image of smiling Jack and Jill with a bucket) Panel 2 The pair claim to have climbed a hill to "fetch a pail of water" but we found a number of water sources much closer to their cottage. (image of a water pump, atwo fountains and a drinking trough) Panel 3 (image of a book with the title "WELL: a memoir" by Jill) Jill now concedes that her account of Jack's fall and her own "Tumbling After" was intended to convey feelings, not "Cold facts". Panel 4 Multiple medical experts expressed Surprise that a broken crown was successfully treated with "Vinegar and brown paper. (Image of Jack with is head wrapped in brown paper beside an xray of his damaged skull).

Leisure Suit Larry solved the age verification problem years ago, the UK should just use that.

https://ledger-cli.org

I feel this

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monkeyuser.com cartoon about codebases and neglected dependencies.

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr I grew up similarly. There's not much I can't do (aside: I despise plumbing). Taught myself BASIC at 6 on a TI 99/A (interesting but longish story). Started roofing at 7 (Uncle owned the company, journeyman by 10, also hate roofing). Also at ten found myself at NASA/Navy Base where I learned to electronics/RF and solder small things instead of gutter seams (thanks US Navy!)

Done construction off and on when our industry crashes occasionally.

I like other polymaths. You rock.