A couple of retrospectives on one of the greatest movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Enduring Myths of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Spielberg Revisit Raiders of the Lost Ark – The Hollywood Reporter. For some reason I don’t remember seeing it in the theater, although I know I must have. It ran for 10 months, so I figure I saw it at least a couple of times.

Here’s a microwave that runs Linux for voice control. It’s only a matter of time before Doom is ported to it. Also, one step closer to getting Linux on my toaster.

Remember in the past when you could fit a bootable copy of Linux on to one single floppy drive? Well, remember no more because you can now do it again with a modern Linux kernel.

First it was COBOL programmers that were needed and now we find out that Fortran programmers are also needed. Too bad I left my COBOL skills back in the 80s, I could be sitting pretty right now.

First we have the death of Adobe Flash and hot on its heels is the death of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Well, it’s only on life support, the plug will be pulled in June of 2022. Does anyone still run IE?

A University of Cambridge researcher was written very succinctly how social media likes are lazy and useless. “It is a form of pseudo-engagement which absolves us of the guilt of not responding to others’ posts but creates the bare minimum of human connection.” A couple of years ago I read the book The Circle bu Dave Eggers. He saw back in 2014 how useless likes were. If something doesn’t require effort, how much value can you really place on it?

My notes are not fancy This article can be condensed to “all of my notes are in my Notes folder”. Well, that isn’t quite correct, I do keep a Projects folder for notes that have a project in common. All of my notes are in Markdown format. Plain Jane, vanilla markdown. It does everything that I need, and nothing more. I also don’t have pictures or drawings in my notes. You could add them, but since git doesn’t really like binary files and I store my notes in git, I try to limit the amount of binary files I’ve added.

What NES Development Looks Like On The Apple II

The cheer mom case in PA has gotten a little more interesting. The mom in this case was charged with creating “deepfake” videos in an attempt to shame members of her daughter’s cheerleading squad. But, upon further analysis, the video could be authentic.

Not only is working long hours pretty bad for you, but your computer is out to get you too. The cat has no comment.