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🎬 Rocky Horror played to an empty theater for 54 weeks
In Portland Oregon a pesky pandemic was going to stop the 43 year streak of the showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In college somehow I fell into the crowd that would go to the local showing of RHPS, so I went one time. I didn’t have props, and I hadn’t ever seen the movie, so it was all a new experience with me. At the end, I realized I had seen something truly amazing.
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🎵 Taylor Swift takes back her music
Taylor Swift had lost control of the masters of her first 6 albums, so she took things in to her own hands and have started to re-record her songs. Fearless (Taylor’s Version is a re-recording of her second album.
Good for her, I’m hoping she posts the story over in /r/MaliciousCompliance.
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🖥 One mad man decided to run all macOS, Windows, and Linux on an i5 with 8GB AT ONCE
This goes in the if you have to ask why you’ll never understand department.
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💻 Scheduling and automating posts in a Hugo site
I’ve been working on a new little geeking site over at GozGeek.com as a way to share little geeky things I find on the internet and also write about my own geekspirations. Previously I would have created the site in Wordpress, but I wanted to learn Hugo so that’s what I used. One feature I use a lot in Wordpress is the scheduling of publishing posts, so I had to figure out how to do this in Hugo.
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🎮 New speedrun record for Super Mario Bros - breaking the 4:55 barrier
It’s amazing the single-frame control one has to have to beat Super Mario Bros in under 4:55!
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🚀 Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle
April 12th, 2021 was the anniversary of the first space shuttle launch. What amazes me is that it will be 50 years next year since President Nixon officially announced the space shuttle program.
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🎮 Super Mario Bros. NIB, only $660,000!
Sure, NFTs may be making the headlines with insane prices, but in the real world, so are real products. A Sealed Super Mario Bros. sells for $660,000. I wish I could find things like that in the bottom of my desk.
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🦸 Here's what happens when you buy a superhero
The Planet Money Podcast went through the process of buying a superhero.
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🛵 Here's the scooter for your grandparents
Are you running out of time and got things to do? Then I have the scooter for you!
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📟 Forget Comic Sans and check out Comic Mono
Most of the fonts we use on computers are proportional, where the letter i takes up less space than a w. A monospace font uses the same amount of space for every charater. This is important when programming. Well, now you can use all the fun of Comic Sans in your editor with Comic Mono.