Joe, 31, he/they
Computational astrophysics researcher, planetary weather in the Optics Valley (prev. Yorkshire), camera wrangler, appreciator of lens & mirror, halide enjoyer.
Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus removing their holiest of relics (OBD II port scanner) from its reliquary (DeWalt toolbox) to commune with the machine spirit (check engine light) of their prized archeotech ground speeder (2011 Honda Fit)
Sony: we are getting rid of game discs forever fuck you
Microsoft: our next console cant even read game discs fuck you
Nintendo: Samus is BACK and BOY, is she HUNGRY
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
Launch of McDonnell Douglas's Space Shuttle proposal. The orbiter is carried to altitude aboard a winged flyback booster, which can also be used with a conventional upper stage for heavy uncrewed launches
#OnThisDay Front page, New York Times, August 10th, 1988.
Thanks to digitization efforts we can check out the coverage of Zero Cool's (in)famous day in the NYT archive. Far out!
📰 www.cyberdelianyc.com/www.nytimes....
1,507 systems. Happy #ZeroCoolDay.
#hackers#hackersmovie#hacktheplanet
Soft Rains Day.
"Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of
Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."
RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
another day working at the staff cafeteria at NERV. everyone is gossiping about how downstairs some guy was trying to get his son to fuck his motherwifedaughter or whatever. all i know is that tomorrow is lasagna friday and something huge stepped on all the cows in the area so there's no cheese.
11. The issue with modern Star Trek is that it relies on the characters being moved by friendship and found family rather than duty to something bigger than themselves.
It's not a real TV (it's trifold with a printed image stuck on it, and the Gamecube has an orange sticker placed to make it look like it's turned on), but the IMAGE is real and those kids really did manage to sneak all this onto the ride.
Nowadays you'd be convinced it's AI, so god bless 90s teens.