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NanoRaptor, to random
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Oh goodness, yes.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor when I was a kid, it took me way to long staring at these and magic eye pictures before I realised I don’t have stereoscopic vision. At one point I thought everyone was playing a trick on me!

NanoRaptor, to random
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What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor for me there’s really only one, and it’s more of a formula: 2^n

NanoRaptor, to random
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ADHD medication week 3? Still titrating dosing. It's working well.

I've really let a few personal hobbies lapse - as in they're still sitting where they were 3 weeks ago. I think they're things I did less because I liked them, and more because they were some of the few things I could really deep-dive into and manufacture focus. That's probably still developing though.

Other aspects of the same thing I'm hammering into like mad. Is it too late to move from print/art into palaeontology?

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I didn’t think it was that hard to get through all three Star Wars movies, although my ADHD seems a lot less extreme than yours.

NanoRaptor, to random
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20,000 followers! I would like to thank everyone for helping make this dream come true, I've wanted 20,000 followers on mastodon since I was six years old.

You're all gems.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor wait, the events shown in the documentary series Back to the Future occurred in 1985, so does that mean that Doc Brown didn’t really slip on the wet porcelain of his toilet while trying to hang a clock, banging his head and waking up with the idea for the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible? Or did he simply invent it independently of 6 year-old you?

NanoRaptor, to random
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Go check your backups.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor what mean backups?

NanoRaptor, to random
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That's a win for team bears.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor you’re not supposed to talk about the wheel of cheese incident! I bet it was the husband who blabbed.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Observations, medication day #5. Something kicked into high gear and I am awestruck again. What is this amazingness. Control over hyperfocus; control starting, stopping, and moving to whatever needs it.

I'm back to having no words.

I still tend to babble irl, I chatterbox constantly at to and with coworkers.

(If you mix equal parts ryan reynolds and she-hulk together and pour out a slightly less clever git you'd have me.)

Kind of surprised that hasn't stopped but I'm OK with that.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor Vicious VOIDbun MURders Innocent NOTEpad Page! Carnage warning: young children and the weak of constitution should avert their gaze.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Macintosh PowerBook G3 with PowerPod 3

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor and of course it didn’t fit in your laptop bag, but Apple was only too happy to sell you their special PowerPod 3 bag to go with it!

NanoRaptor, to random
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You get to make one change to any single genus of animal that’s immediately applied to all of its members worldwide.

What do you change for maximum chaos?

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor all humans gain actual empathy.

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I’m doing science

An Apple IIe claiming to be a Mac Plus

UpLateGeek,
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@ActionRetro up dawg, I herd u like Apples, so I put a Apple in your Apple so u can Mac while u Mac!

NanoRaptor, to random
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It appears I have radiation burns.

I spent an hour and a half with unsatisfactory shielding just minutes away from a G2V class fusion reactor.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I did propose a solution that would simultaneously eliminate the need for such shielding and any other electricity generators, but the government balked at my estimated price tag of several hundred trillion dollars for the Dyson sphere. Apparently they don’t like to consider capex payback on the scale of millennia. Also the whole blotting out the entire sky thing wasn’t exactly popular.

NanoRaptor, to random
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A reminder to remove the batteries from your old retro gear or next time you open the box all you may find is pain.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor the battery acid must flow!

NanoRaptor, to random
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Vanillabean prefers the late PowerPC look in graphite. He is very flat, but actually pretty happy.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I’ve never seen a flatter bun!

NanoRaptor, (edited ) to random
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Cleaning under my desk today I find a dried up musk stick.

Did I

a) jam it in my mouth without thinking, momentarily disgust myself, then shrug and enjoy it?

b) discard it with all the other bits of under-desk Stuff.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor there was a tradition on the OCAU forums where polls always had to have a candy option, but since this is a poll about candy (arguably anyway), I guess it would seem redundant to have a candy option.

NanoRaptor, to random
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1:30am. Woke from a dream where my job was to catalogue old Macs’ Linnaean names. An extra tall 68040 tower with so many drives was Quadra imperator. I wanted to find the little Q605’s name but got lost in a paper describing something as Tritrinitron osmolskae.

Seriously, the inside of my head…

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I had a similar dream last night … well, phonetically similar anyway, I dreamed I was back in my high school job at Maccas, but every burger I made was different to the regular menu. It was a nightmare. A delicious nightmare. I awoke very hungry.

NanoRaptor, to random
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You travel a thousand years into the future to find people there know of you by name, you are a legend known by almost all.

What would be the basis for your fame?

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor it’s right there in the name. Sleep deprivation due to working on your hobbies has permeated all cultures, despite the fact that they know it has terrible negative effects, but they cannot help themselves. Of course, once they find out who I am, I get lynched and the correct timeline is restored.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Which way do floppy drives spin in the southern hemisphere?

UpLateGeek,
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@ActionRetro @NanoRaptor pay no attention to this trouble-stirrer. Obviously they spin in the opposite direction to the northern hemisphere, that’s why we have to insert disks upside down. It just happens that we’re also upside down, so it seems perfectly normal to us.

NanoRaptor, to random
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PowerBook 540c.

If I had to name a Best Mac Of All Time, this would be it most days.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I would’ve killed to have one of these to take to school, even in 1995 or 1996! The best my parents could afford was a second hand 486 with a dual scan colour LCD, and that was even in 1998 or 1999. Better than nothing, but I was forever losing the cursor because I refused to turn on pointer trails.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Combining Centre Positive and Centre Negative would solve the problem of incorrect connections.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor great, so when you inevitably plug the negative plug into the positive(s) socket and vice-versa, not only will you be shorting the 5V & 12V power rails, but you’ll also be sending at least +5V to the negative rail, which would probably blow something up anyway (unless they’ve got a polarity protection circuit)

NanoRaptor, to random
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vanillabean, small bun with large head.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor ! Better be careful, such a large head on such a small bun could mean it’s very powerful.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor here’s hoping (hopping?) he grows quickly, and his power diminishes accordingly, before he fully understands how to wield such power.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Sticker idea.

A photo of a pack of Smoeltjes speculaasjes on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.
A photo of a can of IRN BRU on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.
A photo of a family pack of Tim Tams chocolate biscuits on a white background, proudly displaying a NON TOXIC! starburst sticker.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor Now made from edible food!

NanoRaptor, to random
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I have a corner of my house that seems to have standing waves from the highway half a block away. If I have no sounds in the house (fridge downcycled, no fans or aircon on, no music) I can't normally hear it, but if I put my head near the floor in one particular corner there's a pulsing sound.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor I’ve got the same thing, except it’s my whole apartment. It’s such a deep rumble, I can even hear it through earplugs. I have so sleep with earplugs because of the highway noise, so it’s inescapable, but I’m mostly used to it now.

NanoRaptor, to random
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The Powder Macintosh was the ultimate expression.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor You can’t tell because the room it’s in is an entirely featureless pure white with no obvious source of illumination, but Powder Macintosh is actually sitting on top of a mirror.

NanoRaptor, to random
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NeXTstation mini.

UpLateGeek,
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@NanoRaptor Dear Tim Apple,
RE: my previous letter about bringing back the black option for the Mac mini, I would also settle for a NeXTstation mini in lieu. Either original hardware or modern internals are acceptable, so long as the exterior is identical to the example attached.
Yours in retro,
UpLateGeek

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