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docpop, 15 days ago to random

Found a copy of David Thornburg's "Coloring Series I: Geometric Designs" on Capp St. It starts off with essays on human-computer interfaces, but most of the book is examples of computer generated art (circa 1983).
Read it online here https://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/KoalaWare_Coloring_Series_I.pdf

A page from "Geometric designs" that shows a series of five pointed stars. There is a star inside of each star and the art is in a pixelated format.
Another page from the book. This one shows a repeating pattern that consists of vertical rows of triangles that intersect with each other. The art is pixelated.
A simple spiralgraph printed in the book. The lines are thin and pixelated.

knf100, 2 months ago to random

knf100, 3 months ago to random

Bird site owner responded to something I posted and now it has half a million views.

knf100, 3 months ago to random

My friend in San Jose just sent me a message. I think maybe @ai6yr can help. Basically she just got home and there’s cops down the street and she’s really worried about violence in the neighborhood. But I don’t know a resource to find out what they’re doing.

knf100, 4 months ago to random

I’ve been having this achey pain in my elbow. When I stretch my arm out, it hurts a lot.

skinnylatte, 4 months ago to SanFrancisco

Some things I saw in downtown San Francisco today:

• an upcoming ‘bespoke AI nutrition’ cafe
• a giant candy store called ‘It’s Sugar’
• many Jehovah’s Witnesses and Falungong cultists
• a VR game experience shop offering a Squid Game VR experience
• bunch of ‘heart’ sculptures because of the song ‘I left my heart in San Francisco’
• many tourists crowding into a cable car
• more dogs than children, as is the norm

Truly the greatest hits of San Francisco

#SanFrancisco

sysop408, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to twitter

Well, it looks like Elmo broke his Birdchan toy again. No posts load. None. No feed, no user timelines, no lists, no search... nothing.

It's quite nice really.

#TwitterDown #Twitter

knf100, 5 months ago to random

Someone QTd @foone playing Doom on a home pregnancy test today and that was such a nice thing to see… so many feels.

historyofpunkrock, 6 months ago to history

Youth culture has been and hopefully will always remain very diverse

A punk, a "rude boy" and an anti-fascist skinhead hang out together in England, circa 1980

#punks #rudeboy #skinhead #youthculture #history #punkrockhistory

futurebird, 6 months ago to random

Cone ants not blocking water feeder with sand challenge!

So far they have failed failed failed failed failed.

Three Hundred Tiny Failures.

They hate moisture. They cover it with sand. This makes most feeder designs ... ooze more moisture, they bring more sand... then the feeder is empty, ants have no water: a crisis. I've tried lecturing them, showing them educational films... but mostly NINE different feeder designs. they defeat them all.

The girls must have water. I must keep designing.

ai6yr, 7 months ago to LosAngeles

Wow, they're going to shut down the 110 freeway on Sunday for a pedestrian/cycling event. #LosAngeles #Pasadena #BikeTooter #cycling #freeways #LA https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/arroyofest-to-shut-down-the-110-freeway-once-again-for-pedestrians-and-cyclists

fraser, 7 months ago to random

In 2017, astronomers detected the gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars for the first time: a kilonova. Enormous amounts of heavy metals were detected in the light from the explosion, and astronomers continued to watch the expanding debris cloud. Researchers have created a new simulation that recreates the merger, second by second, as it happened, giving insights into all the high-energy mayhem and heavy elements formation in the catastrophic event.

https://www.gsi.de/en/start/news/details?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=5665&cHash=a2a0e2c53404509e7b565de36b6625a6

archeaids, 7 months ago to Geology

Foreset bedding consist of diagonal lenses (strata), usually clay, marking the former location & migration of a stream/river. The bottom always points to the direction of the channel migration. Here, the far right side shows normal bedding cut into by the stream margin. #geology

drahardja, 7 months ago to random

This is so cool! The engineers at MIT discovered that cement and carbon black (paracrystalline carbon) can be mixed to create a supercapacitor that still behaves like cement. That means you can build cement structures that store energy. They estimate that 45 m³ of this material is enough to store 10 kWh (about a day’s worth of energy for a home).

“New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-breakthrough-in-energy-storage-mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-out-of-ancient-materials/

enobacon, 7 months ago to portland

This route is a bit longer than #BarburBlvd but the flat grade is pretty easy #pdxBikes #Portland to #Tigard

Lizbon, 7 months ago to random

Me: I will turn off the TV (read: close the laptop), get in bed & read.
<gets in bed & scrolls on phone>
Me: no, not like that

enobacon, 7 months ago to random

I just need the home address of every bad driver. Is that so much to ask?

jef, 7 months ago to random

@enobacon The REI Gen e-bikes are now marked discontinued. No new models yet.

enobacon, 8 months ago to random

the seat tube angle on this bike is so f'd it basically fits people who are 5'4" tall only 😞

Watch somebody come out with a mod that makes the rear rack into a bench seat. Also the class-action suit for over-the-bars crashes.

https://www.rei.com/product/190640/co-op-cycles-generation-e12-electric-bike