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Too bad we never got to see Xon… 😂 The scriptwriter for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is Harold Livingston, who wrote the screenplay from a story by Alan Dean Foster, based on Gene Roddenberry’s original Star Trek television series concept and characters.

My son and daughter anytime they want something

My son and I are reading John Adams by David McCullough. When we come across words we don’t know we look em up and I just loved this image of Madeira (a Portuguese wine) something that Adams apparently loved. -p.18

When I tell people I’m a prepper, this is what I mean… I’m prepared!

the Xbox 360’s CPU, called Xenon, is a custom triple-core 64-bit PowerPC-based design developed by IBM. This architecture was derived from IBM’s PowerPC 970, & heavily customized for the Xbox 360.

Such a cool episode

Eight and nine (8,9) are co-prime, though both are composite.

Keyboards have come along way since the 80s, but some keys & styling I miss 🥺

When I was growing up my parents used to say I had a death wish… but I did NOT in fact have this card:

Good music + #retro magazines 😎 https://blossom.primal.net/16134dca7f155c1ae52bb49110325daf629fe9e7bddf3ec0c4ddc2d98f1d365a.mov

Me, any time I try to cook with an oven: https://blossom.primal.net/50ca70becde37a19ba70901ff23acdf1c8ffe19df14f974ca6fb4b5f8fc57cd9.mov

Isaac Asimov wrote so many sci-fi + books https://blossom.primal.net/20a579a5dfc38b96116821aa708c0f8184efb368798af2b2e2a43293c4ac7bab.mp4

Byte Magazine, Dec 1991. #goals

Oh fun! Microsoft… in the year 2025, Sept… has open-sourced its 6502 BASIC interpreter from 1976. This version of BASIC was adapted for the MOS 6502 CPU that powered Apple II, Commodore PET, VIC-20, +. The released asm (version 1.1) consists of nearly 7,000 lines and includes features such as floating-point arithmetic, string handling, array support, and efficient memory use for 8-bit systems 😎 Microsoft licensed this BASIC to Commodore in 1977 for a flat fee of $25,000 …tech business historians will know a bit 😉 about dat. https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502 @Duncan Cary Palmer #oss #microsoft #retrocomputers 🛠️

We’ve all had that neighbor… #mtg

Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, announced its initial public offering seeking up to $317 million by selling 16.67 million shares at $17-19 per share. $GEMI 🤔

AF_XDP stands for Address Family eXpress Data Path. It provides a mechanism for handling network packets efficiently by bypassing much of the traditional networking stack, 😎 optimizing packet processing for use cases that demand high speed and low latency. #linux #networking <>

“The Texas Linux Fest 2025 will be held at the Commons Conference Center located at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at the University of Texas Austin. The address for the venue is 2901 Read Granberry Trail, Austin, TX 78758. This event site, the Commons Conference Center, is part of the UT Austin campus. dates October 3-4, 2025.”

Watching Clemson v. LSU with my son. Tigers vs Tigers is such a cool matchup.

This was fun to learn, that in Star Trek, NCC stands for “Naval Construction Contract.” This designation is used for commissioned starships in Starfleet, such as the USS Enterprise with registry number NCC-1701. Nx is for experimental or prototype ships. https://blossom.primal.net/4909876e10740d0688848f69d8f40952d3e9a2fd41a85030cc5bac7d98d56911.mp4