Matthew Sparby

@cloudscout.com

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VintageComputing/RetroComputing enthusiast. Foster parent. Dog rescuer. Lived in California, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin & Bengaluru. Now back in Minnesota. He/Him/Mr. Sparby if you're nasty. ATDT Shirts: http://spar.by/atdt https://youtube.com/cloudscout

Bucket list item checked off the list. Visited the ancestral homeland.
CPT 9000 computer
Old picture of a computer sitting on a desk with a CRT monitor, keyboard, CD-ROM drive, and a Stereo receiver.
CPT Phoenix Jr word processing computer
A Knorr beef bouillon package edited to say XOR Beef Boolean.
Screenshot from the game Forza Horizon 6 showing a Ford F150 Raptor embedded in a building.
Apple Newton 4MB Flash Storage Card
A brown and white dog laying on a dog bed.
Modern PC in a case that resembles a Commodore 64
Close up of a NEC PC-8300 portable computer with a label taped to it that says Temp and sky reading every 1/2 hr press C Comment - C Quit - 0 Weather - W
Two dogs, each about 48 pounds. One is beige, the other is darker brown with what resembles 1980s frosted tips.
Homer Simpson looking at Bart. There is text that says, “Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.”
A Commodore VIC 20 connected to a modern TV with three guys sitting around it playing Cheese and Onion.
Young stone fruit tree freshly planted.
Black and white picture of a man with thick framed glasses leaning against a piano
Elmer Fudd marching through the woods filled with signs that say Rabbit Season
Dead crabapple tree
The character Johnny from the movie Airplane standing in front of reporters. An annual tradition.
Two chefs working the grill at Khan’s Mongolian Barbeque.
Screenshot from the Homestar River “Cool Things” toon showing the band Cool Tapes consisting of Strong Mad, The Cheat, and Marzipan.
Badly matted black labradoodle in a stainless steel shelter kennel.
A stack of Minidiscs next to a Sharp MD-MT15 Minidisc Recorder. A Commodore US*8 calculator can be seen in the background.
Vintage Magnavox “Phantom” remote control.
Black and white dog laying on a dog bed holding an empty a stainless steel dog bowl in his mouth.
Two black dogs sitting in a car. One is in the backseat. The other is sitting in the driver’s seat.
Two logos. On the top is the logo for Tensorflow, an AI software library. On the bottom is the logo for Fleet Farm, a chain of retail stores. Both use similar stylized orange letters.
Who are you? The spirit of Cesar Chavez. Why do you look like Cesar Romero? Because you don't know what Cesar Chavez looks like.
Two pictures of the character Darrin Stephens from Bewitched. On the left is Dick York with text that says, “DLSS 5 OFF” and on the right is Dick Sargent with text that says, “DLSS 5 ON”
Two images of the character Ernest LeClerc from the TV series Allo Allo. On the left the character is played by Derek Royle and there’s text that says, “DLSS 5 OFF”. On the right the character is played by Robin Parkinson and there is text that says, “DLSS 5 ON”
Sony Walkman WM-GX822 next to the case for The Hunt for Red October soundtrack cassette.
16 year old white Morkie dog wearing a pink sweater and a pink bow.
Screenshot of this weekend’s weather forecast in Minneapolis predicting 12 inches of snow.
Apple Macintosh Plus with a Radius Full Page Monitor.
Sony WM-FX281 Walkman held in a hand.
The Fletch movie soundtrack CD sitting next to a Sony D-T24 Discman.
Hackers soundtrack CD next to a vintage Sony Discman
Deep Forest CD sitting next to a vintage Sony Discman
Suzanne Vega’s CD “99.9F°” next to a Sony D-T24 Discman
Brent Spiner’s CD “Ol’ Yellow Eyes is Back” sitting next to a vintage Sony Discman.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek the Next Generation.
Image from the movie Electric Dreams showing the character Miles sitting in front of the computer naked Edgar.
3D printer making a comb.
Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer sitting on a wood floor.
Instructions on a bag of tater tots where the illustrations show French fries on a pan instead of tater tots.
Cover of February 1984 issue of Byte Magazine showing the original 128k Macintosh.
Black Benchy
A red SUV runs me off the road.
A grey toilet tank flapper which bears a striking resemblance to a ship from Star Trek
The Bambu Lab logo.
Two large, black Bernedoodle dogs lying on a brown sofa.
Creality Ender 3 V2 3D printer
Bambu Lab H2D 3D printer sitting on a desk.
Image from the game Oregon Trail showing a tombstone with text that reads: Here lies 2025 Pepperony and chease The misspellings are from the most commonly bootlegged copy of the game which most likely references a a Tombstone Pizza commercial from the 1980s.
Bambu Lab H2D 3D printer sitting on my dining room table.
A picture of me next to Stewart Cheifet.
Sony D-T24 Discman portable CD player sitting on the armrest of a blue chair.
Pot holders hanging from a peg on a store rack. The text on them reads, "Stay awhile".
A very dirty Elenco XK-300 microprocessor trainer.
Steve Buscemi wearing a backwards baseball cap, a hoodie, and a t-shirt that says, "MUSIC-BAND". He's also holding a skateboard. The text says, "How do you do, fellow kids?"
Microsoft Zune HD held in my hand. Display shows it is tuned to KFAI 90.3 FM HD1.