Mark

@cdi.bsky.social

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A hands-on visionary who respects the sea

A screenshot of an interview that reads: “Pat Lawlor (pinball designer, Williams Bally): A pinball machine is a ball bearing rolling around on a piece of wood. You get three minutes to get their attention. They put their money in, and you give them three minutes, and in that amount of time, you have to get them to understand this thing could be a lot more fun if you just put more money in it. That's a lot easier for me to say than it is to do. And the people at Williams were geniuses at doing it.“
The cover of The IIIrd World War for the Mega-CD. It features caricatures of Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein smiling and shaking hands.
A shot of my workbench with an old PC playing the Space Quest 3 intro with the Roland MT-32
A picture of a file transfer over Kermit from a DOS PC
DOS 6.22 HD formatting screen
Before, with rust
The motherboard, which I think is from Pine Technologies.
A Duracom “Desksaver”. No idea if this is a 386 or 486.
A view through our back door window of a squirrel eating one of my strawberries
A boxed 4K edition of the film BMX Bandits
A video game wizard asks the user to spell "baby." The wizard looks hollowed out, haunted.
A video segment advertising the mid 80s computer game Break Beat.
An adorable cartoon image of a modem at work, from an Apple IIGS manual.
A screenshot from the search screen on my iPhone that’s says “good morning” and then lists two items: the current weather in Portland, and the Wikipedia page for “list of wonderswan games”
Our cat Meatloaf laying on a Space Shuttle pinball table I was trying to play.
A VHS copy of Black Belt Karate: I. The box has a sticker that reads “DISCARDED: Spartanburg Public Libraries”
Four hypnosis VHS tapes from Valley of the Sun Video: Incredible Self-Confidence, Past-Life Regression, Ultimate Relaxation, and Develop Psychic Ability Now
A boxed copy of Infocom’s game Suspended
Mr. Wiseau standing inside a three-walled plexiglass box with no top, sandwiched against a wall. A line of fans are handing him things through the open top of the box for him to sign. He’s wearing gloves and sunglasses.
A scene from Dawn of the Dead
Two guys from the film Demon Wind who bear a passing resemblance to Kevin Bacon and James Dean.
A shot of some VHS tapes from Paladin Press, who made a ton of very goofy self defense videos in the 90s and 00s
The Full Moon Video Frightbox Vol II box set, from Umbrella
An Apple IIGS on a desk
Our cat Franny laying on a pillow. She looks vaguely morose.
A shot of a beige Unisite unit, used to read/write various memory and logic devices before most the people reading this existed. It pans over to show text version of the hex contents being streamed to a file on a modern Mac.
Me, probably drunk, standing in the rain next to some trash cans.
A guy, whose name I forget, ollieing over a toilet while I stand in the background
A screenshot of the linked video that reads: "This program contains strong, racially oriented language and imagery. Viewer discretion is advised.
Our cat Franny, staring at me from a chair across my office
A weird photo of a CRT during a video transition in a VHS copy of Gary Coleman’s For Safety’s Sake