Kami Bee

@kami.land

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👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Aloof wife. I make stories. I also like robots, retro technology, plants, music, and various crafts. 📄 https://kami.land 💸 https://ko-fi.com/kamibee/

A Zuru Pets Alive 'Swimming Axolotl' which is as you would expect an adorable pink plastic axolotl in packaging that proclaims, 'I swim like a real axolotl!' I have never been close enough to either a real axolotl or the robot version to pass judgment, but I'm sure you're doing great, sweetie.
A stack of four very fluffy golden pancakes on a plate. The top one is smaller than the rest, kinda cute-sized.
An Acorn RiscPC 600 with an Acorn monitor sitting on top of it, a grey checked tea towel diplomatically separating them. A keyboard is stashed to one side of the machine. The monitor is rather strikingly yellowed when compared to the machine itself.
Part of a Dell computer case which is a couple shades of grey plastic on the outside but has this amazing metal hinge mechanism on the inside allowing you to open the case in a diagonal-feeling manner and gaze into the contents.
A screenshot of an APICO game focusing on a couple of open crafting dialogs and a view of the contents of a storage box.
A somewhat soggy-looking grey toilet called, shockingly, 'Grey Toilet'. Apparently it is (very rare).
Some Linux terminal error output reading: new_timer.hours = timer.data['hours'] KeyError: 'hours'
Clip from Office Space depicting character Michael Bolton, sitting at a computer from a much nicer era in technology that is nonetheless in the context of the movie being used to make people's lives shittier in much the same manner as our modern generative AI, retorting, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"
A screenshot of an image from a Humble Bundle email announcing the 'Build & Launch AI Apps Bundle' which apparently, according to the little panels representing different courses in the bundle, is about 'AI PYTHON AI AI AI'.
A few rows of knitting on a thin bamboo needle lying on the wooden slats of a bench. The yarn is green and a slightly tangled clump of it sits next to the knitted bit.
A squarish Pygame window with the title 'I Can Do It!' Inside the window is a mostly featureless white expanse with one very bad pixel art trash can and four yellow abominations that you would not realise are pixel art banana peels without my telling you. To the left, some text reads 'Completed: 0/40'.
A squarish Pygame window with the title 'I Can Do It!' Inside the window is a mostly featureless white expanse with one red square with a letter t inside of it and another black-edged white square. The word 'no' is visible at the top centre of the window and to the left, some smaller text reads 'Completed: 0/40'.
A squarish Pygame window titled 'I Can Do It!' Inside, the window is crowded with red squares containing the letters t, h, and e to the point where it just looks like one fragmented mass. One white square stands bewildered in the mass while the text tethhttttthheehhe stretches across the top and off the window. The overall effect is incredibly threatening.
A squarish Pygame window with the title 'I Can Do It!' Inside the window is a mostly featureless white expanse with one red-edged square and another slightly larger black-edged square. A score indicator at the top left of the screen indicates we currently have a score of 7: for doing what might be anyone's guess.
A copy of the first edition of 'Kakapo- Rescued From The Brink Of Extinction' by Alison Ballance. A cute kākāpō peers out of the cover (they're all cute).
A terribly lit photo of the box for SimCity 2000. This box has shiny gold stickers indicating it is a version for Acorn machines.
Part of the cover of The Digital Ape by Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson. The book is lucid green with a weird hand-with-gear-at-wrist illustration meant to look like a stylised person and the subtitle 'how to live (in peace) with smart machines'.
A screenshot of a cell from my writing tracking spreadsheet, showing the number 2510 with a green background that does not appear to be present in cells around.
My Encarta 96 Encyclopedia CD sitting in the CD tray seconds from disaster.
An IBM CRT monitor displaying the Aptiva Guide software. There are menu options for lessons on computers with lovely animated buttons.
A partial screenshot of a fairly plain Ren'py game window showing a character named Shopkeeper saying, "You have no money!"
A red plastic fork and a bread knife laid out on a bench so that it looks like the knife is chasing the fork. The effect is enhanced by an angry emoji on the knife and the scream emoji on the fork.
Two Bluesky posts with identification removed to protect the guilty. The context is their feelings on writing code. Post 1: It's a tool and always has been and I'm pretty sure 95% of computer people would have agreed with that sentiment before all of this LLM nonsense provided a status threat. Post 2: I think about 95% still do. That 5% has always been both a pain in the ass and, sometimes (very much not always) a valuable asset. Me: I hate writing code. I always have. I like *having written* code. That part's awesome. Writing code stinks and sucks, let me word at it.
Some chaotic small assortment of initial building in SimCity 2000 with a robot monster bearing down on it.
An Acorn CRT monitor displaying the SimCity 2000 intro screen.
A RiscPC 600 sitting on a white bench, a tea towel on top of it and a keyboard on top of that.
Part of a word processor window reading \] NJJHJ JPG==G[[[[[[G.
Some Ren'Py code reading: scene bg cutlery n "'EAT THE BUS! EAT THE BUS!'"
A Micro System 1 kit computer in red acrylic. The lower case is wooden, the big beautiful screen shows a green field with a sign, all in a very charming ANSI graphical style.
A row of celery stalks leaves and all sitting in jars of coloured water. The celery in red water is notably red-tinged.
A hand-drawn series of fictional roads with silly names like 'This', 'How,' and 'Flip' that are arranged to make a variety of angles: acute, right enough, obtuse, and even one reflex angle that was kind of a mistake but a fortuitous one in the end! How Street ends abruptly for no reason, school lore I guess, and This Street is a cul-de-sac but because I was totally wasted last night I accidentally made it look like a roundabout with a little centre island. OH WELL.
Two slightly grubby white metal pots in a grubby white stand lit by a nearby window. Each contains a plastic pot with a seedling in it.
The cover of 'Body + Soul' magazine with the headline 'INSIDE THE RISE OF OPEN MARRIAGE - Real couples reveal the risk and rewards, plus what experts really think'. A very stylish trio huddle together possessively in a way that is rather reminiscent at least to me of the paranormal romance of my youth.
A screenshot of my skeeting dialog with 'hgybujh' entered into it. Poetry, obviously.
An electronic Dymo label printer screen, reading 'SOLDER WIRE'.
My hand with a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Of Sky cart cradled lovingly within.
Line art of the Pokémon Ditto. They have a somewhat enigmatic faint smile and stand taller than Ditto usually do, one blobby 'arm' raised.
A Windows 98 printer test page with a colour Windows logo. The printer is identified as a HP DeskJet 690C. The page also lists resources used by the printer. The paper is in good condition but slightly creased, the text crisp but the ink smudged slightly in one spot on the page.
A chaotic scattering of seed beads across a bench, mostly green with some blue, brown, yellow, and black mixed in. A resistor is also inexplicably present.
A breadboard with power connectors covered in an absolute nightmare of wires obscuring most of the components present except for a little display made up of a grid of LEDs. A PICkit 2 is plugged into the chaos via a rustic-looking rainbow cable with a lot of hot glue blobbed on the PICkit end.
The brick of what I think is my Flashforge 3D printer power supply, branded in English as being from CHANNEL WELL TECHNOLOGY.
Part of a commercial food potato bag with 'NOT FOR PLANTING' printed on it. Below, a red potato peeps into the frame from the bottom left corner, close enough to blur and with slightly sprouting white eyes that look rather like it has eyes for seeing.
A shelf with assorted jars with different coloured beads stored to the left and a Sylvanian Families squirrel admiring a little garden patch to the right. To her back is a bakery wall and further back a candy cart.
Two apple tree seedlings in a small yellow pot. One is like twice the height of the other and this is really the only way to see they are two separate plants.
A large sponge in packaging that states "Large Sponge - 1 Unit"
A plastic bag containing tiny motors on the left and a plastic bag containing gold and orange cloisonne fish charms on the right.
A terrible photo of a CRT monitor displaying a thing called the 'Splot Machine' which has lots of buttons allowing you to manipulate the components of a three-part writing prompt. The top panel of the displayed prompt: a picture of a snowman. The middle panel: "made a treehouse" The bottom panel: "in your back yard."
Four electronics component drawers on a white bench. One has yellow and orange LEDs in it, one green, one a single clear-cased LED and some plastic bits and the fourth has a bunch of red LEDs and one yellow one I only noticed after taking the photo, whoops. The frame the drawers slide into is slightly visible behind.
A ladybug-type bug sitting on the leaf of a potato plant with a brick wall in the background.
A screenshot from Creative Writer where the blue guy suggests you go to the Idea Workshop to get unstuck on writing.
CRT monitor displaying the startup splash for the Microsoft kids' writing software Creative Writer. It has funky 90s-era cool writing and a weird blue guy.
A faintly visible pencilled manga face on a page also featuring a katakana chart.
An IBM CRT monitor showing the Windows 95 startup splash screen with a little logo indicating this installation also has Microsoft Plus! additions.
A battered copy of 'Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese' by Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku.
A monitor displaying a large IBM logo with Rapid Resume below it and the announcement, 'Rapid Resume is saving your computer's environment'.
An IBM monitor displaying some wacky blue-tinged IBM Aptiva branding with cultural-seeming symbols floating in a random space scene.
The paper sleeves for the Aptiva Diagnostics and Utilities and Product Recovery CD-ROMs, blue and red respectively.
To the left: a somewhat battered green journal alongside a jar of coloured pens with a couple scattered on the bench. To the right: a sealed pack of coloured pens on top of a darker green journal.
A view into a PC case showing a 3D-printed custom adaptor holding a CPU fan in place.
An IBM G50 monitor showing the IBM logo as its attached computer boots up.