Phil Nelson

@philnelson.bsky.social

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The co-host with the co-most. Your +1 and only. I do computer vision, electronics, old gear and vintage media. Founder RetroStrange.com & SetSideB.com biz: hello@extrafuture.com SF, CA

a bag of Lay’s thinly sliced taro chips with lime
Ellen Ring @JaneOst_ Al can never replace real writers, but it can replace JK Rowling. quoted tweet: duncan b @dunksdeux - 8h ChatGPT Prompt: come up with a name for a guy who is jewish but also chinese ChatGPT answer: A possible name for a person who is Jewish and Chinese could be "David Wongstein."
A man’s left hand with fingers extended, showing fresh neon green nail polish
a pop mart keychain, it is a cat’s head
Ending screen for Metroid Zero Mission: CLEAR TIME 4:23:27 YOUR RATE FOR COLLECTING ITEMS IS 54 See you next mission!
A badly corroded battery leaking acid
A close up of a fresh loaf of sourdough sliced open and showing the interior texture
a man in a mexico world cup shirt
A small kiosk screen with a Windows error message and overlay “Activate Windows”
A man’s left hand with clipped short nails which are painted a glossy white
Herb Alpert playing his horn on stage with a full band, June 16 2026 at the SF Symphony hall
A wall with a hole in it and an arrow pointing down that says “Touch the Future. Grab The Luck.”
Disk scan message reading "166656 unreadable sectors found (999999+ more anticipated)"
a disassembled external hard drive with the bare drive plugged into a recovery/cloning device
Promotional photo of a Godzilla-themed guitar pedal
Godzilla w/ eggs
LaserDisc sleeve for Strange Days (1995)
a foam finger of a hand making the “kpop heart” in front of a baseball field background (view from the bleachers)
A man in a lucha mask singing into a microphone against a bright white sky with a wrestling ring in the background
Photo of a monitor displaying a 4:3 video, with a text overlay in the top left showing metadata about the video stream in a green 90s cyberpunk typeface
Top-down photo of a sourdough starter in a weck jar with the lid off. The surface has tiny bubbles all over
An open LaserDisc player successfully switching to side b
screenshot of text: secondbeatsongs somehow instead of saying "as a treat" I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days. and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale. I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me
A man in a hot pink suit and light blue & pink lucha mask playing saxophone and singing
Photo of a small packet labeled LaserParts with a grid pattern printed all over the packet
180 gram remaster of The Smashing Pumpkins album Adore.
Dumb racist Kid Rock
The Clash album Super Black Market Clash on MiniDisc with a Sony MZ-E620 player and earbuds
a loaf of sourdough bread with the end cut off to show the crumb
A cheap Dell laptop from 2018 with several stickers on it: A giant raccoon throwing up the horns, Python foundation, EFF and ohmyzsh
(An aside — In their official docs, Apple refers to the menu bar always in lowercase, because it's just a menu bar. The 'desktop' is the same way. This is interesting, because we live in an era where everything is a branded product whose name is a proper noun- see the Dock- and we are not allowed to merely use things, we are forced to experience using them and you legally can't 'experience' a regular 'ol noun. Everybody knows it's gotta be a proper noun in order to be experienced. The Las Vegas Demon Orb Experience. The Microsoft Windows Desktop Experience. The ESPN Experience Brought To You By Sports Gambling. The 6th Street Hostel Bathroom Experience. But our friends "menu bar" and "desktop" are just two things, average, normal, unobtrusive. This says something about how the people who created these things thought about them.)
A plant pot with a mint plant growing in it, tiny buds, and a mushroom-shaped watering spike
Power outage map showing most of San Francisco’s west and north sides out of power, and much of downtown
A 2026 Hobonichi Weeks (Mother 2 edition) with the activity insert and the 2 Mr Saturn page markers
photo of a 2026 Hobonichi Techo Weeks, Monday Start, Earthbound edition, with a small black pen next to it, against a woodgrain table top
A terminal window showing the output of btop, with all cores maxed out and 10 gifsicle processes running
a stubby pencil with 3D printed ferrule and an eraser
an oh my zsh tshirt
A photo of downtown San Francisco taken from near Golden Gate Bridge. Palace of Fine Arts dome in the fore, Salesforce tower looms in the back.
A red Nintendo San Francisco t-shirt
Screenshot of Podcasts app in iPhone 26 OS: “Browse is Now Called New Discover the best of what's new and what's popular in podcasting.”