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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1270070014482079746 Waterproof Connectors]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1270070014482079746 Waterproof Connectors]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302170837701726209 Old IBM computer controllers, with a tangent into how Williams Tubes Memory worked]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302170837701726209 Old IBM computer controllers, with a tangent into how Williams Tubes Memory worked]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1357479753083547653 Anti-barking devices, mice, and USB drives]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1369062704372084738 Cat carriers & backpacks]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1379249358697160704 TOSLINK for your phone! USB Pottery Wheels! Fiber optic mice!]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1381876137807151104 Anime Bodysuits of horror, mannequins with no eyes, and the Palace of Meat]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1434150049303257092 Android head units/in-car infotainment units are strange, and you must enjoy the special smooth]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440049720001372164 Farm animals require gross and weird machines]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1440128750272712704 Teeth Teeth Teeth Teeth Teeth]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1455022279285370885 Teeth and USB cables and pepe boobs?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1460823899667451916 amongus babies and sex toy suspicion]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461076803498348551 Teethcams and magnets, but not magnetic teeth]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475635575059206144 meme clothes and more meme clothes]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1477015729325023234 keycaps: dogbutt and nft and more, oh my]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1490841392779726848 RFID cows and undefined trousers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1495581169752342528 weird mini-pcie and pcie adapters, and external molex power]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1499140639388168194 ZIPPERFACE, plastic raincoats, and strange chicken devices]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1549433831693774848 Trying to find light-up pushbuttons, I get distracted by exercise devices and the amazing quantum resonance magnetic bioplasm non-linear system full body analyzers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1561406477834731520 Smart doors, bird costumes, and keyboard autoclickers]

==Anthropomorphic Animals (aka Furries)==

*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1338302831950921729 How do catgirls wear headphones, anyway?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1351238614064238593 How do furry animals wear masks? or use phones?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1439627699551539204 Robot Fucking and how do keyboards get designed in a world of hooves?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1443594134237843465 That time I collected my list of fursona jokes and realized this probably isn't a joke]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1425836996602200064 Hey does your fursona have to be a single animal-person? Can it be like, four animals with a hive mind?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1507367968845443074 Bird furries on airplanes, vampires on the moon, the mysterious Horsetaur, and the furry spectrum]

==ADHD==

*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1433825384869416962 ADHD and the "I don't know what time is" logic that causes anxiety]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1435288117590720513 Being a detective about your own life, and why you shouldn't worry if you find ADHD stories relatable]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1391783496570441732 You can't mail Adderall, you just gotta be really good at scheduling when to pick it up and remembering to do that.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1420966843829821452 I either have ADHD or I am living in a haunted house which is playing fruit jokes on me]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1401164075787116544 I'm vague about what I'm doing because I don't want to lose the motivation]


==Biology==
==Biology==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1318207136636096512 The US Presidential Date System, invented in the 4th Year of Trump]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1318207136636096512 The US Presidential Date System, invented in the 4th Year of Trump]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1105181992843337729 Windows 95 doesn't know about George W. Bush and his ideas about Daylight Saving Time]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1105181992843337729 Windows 95 doesn't know about George W. Bush and his ideas about Daylight Saving Time]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1493247698312384514 HEY POPE, REVAMP THE CALENDAR ALREADY]


==The Cold War & Radiation==
==The Cold War & Radiation==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/999729479948816384 Duck and Cover isn't silly propaganda, it's good advice]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/999729479948816384 Duck and Cover isn't silly propaganda, it's good advice]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319716912129949697 Electron Beam Irradiators, Radiation Doesn't ZigZag, Pigs With Nukes, and Keep Your Head Out Of Particle Accelerators]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319716912129949697 Electron Beam Irradiators, Radiation Doesn't ZigZag, Pigs With Nukes, and Keep Your Head Out Of Particle Accelerators]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1328702631364083713 Gender security, nuclear weapon arming/protection, nuclear submarines and the Scud missile]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1407464621154267143 Soviet Ekranoplans: A simple guide to telling them apart]


==Computer Displays==
==Computer Displays==
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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1156392702725902336 How does your computer figure out what monitor you plugged in?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1156392702725902336 How does your computer figure out what monitor you plugged in?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1133807436077314048 Planar graphics and why they were used]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1133807436077314048 Planar graphics and why they were used]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1333528312937803778 Do lights in games use real electricity? Yes, maybe, it depends, no.]


==Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks==
==Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks & Printers==


*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1204080220212322304 The looming security implications of mechanical keyboards]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1204080220212322304 The looming security implications of mechanical keyboards]
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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1163489760687480839 How Mice Work]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1163489760687480839 How Mice Work]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1153789322295779328 How keyboards communicate keypresses to Windows, and why you can't easily get a keyboard with an Emoji Button]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1153789322295779328 How keyboards communicate keypresses to Windows, and why you can't easily get a keyboard with an Emoji Button]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1489285932029206533 Why are printers are so terrible?]


==Computer History==
==Computer History==
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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1259295796245098497 Bubble Memory: The Next Big Thing that Never Was]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1259295796245098497 Bubble Memory: The Next Big Thing that Never Was]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1324057690029477888 HP LaserJet Font Cartridges and Dot Matrix Printers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1324057690029477888 HP LaserJet Font Cartridges and Dot Matrix Printers]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1353713965650432000 Sony's Optical Disc Archive cartridge, and the history of Optical Libraries]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1441485662050418688 I had a dream about infodumping on how PC-DOS and MS-DOS related and why CP/M missed out, and accidentally made it real]


==Computer Programming/Engineering==
==Computer Programming/Engineering==
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*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1263258295575298048 The horrors of hacking and my dad's deathtrap van]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1263258295575298048 The horrors of hacking and my dad's deathtrap van]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1322574159860297728 Bad ideas for networks, like water or bullets instead of wires]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1322574159860297728 Bad ideas for networks, like water or bullets instead of wires]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1374088629224579075 How many crabs do we need to run Doom?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445425424067006466 Computers are Magic. Literal Magic]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1517929234819297282 The time I hacked Github on accident, and more stories of weird test machines]


==Chemical Elements==
==Chemical Elements==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1190340638899724288 Rhodium doesn't cause cancer, it can prevent it! and how that's connected to Bunsen burners]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1190340638899724288 Rhodium doesn't cause cancer, it can prevent it! and how that's connected to Bunsen burners]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1194418854589370369 Dysprosium is why you shouldn't eat a Prius]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1194418854589370369 Dysprosium is why you shouldn't eat a Prius]

==Cryptocurrency/NFTs==

*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1442846073316265984 Cryptocurrency is a bad idea, NFTs are a bad idea, and everyone into them is into them way too hard]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445469546530279425 The Blockchain is built on p2p tech and that annoys me]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1444710237009682432 I am going to steal every single NFT]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1449485124400148482 BDSM, Turing Completeness, and the cost of bad APIs]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1453455073036537861 Tungsten Cubes? Lotteries? Lootboxes? Collusion? What]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1455601328479092739 Web3: The Web but only for Making Money, and why NFTs are so ugly]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1457551389513506825 I'm trying to steal all the NFTs but every time I start coding it makes me too angry to continue]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1457749433844568066 How to scam people with NFTs and how the IRS is going to ruin it: a beginners guide]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1461373276148490247 Someone else stole all the NFTs and made a torrent. Good. But the replyguys do not stop.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1484266161168474113 Do not engage with NFT-avatar people, just block them. Twitter wants you to be mad, so mad.]


==Electronics==
==Electronics==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1074901570687397889 The Oracle Answers A Question]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1074901570687397889 The Oracle Answers A Question]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1184491323056771078 Space Cannibalism, aka In-Situ Resource Extraction (outline)]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1184491323056771078 Space Cannibalism, aka In-Situ Resource Extraction (outline)]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1445753791463129104 The kingdom of base-11]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1511402856355561474 IRS Isekai, or how the tax collectors found a wizard's secret summer home]


==Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)==
==Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1137365714824597504 June 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1137365714824597504 June 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1172959598971514880 September 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1172959598971514880 September 2019]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1512902077910945795 April 2022]


==Floppy Disks==
==Floppy Disks==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1321515938034843649 The phrasing of Oregon Trail memes, and some history of Apple II ports]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1321515938034843649 The phrasing of Oregon Trail memes, and some history of Apple II ports]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1323312481331105792 The characters in Super Mario Bros 2 have alien parasites in their eyes]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1323312481331105792 The characters in Super Mario Bros 2 have alien parasites in their eyes]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372766463556083715 Unisex Duke Nukem 3D Bathrooms, and all the tricks used to make mirrors and lakes work in the Build engine]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1462070773229654016 HTML encoding? and how Foocubi in Nethack work]


==Gender==
==Gender==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1185239940348530689 Why I don't think the US military is fully off floppy disks, why they used them in the first place, and why there's so much weather data from Alaska]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1185239940348530689 Why I don't think the US military is fully off floppy disks, why they used them in the first place, and why there's so much weather data from Alaska]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1196819489209237505 Why I had to virus scan my own files or lose a couple million dollars]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1196819489209237505 Why I had to virus scan my own files or lose a couple million dollars]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1351607066217992193 Working for the government was like trying to solve an endless series of programming challenges]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1011683234810195968 The FBI is probably spying on furries, or Why They Tried To Get Me Fired]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1411743040247631878 The placement of weather stations is a Political Issue and also Printers are bad]


==US History & Politics==
==US History & Politics==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1012086962512015362 Can we launch (no pun intended) a kickstarter for NASA to launch the JWST? Because the funding problems make me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1012086962512015362 Can we launch (no pun intended) a kickstarter for NASA to launch the JWST? Because the funding problems make me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1270777994689167360 The JWST is coded in Javascript running on an iMac and that makes me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1270777994689167360 The JWST is coded in Javascript running on an iMac and that makes me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1343256834925162496 McDonald's JWST machine broke... which makes me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1371494844724613122 Google says you can get a "good telescope" for only 2.5 billion, and that makes me angry.]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1400101582331514899 It got delayed again, and I blame nazis, who make me angry]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1451522159705088002 hey guess what IT GOT DELAYED AGAIN WITH ONLY 58 DAYS GO TO]


==Linguistics==
==Linguistics==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1279893046692216832 How do you find the direction to Mecca? What if you're in space?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1279893046692216832 How do you find the direction to Mecca? What if you're in space?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1339678493295091712 Continuity planning for the post-Rapture world]


==Space Science==
==Space Science==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1065024550310600704 There are floppy disks on the International Space Station: How'd they get there?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1065024550310600704 There are floppy disks on the International Space Station: How'd they get there?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1032285477590593538 How can we get power out of a black hole?]
*[https://twitter.com/foone/status/1032285477590593538 How can we get power out of a black hole?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1494342562630365184 Why is there an astrological symbol for Makemake? and what the heck is dark matter?]


==Science Fiction & Anime==
==Science Fiction & Anime==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1004504262389297152 Mechanical animation of Evangelion]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1004504262389297152 Mechanical animation of Evangelion]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319281030063292424 Nintendo Famicom Disk System copy protection/bootlegs, sex machines, explaining PG&E fires to aliens, and alien socialists quarantining earth for the most dangerous meme of all]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1319281030063292424 Nintendo Famicom Disk System copy protection/bootlegs, sex machines, explaining PG&E fires to aliens, and alien socialists quarantining earth for the most dangerous meme of all]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1340018870749294592 Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Ivanova from Babylon 5 meet up for coffee]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1357385826561232896 Spock's name, and old computers in the far future of Star Trek]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1481657505688158209 When did vampires start being scared of crosses?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1029833904352456704 Is space full of vampires?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1483159483257810945 Has anyone written a Star Trek novel about Worf's Bar Mitzvah?]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1486365187741421569 Dune is a utopia because there's no computers, and how Copyright solves the Fermi Paradox]


==Thrifting==
==Thrifting==
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*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1306335331063492609 How Slip Rings were vital to your VCR, and how helical-scan made VHS tapes small enough to be usable]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1306335331063492609 How Slip Rings were vital to your VCR, and how helical-scan made VHS tapes small enough to be usable]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1070174477332361216 How to morph a character on screen in 1960, without cutting, but it'll only work in black & white]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1070174477332361216 How to morph a character on screen in 1960, without cutting, but it'll only work in black & white]
*[https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1325509072901136384 The marketing of Wonder Woman 1984 & the making of Battlefield Earth]

Latest revision as of 19:30, 21 August 2022

I like to ramble about things on twitter. Sometimes these are interesting long threads, so I'm going to try to collect them here.

Aliexpress/ebay/amazon is full of Weird Junk

Anthropomorphic Animals (aka Furries)

ADHD

Biology

Calendars

The Cold War & Radiation

Computer Displays

Computer Keyboards & Mice & Joysticks & Printers

Computer History

Computer Programming/Engineering

Chemical Elements

Cryptocurrency/NFTs

Electronics

Fiction Writing

Flea Market (Electronics/De Anza)

Floppy Disks

Games

Gender

My Government Job

US History & Politics

The James Webb Ground Device

Linguistics

Magazines

Misc Science

Money

Music

Personal History

Religion

Space Science

Science Fiction & Anime

Thrifting

Video, Film, & Television