Random Thoughts

A few days back, I hacked up a little minor mode for Emacs to use an LLM for spell checking.

That’s what I say, jokingly, every time I discover that English doesn’t have that particular word I’m looking for to distinguish between two natural concepts.

The other week I made a calendrical display for the eink thing I have.

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past week.

Like many nerds, I feel so embarrassed whenever I see that I’ve misspelled something.

The Greige Spectrum.

About a month ago I discovered that the scripts that classify pages as either “text” or “comics” on kwakk.info‘s section for “text pages from comics” (*phew*) didn’t like pages like the above.

I’m continuing to root through the hoard of Commodore 64 diskette images from the 80s I rediscovered the other day, and I found that the diskettes contained a large number of files called things like DDLARS3.

I’ve been vaguely reading the Bubbles RSS feed for the past month or so.

But surely they can’t be more than forty years?

tl;dr: I found a trove of C64 disk images, so I put them on the web.

Extremely observant readers of this blog may have noticed a preponderance of posts about ancient, random stuff over the past few months — and the reason is the above.

I think this is probably the last post in this series of blog posts resulting from me digging through boxes and boxes in the attic (and other cupboards and drawers), looking for things to get rid of.

Music I’ve bought in August.

OK, I haven’t had a day of comics dazing in too long a time, and the comics are starting to pile up, so let’s get to it.

I’ve been tidying up various cupboards, drawers and boxes, and look what I found?

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past couple weeks.

I found more stuff in the attic — this time around some comics catalogues from the 90s (and the year 2000).

I found this in a box in the cellar, so unfortunately it’s absorbed some moist cellar air over the years.

I found more stuff in a drawer!

I found these in a drawer full of “misc”.

A couple months ago I bought a Reterminal E1004 epaper display which I was going to use to display (in my living room) the temperature and stuff… but then it turned out that the update cycle is so absolutely horrendous that it’s not something you can have…

Look what I found!

Computers have always been hard.

A week ago (or so) I debugged the kitchen clock which is doing this: I tried swapping out everything else except the screen itself, but no dice.

I wonder how this happened — it’s a cheque from CD Universe from 2003 that I found while rooting through some old boxes.

Hey!

By Sue Coe (151x230mm) This is a promotional accordion pamphlet for X by Sue Coe.

By Gary Panter (178x128mm) The “Punk Comix” blog series ended half a decade ago, but I found a couple of items while rooting around in the attic today, so I though I might as well just post them.

I’m still rooting through old boxes and I found this.

I was rooting around in some mystery boxes from the attic and I happened upon this.

To compare, here are the least viewed ones: In conclusion:

I fired up the machinery to snarf more comics to find more text pages (letters pages, editorials, hype pages etc) for kwakk.info.

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past fortnight… Mostly French(ish) comics, eh?