@typingmonkey @Vaguery @logista what in tarnation

@thegibson oh wait this is the underground lair

@thegibson this is my daily above ground corpo office

@thegibson @voltur there’s both a ms pac man and a centipede cocktail down there!

@thegibson this is my living room battlestation because I can’t be not computing

@jerry @thegibson That looks like a station for actual battle

All these battlestations make me think I need to invest in an ultrawide monitor

@snowdusk Looks like such a cozy space!

@snowdusk just as it should be :D

Re-watching Brainstorm (1983) after a bunch of years. I forgot how high-tech that movie looked for the 80s. The computing props just look fabulous and the story's aged well, IMO. Also that James Horner soundtrack gives it a real Wrath of Khan feel

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/

Got a notion to follow up tomorrow night with Strange Days (1995) to go further down the cyberpunk brain recording rabbit hole

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/

@robdaemon Oh yeah, me too! I had it lined up with other spooky season movies. The big freaky macguffin is a brain recording made by one of the researchers made as she died, and the protagonist wants to finish playing it back.

@robdaemon Yeah, that part is super freaky. I guess she died just after they were done filming it

@rgegriff you take that back.

@mdhughes no no no no no

@jalefkowit a fursona? In this economy?

Oh yeah, another halloween thing I just remembered:

I had a bluetooth speaker out on the porch with us blaring a playlist of random goth and new wave music, because I got tired of the Monster Mash and Purple People Eater.

When the second group of kids tromped up, "Sex Dwarf" by Soft Cell came on and I was bopping to it. Only after the kids left did it occur to me that perhaps that was not a kid-friendly tune?

@rafial isn't it nice?

How the coffee gets cold, despite having a thing for that

I'm trying not to post too much about Thee Great Birdsite Exodus to Mastodon. But, in this toot, I fail.

Here's a fascinating / annoying thing: New folks arriving in the fediverse, in their newness, assert that Mastodon is also a new thing. Will it make it? Will it last? How will it succeed? Where can I follow Arby's and the celebrities?

Thing is, though, Mastodon is already pretty old. I created my first account at dot-social back in October 2016.

That's 6 years ago. That's a little over 30% of the time I've had a birdsite account - and I started that account in 2006, the year of the birdsite's creation.

Since then, I moved to a personal instance (which I accidentally nuked), a toot.cafe account, and most recently this account. I have other little-used accounts elsewhere. Moving is a thing. Embrace the impermanence of all social media.

Anyway, I guess tl;dr: this fediverse is not new even if you just now noticed it. It's pretty mature, actually. It's not perfect and it's always changing. It's most likely not going to ever slot into birdsite's exact niche. Judging it by that niche's metrics will just lead you to silliness.

I do also realize the irony of me saying "Embrace the impermanence of all social media" when I have a blog with archives going back to 2002 on my own personal domain.

@Mossop I think one of the best things I ever did for my blog archives was to export everything from a Wordpress database to a pile of markdown files for Jekyll. Might not work for every blog, but now I just have a git repo

@craigmaloney Hah! I forgot that you predate me in the decafbad space by a few years!

@madcap This notion may receive some level of cognitohazard rating

@lori That just sounds like an active battlestation

@lori I can only analogize that to a kitten deciding scale my arm to my head