Brendan Enrick

Oh my, yes! There are tons of good ones.

I think i hosted Starcraft clan and Diablo guild sites on them. It was a useful way of disseminating info for channels and upcoming ladder plans.

I have one of the oldest Facebook accounts because I had an email address from one of the early schools able to join.

I recall something called Friendster, too.

There were other sites like Geocities, too.

Yep, I did some of this work live on my old coding stream many years ago. We were just making a silly game, but it's so neat seeing the hand drawn sprites animate!!!

Do you have the animation in a gif we can see?

All I'm saying is, 🤷 is just not the same as ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Agreed. We need to get these back into regular use!

I think this is the most likely one to do it. From what we've seen so far, a full release of the files might make that happen unless the propaganda machine remains strong.

Movie titles of: The Last Starfighter, Inception, The Goonies, The Matrix, Ghostbusters, Interstellar, Galaxy Quest, and Back to the Future all lined up so that letters vertically spell "StirTrek"

There is a winner that is not me, but here's what you were supposed to figure out.

I should also mention that I don't think I've ever seen the fifth element with the "T" in black. It matches better than Stargate. And believe me, I checked all over for it.

Only one I'm unsure of is that Stargate guess, but there are tons of movies that have "T" matching that one better than mine that don't seem to fit the theme.

If someone could yell at @jeffblankenburg.com for this, I'd appreciate it.

We will no longer be able to build our own computers if this keeps going...

That's awesome! I'm glad he knows the importance of politics!

I'm thinking about becoming a poll worker.

The extent of my engagement is going to council meetings and committee meetings in my local area and marching with a local politician in our annual Independence Day parade.

I have also noticed a decline in string cheese quality. I tried a few brands. The kids don't get the same quality we had, and that's a bummer.

Next you'll say that you want politicians who are: sane, reasonable, inspiring, and trying to do good for the people they represent...

I love my local zoo, and one big reason is that it's not. Its perfect size means I can take the kids, and by the time they're done with the zoo, we're done with the zoo!

The @akronzoo.bsky.social is great!

I keep missing these while you're live! Keep up the good work!

You can use ranked choice voting with proportional representation!

I think they need to not know what stocks they own, either. Gotta be completely unaware, or they can buy their stocks before taking office and just help that industry.

Makes me wish we'd had a sensible, consumer-priced alternative here.

When they were planning to let it run Android and iOS apps...

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

Mall Santa Crying Hysterically In Photo With Toddler

Mall Santa Crying Hysterically In Photo With Toddler

I feel like a commerce secretary should understand economics better than this...

File-based apps - .NET Learn how to create, build, and run C# applications from a single file without a project file.

New reference article detailing lots of info about running C# file-based apps via `dotnet run` now available! Makes for great input to a coding agent when working on file-based apps.

learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/...

Stephanie in a snow globe Stephanie @pagnificent.bsky.social I wish my sewer district were as cool as you

roses are red
violets are blue

Screenshot from project 2025 that says By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character. For example, never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children "should be" masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise) or prohibited from learning in a school building. Such decisions should be left to parents and medical providers. We have learned that when CDC says what people "should" do, it readily becomes a "must" backed by severe punishments, including criminal penalties. CDC should report on the risks and effectiveness of all infectious disease-mitigation measures dispassionately and leave the "should" and "must" policy calls to politically accountable parties. Conflicts of Interest. There was a time when the CDC could not take money

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.

And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Only that green van thing (maybe a taxi?) knew how to lean into the turn. Other drivers need practice learning to control skids.

And yes, I laughed my ass off watching this a few times.

If you want someone to compete with Steam, go support @gog.com as much as you can.

They also do a lot of work to get old games running on modern systems as the "Good Old Games" moniker implies.

Apple argues against right-to-repair bill that would reduce its control Apple supports the right to repair — but only to an extent.

My comment is what I think Apple would like (licensing phones).

For example, they fought for years against a consumer's rights to repair phones. They changed tactics in that fight years ago, but they do everything they can to still be anti-consumer with it.

www.theverge.com/2024/2/9/240...