Adam Gashlin

i DON'T care with the COOLTH of a thousand NONSUNS

"I got a new SSD"
"How many GB?"
"One."

Here's all the covers together, it's such a neat design.

Cover of NHK CD-G 日本の野鳥　第1巻　森の野鳥編1 - Polydor VOG-YC1 Shows the pitta from track 29. Rendered here as a short bird with a mostly orange and cream body, black stripe on the head, wings of green, blue, and brown, bright red lower belly. It is listed as a fairy pitta (ヤイロチョウ), but the orange coloring may be more appropriate for another species such as the Indian pitta. The cover has the distinctive style of this series: The bird illustration is prominently pixelated, duplicated with the two copies crossing tails in the middle, overlapped by the vertical disc title banner.

A representative of the bunting family (ホオジロ科) on track 32, here labeled grey bunting (クロジ). But this looks more like a different family, the North American buntings, such as a blue grosbeak or varied bunting. Dark blue head and chest, reddish to brown wings and rear.

Scene setting image on track 23, a forest pond surrounded by bright green vegetation, reflecting a mountain and clouds in the background.

Eurasian goshawk (オオタカ) from track 33, one of few birds of prey represented in this series (most of the others I recall are owls). A heavily built bird perched on a branch, white body with brown bands, grey from the top of the head back to the wings.

Here's volume 1 of the NHK Wild Birds CD-G series, Forest Part 1.

Check out all 42 birds, with recordings and narration, in my web player: hcs64.com/VOG-YC1/

With this I've finally completed the 4 volume set! I ran across volume 2 in 2024, it's taken a few years for the others to show up for sale.

Mr. Portfolio Head

GitHub - RibShark/OmniDrive Contribute to RibShark/OmniDrive development by creating an account on GitHub.

Introducing OmniDrive! A firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage that enables features that allow for better, more complete reading of discs, including proprietary game discs.

github.com/RibShark/Omn...

It is the Nineties
and there is *only* time for...

Here's the last NHK Wild Birds of Japan CD-G I have: Volume 3: Grasslands, with illustrations and recordings of 31 birds. Now I just need to find Volume 1!

Check it out in my web viewer hcs64.com/VOG-YC3/

(Previously featured Volume 2 bsky.app/profile/hcs6... and Volume 4 bsky.app/profile/hcs6...)

Cube

Boy

"Why do pears—"
Suddenly, a bird!

We crashed Quest 64 but it made this sick remix

I have come here to kick Caesar, not to praise bubblegum

That's a a class action lawsuit you don't want to be on the wrong side of

monkey's paw curl | sh

Thanks for linking to my writeup! I figured I'd dig it out since VB is back in the zeitgeist, looks like it stayed on the Hacker News front page for a few hours this time.

Speaking of Virtual Boy, here's a clip from a Video Boy VUE, a tool from Intelligent Systems for showing Virtual Boy games on a TV or monitor. In 2021 I wrote up an article examining the hardware: hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

CD cover, titled NHK効果音集 6 (劇場・野球・チャルメラ) Pale orange background, lower 2/3 has a dizzying pattern of yellow concentric circles, interspersed with two other patterns in black and white. DCI 85796

Case back, track listing 1-5: clapping, cheering 6-8: theater noise 9: coffee shop 10-13: baseball 14-15: skiing 16-28: assorted sports 29: Charumera 30: Goldfish seller 31: Tofu shop trumpet 32: Waste paper exchange 33: Baked sweet potato 34: Banana seller 35: Chindon'ya 36: Jinta

Booklet page 3, tracks 27-36 Via Google Lens and Translate: 29 Charumera On a late winter night... when you hear this sound, you can't help but be drawn to the allure of a steaming hot bowl of ramen. The sound itself, when carried on the wind, has a somewhat melancholy tone... 29 チャルメラ 冬の夜ふけ･･･この音が聞こえると、湯気の立つ温かいラーメンの魅力についひかれて･･･という気分になりますね。音そのものは、風にのって聞こえたりすると、どことなくもの悲しい音色なのですが･･･。

Compact disc, label side

NHK Sound Effects Collection 6: Theater, Baseball, Charumera (1990)

Dogs under a tree during a sudden shower, at a park in downtown Austin, Texas, 2007

International Non-Breaking Space Station would have been asking for trouble

In North America Action Replay was called GradientShark

People keep telling me I can't solve my problems with Pepsiman but it's worked so far

Huh, never knew Video Ranch but I recognized Active Worlds, me and friends from school would build lairs and governments there

I'm imagining they need to be perpendicular

I took it as something like "economics isn't going to automatically fix abusive industry practices," maybe I'm missing the point.

PNG NG

cybercomics (actually a thing apparently)

GitHub - hcs64/crc-flip: Find a byte to change to match a CRC32 and MD5 Find a byte to change to match a CRC32 and MD5. Contribute to hcs64/crc-flip development by creating an account on GitHub.

Still have CRC32 on the mind. Here's something I've been thinking about for a while, correct a single byte error using CRC, checking with MD5 since these collide often with larger files: github.com/hcs64/crc-flip
Finally got the algorithm simplified, mostly publishing to get it out of my head.

Turns out I was half right. And less than half wrong.