misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Holy shitsnacks, the _Cowboy Bebop_ soundtrack is even more mind-blowingly awesome now as when I first heard it, and not just because this time I have cannabinoids to restore my brain chemicals to something closer to what they were when I first heard it. This isn't nostalgia – it's genuinely new to me in the listening.

Here's a videogame soundtrack that doesn't get enough love:

_Interstate '76_ (PC) by Aaron Salazar.

In 1997, we got a game of vehicle-based combat set in the American Southwest in the mid-Seventies. Even though my PC could only barely run it at the time, I played the hell out of it, and one solid part of the equation was the flawless funk soundtrack that puts you right into the setting.

Give it a listen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayO7P3-uCRk&list=PL_txsRvghL9nrVS_y9uby7EiHA1CtzjLc

When you see NATURE TRAIL TO HELL

NATURE TRAIL TO HELL

NATURE TRAIL TO HELL

IN THREE-DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEĒ

I think the most boneheaded aspect of it is the assumption that Unicode will make a mess on the web, but instead of changing it to something in nice, safe 7-bit ASCII, it's instead an 8-bit character that not only is not semantically related, but is wholly reliant on the local codepage, so it could become all kinda of nonsense depending on what system the webserver is serving to, so it's still not "web-safe". Nice job fucking it up, guys.

For fuck's sake, you overvalued cretins, if you're going to put in a dialog box warning the user that the filename they picked has characters that might trip up some ancient-ass webservers and such, don't just automatically sanitise the filename on save without presenting it to the user and asking if that's what they really want.

Oh, but didn't I want forced conversion of spaces to hyphen-dashes (not underscores!) and Greek betas to German eszetts?

Fuck Adobe.

My TI-99/4A was my first computer. I started programming when I was five years old, typing in code from a variety of sources and learning until I could roll my own from scratch. I used it to create images, small games, sounds, and music.

When my high-school biology class made models of DNA, they used gumdrops and toothpicks, wooden balls and dowels, the usual. I worked for days to code a demo that showed DNA unzipping and replicating. I _earned_ my A+ for that project.

Good times!

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard :

"Some PS/2-to-USB adapters are unreliable with early Model M's that require more power than the adapters can provide."

*sighs* I've used this heckin' awesome keyboard for about twenty years. Maybe it's time to move on, to replace it.

I'm not getting rid of it, though. It goes in the closet along with my Speak&Spell and my TI-99/4A. There aren't many objects I didn't make myself that have quite this much _me_ in their stories, you know?

I really, _really_ want there to be an environment variable in Windows 10 that tracks (various aspects of) whether my laptop is plugged in to its docking station, especially one that I can straight up use as a path to set up programs that let me declare configuration profiles on the commandline.

For example: the commandline `retroarch -c %GPU%.cfg` could point at "discrete.cfg" if docked, but "integrated.cfg" otherwise.

I'm gonna have to learn PowerShell to make this a reality, aren't I?