Mike, First of His Name · 7 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name · 7 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

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@mike

Admin of Chinwag, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities.

Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never, ever get tired of that joke.

I talk about #retrocomputing a lot, especially #Commodore64 stuff. I also do a lot of #gardening and am trying to grow more of my own #food. I am learning to make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia

7 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

That's it! Thanks all for coming and watching what might be our last lockdown movie night - given lockdown ends this week.

I might keep something rolling, I've got some ideas. But first - bedtime!

Mike, First of His Name · 11 hours ago

11 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

Ten minutes!

Mike, First of His Name · 13 hours ago

13 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

Most people: able to differentiate movies from TV shows from news bulletins from music videos

Also most people: every audio recording is just called a podcast now

Yes OK I have OPINIONS about this.

Mike, First of His Name · 15 hours ago

15 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

Thinking about Gaslight Music and found this short doco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXhLXY9x-4

I remember being bored one night, driving down there on a whim and coming home with a Butthole Surfers CD. Probably Electriclarryland.

Kids these days don't know what they missed.

Gaslight Music: A Short Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXhLXY9x-4

Mike, First of His Name · 15 hours ago

15 hours ago

Mike, First of His Name

Meech had been absent for about 36 hours - just long enough for me to start to worry - so of course he finally drops by for a meal while I'm down at the vampires getting drained and I miss him.

I swear that boy messes with me deliberately sometimes.

Bremen Saki

Probably not what you were looking for.

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