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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Me: Why am I so tired at barely 10:30pm? I have things I want to do.
Also Me: You woke up at 5am today, remember?
Me: This is a perplexing puzzle.
Also Me: You were up around the same time yesterday too, and you were up late then as well.
Me: Someone call Mr Holmes, there is an unsolvable mystery afoot.
Also Me: I'm going to bed, you're on your own.
Not much else makes my brain curl up into a defensive ball quite like setting an option "disabled = true" in a configuration file.
It has been A Week, friends, but I'm on my way home now. 
I finally have the last "missing" piece, the thing I used to have for my Commodore 64 as a kid but hadn't replaced until now.
The music keyboard overlay! All this does is hit keys on the normal keyboard but the aesthetics alone are worth the trip. So happy to see this one still had the original note name helper stickers on it too!
#retrocomputing #commodore64 #midi

I've had my eye on this ridiculous thing for a while, and decided the best way to evaluate it is to make it my office keyboard for a bit.
It has an extremely nice weight to it. Very good so far.
Can someone please convince Apple to get on the retro bandwagon and make me a beige laptop though?


