I received an email from John Graham-Cumming telling me my code was in the original Terminator movie. And it's true! Here's the still from the movie:

People always ask me “how do you develop taste?” And I say “go to the niche telephone museum and study the origin of buttons and don’t be a little bitch”

One more night having to wear a post-surgery eye patch. In the tradtion of great Jews with eye patches, here's Sammy Davis Jr: youtu.be/9EiVjgqElmQ?si=RpYU…

1985, Microsoft Windows 1.

Hup Holland Hup!

My ridiculous vintage Sony word processing system has arrived! Shows nothing on the screen when the "keyboard" is connected and turned on. Shows the image in the picture when it's not. I don't have disks, unfortunately, so maybe it needs software? Hard to tell which chunk of the thing is the actual computer. The monitor appears to be sitting on a base, but that base is actually connected to the monitor. Anyone have a manual? One really weird element: You have to hold the floppy button in to insert a floppy, otherwise the door is blocked. So you press button in, stick in the floppy, then release button, and it mounts it.

Back in my day, televisions were whittled straight out of the tree.

A cartoon by Natalie Horberg.

The Pirate Radio Guys podcast, episode 20 youtube.com/watch?v=azXiDMCb… @HankandJim

Another great one from yiddishwit.com

Hillary, your husband was getting BJs in the Oval Office.

The extremely wealthy paying a billionaire for seats to watch millionaires play basketball so that it can be streamed on TV for massive networks to air ads for everyone to sell products? Sounds like capitalism at work to me.

I had to remove the lens from my glasses for the eye that had cataract surgery. Nobody notices that my glasses have one lens. (Other eye to be done next month.) Got intermediate focus. About 30 inches away is 100% sharp b

CHADs on the floor! Do you have a Chad collector for teletype model 35 ASR? We could use one. icm.museum

"The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music" theatlantic.com/technology/2…

The "Thyratron" tube youtube.com/shorts/zZ2EVXqUc… @curious_marc

"California water systems hit by Iranian hackers in terrifying threat to drinking supply" nypost.com/2026/06/13/us-new… #defcon

26 years ago.

Have a great week, everyone! #ShavuaTov

זיכרונו לברכה May his memory be a blessing.