Two things. First, these were sent to me directly from China based on the packaging, and it's quite obvious these should be warn for the aesthetic ヒ院な and not because, say, you want to go hiking in them or wear them as daily drivers. I'll take it.
Second, and this is top-notch comedy: I was notified these got delivered on Friday, but they weren't downstairs, and today they showed up at my door, with the packaging ripped open on one side. We get a ton of packages here, it's obvious that a neighbor grabbed it by mistake.
THIS MEANS A NEIGHBOR OPENED A PACKAGE, THESE WERE INSIDE, AND THEY HAD TO SIMULTANEOUSLY PROCESS THAT THIS WAS NOT SOMETHING THEY ORDERED *AND* THIS IS SOMETHING THAT EXISTS
I bet they didn't get much else done this weekend
For anyone curious, I got these from shopmoonlambo.com/collections/fo… but the site is currently down for me. Maybe they finished selling all of these sneakers and will disappear into the night. But if they come back, enjoy. Again, they're not QUALITY sneaks, they're AWESOME sneaks
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My company name for my documentaries is BOVINE IGNITION SYSTEMS, a band name my pal and I came up with in High School. (The Band's page is cow.net/bis and has all our music.) When I made documentaries and needed a company, I named it that.
But in the running was GUFFEY PARK, which is a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to where I lived for a few years, and which is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It has a sign on it that says GUFFEY PARK and everything. I'd go by it every time I drew Caricatures. Look:
Now, this park actually has a historical reason for this: It was named for two local residents because it was at the center of a fight where a local business tried to expand over the location. So, at this point, it was named a park out of pure spite. It used to have a sign.
I have worked for the Internet Archive for 9.7 years, and have visited 3 scanning centers personally, seen photos and video from a half dozen more. The working conditions are entirely fine. It is a boring job but no more or less boring than any cataloging job is.
In the photos and videos (as well as the personal visits) the temperature, lighting, and arrangements are all like working in a standard office. The noise level is flipping pages by a dozen or more people wearing headphones. Instructions and metrics are clear.
If a good friend, follower or person DMing me told me they were applying for the job, I would tell them it's a service level job like doing inventory or data entry, but I would feel entirely comfortable telling them to go for it.
Need a very vicious battle fighting for very low stakes for a change? There's this complete jerk in the Interactive Fiction world who's been on a years and years-long tear to debase and criticize a rotating set of targets who he puts forward as tyrants of adventure games.
Now, he's been at this for YEARS, well over half a decade, with the fervent energy of the truly misguided and the pettiness of someone who got splashed by a car driving past when he was 18. The seething closing-eye stare of walking to a store display as the last item is taken.
Anyway, he waited for the latest IF Competition to be underway, sent an essentially forged e-mail to all the competitors and others he can find, making all sorts of claims with the voice and heft of "V" from "V for Vendatta".
So, today's a very special day! We've compiled the new WASM/JS emulators from MAME 0.225 (a few days after release) and I'm going to plug them in (after backing up the previous ones) and run testing against them to find what breaks.
Some games may temporarily stop working.
But if this works, this automates a LOT of what the archive emulates, and following MAME closely means both newest advancements arrive, but also that bugfixes/improvements can happy because the team can see the work directly reflected at IA.