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When my RSS reader pointed me to a retrospective on QuickTime as “an Apple innovation of the 1990s that managed to have made it out of that decade,” it just so happened I’d managed in recent days to have simulated an early stage of that step towards “multimedia” myself. While working with the Snow emulator to try out “dot matrix printing” and “old word processors,” I’d kept an eye on its development. A “branch” promising steps towards offering the Motorola 68030 microprocessor had got my attention, but I’ll admit to wondering how many steps would be needed until it became available. When the first “030 Macs” showed up in the general “cutting-edge build,” it was something of a pleasant surprise.
( Speeding up and stress testing )

krpalmer

As a title in isolation, “The Purple Testament” got my attention. Rod Serling’s episode preview filled things in a little (and quashed whatever speculation the colour might have raised); I understood it would be a war story. Beyond that, I was willing to wait and see.
( The fatal colour (in black and white) )

krpalmer

While asking myself “what can I post about here next?” I happened to think of a project creeping towards completion, and pushed to finish it at last just so I could mention it. After revamping my home page last year (but well over “a year” ago when counting in months), my thoughts had turned to a sub-page where I’d talked up “some of my favourite MSTings.” Aware of all the time that had passed since I made that page and the links that had “rotted” in that time, I decided to revamp it. Rewriting my descriptions was a slow process, though; I suppose I was thinking they would have to “stick around” in a way these posts don’t quite have to.
( Additions and contemplations )

denise posting in

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

krpalmer

Rod Serling holding a model biplane and talking about a World War I pilot in his next-episode preview got my attention. Recollections of having seen “The Last Flight” brought up before just might have come back to me. As I waited to reach the episode proper, I suppose I did get to thinking a bit about how “the flying aces” have been picked out from the grimmer image of the First World War as a whole, but a thought or two about the World War I Flying Ace in Peanuts reminded me that the episode was older than Snoopy’s first appearance in a flying helmet and scarf. That ever-popular comparison “we’re now further in time from this thing than it was from that thing...” came to mind. When the episode premiered sixty-five years ago, the beginning of the First World War had preceded it by less than fifty years.
( Future shock )

krpalmer

Watching Patlabor 2: The Movie again, about twenty-nine years and eleven months after I’d first seen it, marked the latest “it’s been that long, huh?” moment in time since I attended my introductory anime club showing at university (one month before they screened that movie). I had been thinking, however, of further iterations on that idea to make a bigger deal of my personal anniversary. Other titles were coming to mind that I’ve seen once yet never quite got back to despite taking some interest in them (and, quite often, having DVDs or Blu-Rays sitting around, many of them unopened...) Those sole viewings weren’t separated from now by quite as much time as the movie, but I was still ready to think that, again, “it’s been long enough.” For the next title in mind, though, I’d still be dropping back in on a different part of my university years.
( Enter the Knight Sabers )

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