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Throwback to me sneaking in signatures into my books! Signing the books after they’re assembled and packed is a logistical nightmare (you don’t want to have to repack and reship books at your home), and I find bookplates to be clumsy… …but @npub1etn8...cpgd had this great idea of signing a 100 books in advance at the printer’s, when they were still uncut signatures – so some people would be get a nice surprise. Even bought super nice pens just for that occasion. It was a fun moment.

npub14787...y4ag 2 weeks ago

I wonder if the LINC computer from 1962 is the first pixel font on a display, ever. The font was 4x6, and the small screen seems to hold only 25x12 characters. The font is so simple it took up half a page in a manual. I’m curious if it was designed by Mary Allen Wilkes?

npub14787...y4ag 1 month ago

The sum of all fears (13 missing because of classic superstition. 4/14/24 missing because “4” sounds like “death” here in Taiwan. 2 missing because the lobby is tall.)

npub14787...y4ag 2 months ago

I’ve noticed a bunch of intercoms in Hong Kong have this animation of a cat on a loop:

npub14787...y4ag 2 months ago

I have seen so many rotary phones that it’s hard sometimes to imagine an alternative to that interface. But here’s one – a “Trommelwähler” (drum dialer) from Germany, model Fg Tist 264. (Apparently it wasn’t very successful.)