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       Location: Peets
       Input Device: Gemini PDA
       Audio: Ambient mall sounds
       Visual: Sticky table, bag from Penny's w/ clearance Hawaiian shirts
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       Mental: 30%
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       I had a pretty good geek out yesterday...actually, for much of this
       weekend!  I had a chance to participate in #WeAreNameless and, and
       was deflowered by Hackers!  HACKERS!!!  #WeAreNameless is a pretty
       cool event that takes place on mastodon...or even the fediverse(?)
       I still am unsure of the terminology.
       
       Anyhow, Every month (?) a movie viewing is planned and coordinated
       all over the world (thanks Ella K., Cyberpunk Goddess!)  The movie
       is usually cyberpunk/hacker related.
       
       At the designated UTC time, HALF the Fediverse hits play on the
       player of their choice and watches the movie together!  VHS, BetaMax,
       DVD, Blu-ray, AVI, ASCII streaming, homemade flipbook....whatever
       format you got!  I think smj and froggyme from SDF was even watching
       on LazerDisc!  How cool is that!
       
       During the viewing, movie banter goes on in mastodon using hash tag
       WeAreNameless while we watch the movie.  I think they typically watch
       on Saturday, but they watched on Sunday since it was the 24th
       anniversary of the film, "Hackers" and it was also the 1 year
       anniversary of #WeAreNameless, (and it was also my 0-day participation
       anniversary for #WeAreNameless, LOLZ!)
       
       I leveled up with my unofficial homemade #WeAreNameless participant
       badge!  It looks like this:
       
        --==<<( #WeAreNameless )>>==--
       
       Also during my geek out, I got to hang out on a retired incarnation
       of SDF that was running on an AT&T 3B2/500.  I'm not familiar with
       the 3B2, but I thought it was really cool that the system was brought
       back online.  The system runs UNIX System V r 3.2.2 and was active
       in the 90's.  I was not part of SDF back then, but I was aware of the 
       community's existenz.  Man, so much computing history right here on
       SDF!
       
       I was surprised to see that the 3B2 has Microsoft Word running on
       it that you can run from a terminal!  I think the only versions of
       MS Word that I have used has only been in a GUI in MS Windows.  I
       ran it for kicks and it runs Microsoft (R) Word Version 5.0.4!  I
       created a file just to test it out.
       
       This past weekend was the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, over in
       Elmhurst, IL and SDF had a booth with SDF VoIP and the SDF AT&T 605
       Travelling UNIX terminal.  I think the terminal was attached to the
       3B2/500 and festival attendees chatted in an older version COM(MODE),
       the SDF chat software.  I saw some attendees in there and they gave
       festival weather updates and encouraged users to visit Elmhurst.  Wish
       I coulda been there.
       
       I also popped in and out of anonradio.net, listening to the streams,
       as well as the anonradio COM channel this past weekend.  Man, I 
       haven't geeked out like this for quite some time!  I even got trucker 
       butt from sitting down for so long!  I found out on COM that Ric Ocasek 
       from The Cars and Eddie Money had passed over the weekend.  It made me sad.
       DJ Daniel was playing some of their tunes as well as some tunes by
       other artists that have past that are part of my timeline.  It made
       me exponentially sad.  The Daniel made up for it some by playing
       a big block of Gary Numan.  Friends _are_ electric!
       
       Gahh...forgot the footnotes and eyez iz tired.  Look it up.
       
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