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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-25 at 15:11

A snowy ride home

Pelted by tiny, windblown

Crystalline solids

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-24 at 20:48

“Well, you know that,” said Ford, “I rescued you from the Earth.”

“And what’s happened to the Earth?”

“Ah. It’s been demolished.”

“Has it,” said Arthur levelly.

“Yes. It just boiled away into space.”

“Look,” said Arthur, “I’m a bit upsest about that.”

Ford frowned to himself and seemed to roll the thought around his mind.

“Yes, I can understand that,” he said at last.

“Understand that!” shouted Arthur. “Understand that!”

Ford sprang up.

“Keep looking at the book!” he hissed urgently.

“What?”

“Don’t Panic.”

“I’m not panicking!”

“Yes, you are.”

“All right, so I’m panicking, what else is there to do?”

“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy’s a fun place.”

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-23 at 21:29

15840 DIGITS OF PI

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-22 at 09:31

I have written many books of which I haven't said a word here, among them "The Cyberiad," the "Fables for Robots" (in "Mortal Engines"), and "The Star Diaries," which on the generic map of literature are to be found in the provinces of the humorous---of satire, irony, and wit---with a touch of Swift and of dry, mischievous Voltairean misanthropy. As is well known, the great humorists were people who had been driven to despair and anger by the conduct of mankind. In this respect, I am one of those people.

Stanisław Lem

January 30, 1984

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-22 at 03:12

Also, I badly want Apollopunk to exist. It would be like steampunk, but with a retrofuturist reference point of the late 60s.

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-21 at 20:56

If only I had the IBM RISC space heater that was in my grad school office…

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-21 at 20:30

That cozy feeling on a cold day.

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-19 at 15:12

Listen…

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-19 at 02:55

Personal History

another quality EF1J PRESS publication

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-17 at 00:36

Watch this trick, kids: rattled off my wife’s Brooklyn phone number from 25 years ago when we started dating.

Neurons are amazing.

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-16 at 00:38

Higher resolution (?)

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-15 at 22:42

the pi above

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-14 at 18:50

Cloud computing

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-12 at 13:04

Sunday listening

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-08 at 12:43

Current mood

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-06 at 00:56

Winter weather advisory coming in… ^G^G^G

[#]tty

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-05 at 18:45

Current reading

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Written by Eric Furst on 2025-01-05 at 16:25

[#]31 and first of 2025. Go S. cerevisiae!

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Written by Eric Furst on 2024-12-31 at 16:11

Looking back on the year, I added quite a bit to my (right brain) site in 2024 with projects ranging from building an Altair 8800 replica from scratch and running early versions of Altair (Micro-Soft) BASIC to hauling a free matrix line printer home and seriously scaling up textmode prints. Along the way, I've enjoyed holding an ear to this wild, distributed, non-commercial online world that is #mastodon. Happy New Year to all!

https://ef1j.org

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Written by Eric Furst on 2024-12-29 at 16:20

Updated my printer page that explores lost (and noisy) aspects of the materiality of computing.

https://ef1j.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Printers

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