Digital Art / Computer Graphics / AI

Victorian Vampire Sorority

[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. The raccoon poster was the result of asking Grok for an image based on my Xwitter account.

Flabellating Hot Links

“Old Lenny’s dead now. He got bitten by a badger while walking through the river naked one night, and later died of sepsis. Yet as I hit the water, the last thing I saw was his weathered and alcoholic face in my mind, and I knew the old special forces bastard was sending me a message from beyond the grave.” (Abergavenny man Johnny Turnip on his near-death experience.)

Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard, Tom Waits (1978)From the album Blue Valentine. According to Grok, the song lineup is:
Tom Waits / vocals, electric guitar; Alvin “Shine” Robinson / electric guitar; Harold Battiste / keyboards; Scott Edwards / bass; Earl Palmer / drums; Herb Hardesty / tenor saxophone.

“COLE!”

The Frog.

Camperage.

Roll ‘Em Lola!.

Melbourne alleys.

A covey of Simcas.

Baby’s 1st hibachi.

The Do Hiemon Box.

Conceptual parking.

Peter Drake’s guitar.

Flavio Belardo’s piano.

Collecting dead snakes.

Enshittificating Norwegia.

Call me when you get there.

His mudflaps were too short.

The Midnight Special pilot show.

Rocks can be racist [h/t Xenophilic].

Big dirty frogs [via Thompson, blog].

Misheard lyrics [via Memo Of The Air].

Laundry day sorrows [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image created using Grok, based upon a quote found in this story.
h/t Memo Of The Air.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Escher’s Great-Grandson?

[Nightmare Perspective by Swedish photographer Erik Johansson
found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 962 – Vincent, Smoldering Girl & A Froggie

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 961 – Skywhale, Road Trippy & Posing in Sections

[Found here, here and here.]

The HP 9820A (AKA the 9800 series model 20) was HP’s third calculator. It made use of many of the same parts used to make the HP 9810. In fact, a number of PC boards were interchangeable between the two. There was, however, a major distinction: The HP 9820A was HP’s first algebraic calculator. It was a fully algebraic calculator with parentheses, precedence and even implied multiplication. (e.g., 2AB meant 2 times A times B.) The calculator displayed the expression as entered on a single line alphanumeric LED display (which showed 16 characters and scrolled as needed) and evaluated it when the EXECUTE key was pressed.

The HP 9820A was originally priced around $5,000 to $6,000 circa 1972, approximately $44K in 2026 USD.

[Unaltered image found here. Fake ad copy courtesy of Grok.]