Category: Digital Art / Computer Graphics / AI

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff.

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.]

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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.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff.

Math is Fun.

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.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Nancy found Aunt Fritzi’s LP collection

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff.

Blesiloquent Hot Links

ASKO Beer, 50 Country Artists (2025) Compilation lifted from There I Ruined It: “I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing ‘cold beer.'” [Related song here.]

Bicycle.

AI or Die.

Read fast.

Sound UP.

Squeezins.

Carol Lang.

Hidden art.

Altar attack.

Buying Fats.

Self-defense.

Invisible scars.

US Pipe Factory.

Because internet.

Stop interrupting.

Project Nightengag.

Fact checking Robin.

Amy Stewart’s glass.

Painting the windows.

Tom Waits as a blender.

Jackie Chan’s elephant.

Student loans vs results.

Rik Boa says you look good.

Don’t bring your dog, whitey.

About Industrial Sea-Foam Green.

Jumping Dave [via Everlasting Blört].

How bad was it? [via Thompson, blog].

Now they must cry. Cry, cry, cry.
But why do they cry? [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: 7-pack of ASKO Beer created by Grok per my request.]

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Dithyrambic Hot Links

She’s Gone to Napoli, Laurel Aitken (1963) Dubbed The Godfather of Ska (and later Boss Skinhead) Cuban-Jamaican Lorenzo “Laurel” Aitken moved to the UK in 1960 and dropped 15 singles before heading back to Jamaica three years later. He returned to the UK in 1970 and continued performing and recording until his death in 2005.

Irony.

The Skynail.

Echo Bridge.

Boom Boom.

Inflatableman.

Enshittification.

Not the Artemis.

B&W Back Beach.

Yeeting fish heads.

Nicolas V. Sanchez.

The battle for punk.

A bunch of campers.

G.I. Jive with G.I. Jill.

The Great Wide Open.

Kinetic sand art table.

On drinking and puking.

Space Policy Directive 1.

Tom the Bot threw a hissy.

Hickshit [via Bits & Pieces].

The History of Kit-Cat Klock.

Decompaction [via Thompson, blog].

Hernán Cortés vs “the Noble Savage”.

The Chimpanzee Civil War (with video).

The Strandbeests [via Everlasting Blört].

1928 Ford LM Gypsy Wagon [via Miss Cellanea].

An excellent argument against large data centers.

WWII British home bomb shelters [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: A.I. modified 1969 Fiat Abarth 2000 Scorpione found here.]

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