Weirdness: Round three

[Té Rowan]

https://archive.org/details/ChristmasSpiritsBBC — Anyone wants a ghost story for Christmas?

[Té Rowan]

http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/index.html — An Artistic Study of the Effects of Celery on Loose Elastic.

This may also be the origin of the Standard Urban Groceries.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/12/06/why-does-engrish-happen-in-japan-30-year-old-fart-related-signage-mistake-edition/

The Otaru Poot Mystery... solved.

[Té Rowan]

Shiny new fic time:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52060615 — "Once We Were Warriors" by LordAllenson.R/SM cross. Four chapters already.

Someone is, well, isekai'd from a fantasy world to a modern Tokyo housing both Ranma and SM.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/12/10/didnt-win-this-years-starbucks-lucky-bag-lotto-dont-worry-theres-something-even-better/

Some nice advice to Starbucks fans. Should work for other places, too, including home.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/12/12/japans-kanji-of-the-year-for-2023-reveals-the-worries-of-japanese-society/

Every year, one kanji is voted in as the Kanji of the Year.

[Té Rowan]

http://www.ladyjupiter.freeservers.com/jupiterhahamain.htm — “You know you like Sailor Jupiter too much when…”

[Té Rowan]

Some of you probably remember the type-in magazines and their wealth of programs in various BASIC dialects. I even managed to port some of them to Sinclair Colour BASIC.

Anyway, one of these type-ins was named Ings of Threek and was an adventure for the Sinclair ZX-81. At the end, it printed a text message. The first line is thoroughly stuck in my memory: "WE THREEK INGS OF ORIEN TAR".

Also, one BASIC-related amusement was that of composing sentences out of the keywords available in your BASIC. One could get something like "LET LEN AND VAL GO TO SIN TAN".

Edit: Damn typos...!

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Some of you probably remember the type-in magazines and their wealth or programs in various BASIC dialects. I even managed to port some of them to Sinclair Colour BASIC.

I typed up a word processing program from one of those magazines, for the Commodore 64. It worked right off the bat, and I used it for years. Ah, for those days long past when I could type 80 wpm and give a clean first draft. These days, it's more 80 typos per minute.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/12/20/the-thanko-lucky-bag-overfloweth-with-interesting-products/

Lucky bag season is on in Japan.

[Té Rowan]

https://ifunny.co/picture/this-isjust-a-reminder-that-when-sirterry-pratchett-was-knighted-GbaLBFs27
https://img.ifunny.co/images/bfa56786466d6ed458159e0cb9830754e216c71f05099a9fa5de924195133214_1.jpg

The late Sir pTerry and his sword.

[Té Rowan]

https://soranews24.com/2023/12/22/japan-creates-public-monument-to-original-doge-meme-dog-in-her-home-prefecture%e3%80%90photos%e3%80%91/

Mou...! Grumpy Cat is dead, Doge is dead, and Nyan Cat isn't feeling all that great.

[Té Rowan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Le5-AUYgw — Here is another great sound generator of times past, a Paxman Valenta.

[Té Rowan]

[Neko-]

Well, have a merry christmas this year aswell from my side...



(and for those wondering... that's the Anton Pieck square in the Efteling themepark in the Netherlands )