Parker Higgins @xor@mastodon.xyz

yeah I finally found the search combo that hits paydirt. Looking through a lot of old seed catalogs! This has been a very productive lunchtime

lol I'd been looking for literally months and within minutes of posting that I think I've found two candidates

If anybody wants an archive challenge: I've been looking very hard for a nice 1923 image (preferably illustrated, a photo would do) of a California Golden Poppy. I'd be eternally grateful if you found it! Here are nice pictures from ~1920 and 1924

lmao look at this goofy-ass phone they almost built

Today in 1923

Cool, here's a 1923 Segway

y'all like extremely elaborate patent illustrations of early 1920s industrial machinery?

good q

Here's a whole category of ephemera I'd never even considered: seed catalogs

Hi everybody, this is what pizza hut dot com looked like in January of 1997 http://oldweb.today/nsmac3/19970121013215/http://www.pizzahut.com

Setting a calendar alert for 2027 to check in on Art Dad

Secret grid project status: rewrote using blessings

Secret grid project status: take me to grid city

friday_night.jpg

Should I spend $100 on these

Holy cow, there already exists at least one public Onion service expressly for telnetting into, and it's an official Wikipedia mirror https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway

I think my next zine is going to be a selection of these beautiful mid-1980s computer ads

The most Free Software thing in my life right now is the built-in "fuzzy" mode for my system clock that says the (wrong) time in words

What do we think is the *single* US state not represented in the Hunts Point Produce Market?

just asking questions