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Alex Rosenberg

@ohmantics.bsky.social

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 22h

im just glad grumpy cat isn't alive to see all this

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · 6d

After Worlds of Wonder shut down, many of the Teddy Ruxpin engineering and test jigs were for sale at Sunnyvale’s Weird Stuff Warehouse. Weird to see the head attached to a metal project box loaded with switches and dials.

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Stephanie Ruhle @stephruhle.bsky.social · 18d

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY.
RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Aug 10

I once proposed that that be required for submission to the platform for release/duplication. It would help with backward compatibility work years later when the authoring game company is defunct.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Aug 10

My First Sony Electronic Sketch Pad HB-A5700 is what you’re looking for.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yondr pouches: teaching children all about magnets because our schools are otherwise failing to.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 27

I can’t read it. Haven’t worked at the fruit in 5 years. :-)

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 25

That thing is giving me flashbacks to the 1975 Karen Black TV movie anthology, “Trilogy of Terror.”

That fella hung out in my nightmares for a while along with Nazi persecution and nuclear war. It was eventually replaced by Space 1999’s “Dragon’s Domain.”

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 25

While in Tokyo for AsiaLLVM, I had lunch with old coworker @yosp-jp.bsky.social. Looking good!

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our supermarkets haven't ordered it. This is the direct result of the heavy consolidation of ownership of our markets.

Our two big chains both sell Thai chilis, but neither carries Thai basil.

If I can't find a heavily promoted PepsiCo product, what hope do I have for anything for marginal groups?

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mountain Dew has once again bottled Summer Freeze. Of all the limited releases they've ever done, this is my absolute favorite, tasting like a melted Bomb Pop.

It's LTO until July 4th, only 9 days hence. Not a single bottle or can exists in San Francisco yet.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Jun 25

This crap should be illegal like it used to be. Worse, this propaganda is directly owned/funded by foreign influences.

"Up against the wall, MFs"

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · May 23

Watch for which of the orange moron’s friends are buying the dip in AAPL he’s causing with his obvious criminal market manipulation.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · May 23

I look forward to her public execution following the Nuremberg-style trial she has invited upon herself.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Apr 26

Pretty sure I said that sort of thing would be happening — you’re exotic there.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Mar 27

Instability was due to it being early and buggy. % isn’t a useful measurement. It could run a select group of major apps.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Mar 5

US businesses should put a line item on all invoices calling out the additional “Trump Tariff” on all affected products.

This way the voters can be very clear in understanding that they’re getting what they voted for even if they didn’t understand it.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Feb 28

Dear trans cat girls, please arm yourselves with pink AR-15s and take back our country from these ghouls. You are the hero we need.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Feb 5

In theory there’s a WYSIWYG editor in Xcode, but in practice it isn’t for designers and leadership repeatedly refused to make a designer-focused version.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have to assume the design was based on somebody having played Pong at Andy Capp’s or perhaps it was somebody who’d worked at Atari. Is there a story here?

(Thinking about how few people know about Utopia Grokware, for example.)

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Feb 3

Billy Barty was a Saturday morning staple.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Feb 3

It’s also a cartoon mob boss shakedown. He already got exactly $1M from a bunch of corporations and will surely push for more.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Dec 23

Seems like most US domestic airline flight attendants would fail the interview portion of Eastern’s process. Customer service and kindness are dead.

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Dec 21

In honor of the Atari Star Wars coin-op game, that achievement should be called “Use the force, Luke.”

Alex Rosenberg @ohmantics.bsky.social · Nov 22

I was a child model.