Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026First console, light sixer Atari 2600 (still have), first computer Commodore Vic-20 (don't). 140
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm going to perhaps honor the spirit but break the letter: The Hungest Games. 050
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026After hearing "Going To Fennario" on Days ( @themountaingoats.bsky.social ) and then a bunch of versions of the Dead doing "Peggy-O"... ...Sweet William is William Tecumseh Sherman, isn't he? At least by the time he gets to Darnielle. "For his true love's sake, he left burnt cities in his wake." 000
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Genderbent Jenny Joseph, or Communard Barney The Dinosaur? You be the judge. 030
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I...don't have a single one. Good candidates: _Adventure_, _Zork_, _Pitfall!_. Now, _hacking_ games, sure: _Might And Magic_ on the Apple //e. I was bored at home for a couple days recovering from having my wisdom teeth extracted--also on vicodin--and reverse-engineered the character file format. 001
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Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 18/09/20266-year-old me would be impressed by my (eventual) career in astronomy. 10-year-old me would be impressed but baffled that I'm still playing D&D and indeed now know (or alas knew) a lot of the people who wrote those books. 13-year-old me would nod at the IT career, although... 1/3 160
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean we're all rightly pissed off about the New Jersey Data Center diesel spill, but...is anyone even gonna notice an additional 5000 gallons of diesel in the Hackensack River? Or has New Jersey gotten significantly cleaner since I lived there 30 years ago? 000
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If George Soros was good for anything, he'd be bankrolling millions of stickers of a smirking, pointing Trump with the caption "I did that" that we could slap over the Biden stickers on gas pumps all over the US. 010
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I had forgotten how magnificent the first sentence of Ursula K. LeGuin's _Always Coming Home_ was: "The people in this book might be going to have lived a long long time from now in Northern California." 030
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Downgrade a movie: The Dishwasher, the Shoplifter, His Side Piece, and the Guy She Banged Behind TheCircle K Dumpster. 040
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A thought about LLMs. We've been saying since 1964 with Dartmouth BASIC that we want to make it possible for non-programmers to write programs. Claude (and ilk) make this a lot closer than anything before. You really *can* say "write me a program to do X" and have it kinda work now. 1/ 230
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton was one of the 36 RIghteous Men. I will not be taking questions on this topic. 182
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Freaky. Yesterday I noticed _Entropy_ had come out and since I adored _Dark Delusion_ I bought it. Played an hour or so, stopped, and opened @jeannethornton.bsky.social ‘s _ASL_ for the very first time even though it’s been on my nightstand for months. Huh. IYKYK. 110
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026ASMR if you find dogs wrestling and Model M keyboards soothing. 020
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I found a terrific liminal space in Fallout: New California (psst @anyaustin.bsky.social ). Follow I-15 to the north; you will come to I-15 Bridge to Hesperia. Bring Radaway and Rad-X. Keep going. It will get radioactive for a while. The road will disappear but the terrain will remain. 1/ 122
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I just watched the 1962 _The Manchurian Candidate_; you know, the one with Frank Sinatra. It has aged really disturbingly well. 020
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026On the one hand, I really need to get a better handle on my email. On the other hand, _nice_. 040
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I collect and restore old computers for fun. The oldest definitely-working machine in my collection is from 1975. The (not even high-end) phone in my pocket didn't _exist_ 40 years ago, and its closest competitor cost tens of millions of dollars. Now it's under $1000 and weighs a few ounces. 120
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Betty Soo and James McMurtry were spectacular tonight. As I expected, after having been astonished by them last year in Tucson, but damn that was a fine show. 020
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I'm playing in a GURPS game and I am disappointed to report, that just like in real life, a couple levels of Multimillionaire and Independent Income is basically a superpower. 040
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026That was an extremely specific dream: Scene: I am talking to JOHN DARNIELLE @themountaingoats.bsky.social after a show. ME [confidently]: Shredpud is a good band name. JOHN DARNIELLE [bemused]: No, it isn't. I think I must admit, in the cold light of wakefulness, that he is correct. 020
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I should get hired as Trump's Bad Idea Fairy. You know what liquid is highly reflective, definitely doesn't grow algae, evaporates very slowly, and has the property that almost everything floats on it so you can just skim debris and dead ducks off? Mercury, that's what. 020
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I went and saw Lucinda Williams open for Bob Dylan tonight. She's very angry. One of the things that occurred to me is that someday I will be somewhere, doing something, when It Happens. And the whole room will erupt with joy. 061
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026No 'Star Wars'. No 'Star Trek'. Name a Favorite Sci-Fi Franchise. 130
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My brain's still got it. Woke up from uneasy dreams, not transformed into a gigantic insect, but with a phrase in my head: Sav-On-Arola's Discount BBQ Supplies! 050
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Believe it or not this is basically her baseline level of crazy-looking. 040
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Am I the only person who thought it was obvious that Big MT was Mammoth Mountain? The Think Tank people even tell you it WAS a mountain until it was nuked into a crater. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth...en.wikipedia.orgMammoth Mountain - Wikipedia 010
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Appropriate unto the day: youtu.be/Kwyh3zQ6vPgyoutu.beJason Isbell - Decoration Day liveYouTube video by Spillway Productions 030
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Grumble. Was replacing my handlebar grips today and my bicycle lights, and decided to take off the mount on the seat post that was for a shock cord attached to a dog lead, in that none of my current dogs have been trained to run beside a bike. The screw on the seat post clamp stripped out. 140
Adam Thornton @athornton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I didn't quite realize how long this was likely to take. 220
