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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/06/2026

My first time there was in '98; my then-girlfriend and I rode the trolley a few times, and the passengers (tourists) regularly busted out with the sing-song phrase from the commercial. Maybe that's the origin story for the hate.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 11/06/2026

Me too! it is cool looking

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 07/06/2026

I sold a perfectly good pair of studio monitor speakers several years ago because it was impossible to defeat this "feature." Either I played sound through them all the time, or I'd miss the first three-quarters of a second of absolutely everything.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 31/05/2026

Ah, cool--I couldn't remember either!

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 30/05/2026

On this side of the pond, as a die-hard Atari computer fan, I have to suppress this reaction as well. 52 going on 12 here...

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 27/05/2026

Enjoy! good to see you (even virtually)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 26/05/2026

I would play the shit out of that

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 22/05/2026

I knew where *that* was going as soon as I read the caption!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/05/2026

Custom van with 1981 Erol Otus D&D art oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/8165098...

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/05/2026

“35 years and I’m still locked inside this damn DOS game”

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 09/05/2026

It’s probably next to the fax paper

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Retroist @retroist.com · 08/05/2026

They locked eyes on the convention floor and it was love at first sight.

A black and white photo at a trade show shows a man in a light suit standing inches from a giant Qbert figure, staring right at it as if fully absorbed. Other attendees cluster around them, but the scene centers on his intense focus on the oversized arcade character.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 27/04/2026

Thank you Andrew! and for your kind support all this time

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 25/04/2026

not enough unicorns--can you get a 1450XLD in that photo too please

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/04/2026

Steve Jobs’ Fist Bursts Through Grave Clutching Crude Drawing Of Something Called ‘The Octomac’

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 22/04/2026

Yes--it was great talking, and thank you so much for the kind words. I hope you enjoy the book! The whole thing struck me while writing it, because as a kid of course I had no idea about the amusement machine side of it. I mean, I still love playing the games most. :)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 17/04/2026

Getting psyched for #VCFEast this weekend. I will be there signing and selling books—while ogling all the CRTs and blinkenlights, of course. Come stop by! Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18, 2026, at the InfoAge Science Museum in Wall, NJ, right by the Jersey Shore: vcfed.org/events/vinta...

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VCF East – Vintage Computer Federation

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 15/04/2026

Ha--that's hilarious! That makes sense though, given the proliferation of cat+pet bird videos out there. One of my cats doesn't care except to watch them fly past the window, while the other is ready to jump through the glass the moment she sees one.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 15/04/2026

Meanwhile, the birds: "Agghghhh! Don't eat us!"

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-ooh, neat-AAAAAAAAAAAAH

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Don't know what the attraction is for AI slop when you have amazing shots of the Artemis mission like this

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 12/04/2026

I highly approve of this mission

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

astronauts: *lost contact with earth for 40 minutes* me: jealous

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 03/04/2026

Thank you! That is very kind. Good to see you.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 01/04/2026

I was definitely lucky that we had one. But the XL was a much better deal, thanks to Tramiel (ha, for starting the price war, hopping to Atari, and then continuing it)

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 31/03/2026

Thanks! Even now I'm sweating the details. Like I had an line about how Palm's handwriting recognition was kind of a cheat (not in those words); you wrote in an area below the screen, and in Grafitti. It was beside the point, so we cut it, but it wasn't flat-out technically better than the Newton.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 30/03/2026

Ha--that's a good comparison. I didn't think of that.

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Jamie Lendino @jamielendino.com · 30/03/2026