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A metal hot dog cooking station, labeled "Electric Snack House - Fresh, Tender, Juicy Hot Dogs, individually wrapped in cellophane" with a picture of a hot dog with electric lightning bolts around it while also wearing a sombrero. 3 small ports are at the bottom where assumedly the hot dogs exit their electrical cooking journey.

madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've got a non-functioning Lear Siegler ADM-3A that I wanted to work up as a simple terminal with a Pi or perhaps just contain the keyboard/video for my basement servers. I loved that old 70s terminal design.

A Lear Siegler ADM-3A in all of it's curved fiberglass glory. It's a standalone terminal with a simple keyboard, a small monitor, and a curved section from the monitor down to the base. It makes it look kind of like an old sports car. The top section is white, and the bottom is blue.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plus, having gotten to see a Jacquard loom in Michigan, it's pretty obvious where all of this came from. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquar...

Punch cards hanging in sequence next to a Jacquard loom, encoding the instructions for the patterns

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

HEY LEADOFF WALK TO WHITE SOX SECOND BASEMAN CHASE MEIDROTH!

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's got a little French to it

John Cleese's Frenchman from Monty Python & The Holy Grail

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This interview with Mike Vasil [chef's kiss] www.mlb.com/news/2026-nl...

Mike Vasil wearing a shirt that says "Celibate for Sean"

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've posted this image like 4x this week already.

Marge telling Homer "You know, the press went full USSR 'Pravda' so gradually I didn't even notice."

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And Gwen's hair changes a lot for 2 months. Also, I'm not sure she's wearing the same ring each time. Looks like in the earliest videos: no ring. But she mentions her husband in the first posted video. Could be they recorded for over a year, but we'd have to look at events to tell.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's not meant to be taken LITERALLY. It's a metaphor for all Superb Owl quarterbacks.

A man from Monty Python's Life of Brian pontificating about a misheard quote from Jesus about "blessed are the cheesemakers" being a metaphor about dairy producers in general.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"There shall in that time be rumors of pitching changes when they don't occur. And in some cases, a great confusion about where things are, and nobody will know where lieth those batting gloves that Sam left near the ice cream machine only just the night before around 8 o'clock."

Michael Palin as the mild prophet from Monty Python's The Life of Brian

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We're celibate for Sean!" Damn this team is hilarious.

Prior to his first postseason outing, Burke notably laid out his personal stakes to the Chicago Sun-Times by saying, "This is my life. I don’t have family, no girl, no kids. This is all I do." In his second postseason outing last night, Burke certainly pitched like a man who did not have a family. (After the White Sox beat the Houston Astros in the Wild Card series, Burke clarified that he did, in fact, have a family, he just didn't have a family of his own. His declaration of familial ties was interrupted by Kay, who swooped in to grab the mic and shout, "We're celibate for Sean!") While the White Sox offense picked apart the Guardians' bullpen in the sixth inning, the team's own pitching held strong. Burke allowed one hit in 5.1 innings, threw 86 pitches, and after he was done, the Guardians still had to beat Grant Taylor.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Crappy liquor store retorting that they're just reflecting what the community wants.

Screenshot from the video clip with the interviewer saying to Vanity Fair "Like, you guys are advertising people."

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know we have rain tomorrow, but Summer isn't fully gone yet. Get out and enjoy the evening #bikechi

Screenshot from a weather station in Portage Park, Chicago on 9/29/26 showing a temperature at just after 3pm of 82.8 F

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thiiiiiiis. The "benchmarks," such as they are, are cherry picked and dishonest at best. There is literally zero scientific rigor to any of this.

Screenshot from the movie Pi, where Sol is talking to Max, telling him "...as soon as you disregard scientific rigor,"

Screenshot from the movie Pi, where Sol is talking to Max, telling him "you're no longer a mathematician."

Screenshot from the movie Pi, where Sol is talking to Max, telling him "You're a numerologist."

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's so much, but this stuck out to me.

Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year, and as part of its risk factors, warned that many of its largest clients were not locked into long-term contracts and could cut or stop spending.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pretty sure the last one I saw was Quick Change

Bill Murray, dressed as a clown robbing a bank in the 1990 movie Quick Change

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Warmed up a bit, but still

Billy Idol singing "It's a nice day for a light sweater / it's a nice day for a cardigaaaaan!"

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dang, first overnight low under 50 in a long time!

Graph of the temperature in Portage Park Chicago overnight from 9/25/26 to 9/26/26. The temp dropped below 50 just before sunrise and then popped up just after, hitting a low of about 47 F just before dawn.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dodgers, maybe not officially. However, I still maintain that PCA is a cousin of Scott Farkus.

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finishing talks with Christina giving out Malort shots

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madopal @madopal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If we're doing music, tho, I choose John Panozzo's Captain Stubing with Shorts outfit from the "Too Much Time On My Hands" video. I just need a curly brown wig.

Chuck Panozzo, from the band Styx, sitting at a bar smoking a stogie, wearing a white naval outfit in the video for Too Much Time On My Hands.

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