Rob Vincent 🎙️💅 @Rob_T_Firefly@hackers.town

If I'm going to attempt to start selling print-on-demand t-shirts, it's got to be TRENDY AS SHIT. https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/The-Obligatory-Pop-Culture-Mashup-Shirt-by-ModernStuff/74948161.UGYPM

My every-so-often roundup of the various places you can currently hear my audio work:

@HackerRadioShow - FM talk radio by a bunch of hackers and phreaks, myself included
​ Archives: https://2600.com/offthehook

https://modern.technology - My original podcasts, including:
​ Sketch comedy: https://modern.technology/breaks/
​​ Film nerdery: https://modern.technology/watches/
​ Self-naming stories: https://modern.technology/name/

I worked retail years ago. The general public didn't call today "Black Friday" then, that phrase was used behind the scenes by retail employees who were dreading their worst working day of the year. "Black Friday" was basically saying "we're doomed," it wasn't a HAPPY expression at all.

Later the marketing types got hold of the term, it began popping up in ads, and now the shopping hordes are all "yay Black Friday!"

It makes my retail-survivor heart sad every time an expression of pain coined by the overworked and underpaid is used to entice more shoppers.

Happy Turkey Day, folks!
#MST3K

* Issue 57, that is, not 58.

In issue 58 of "Vortex," the in-house magazine from #DoctorWhoَ audio-production company Big Finish, fourth Doctor Tom Baker was asked "What’s your one biggest 'Doctor Who' memory?" His response:

"I remember a man stopping me in Oxford Street once, looking at me with absolute incredulity; he couldn’t believe it. He said, ‘Tom Baker?’ A man in his late thirties. I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Tom Baker?’ I said, ‘Yes!’ And he looked at me and in his brain he catapulted back in time and he said, ‘You know, when I was a boy, I was in a home for children; nobody wanted us, you know? It was terrible. And you made Saturday night good.’ And I went to say something to him and I could see him so close to tears that he couldn’t speak. And he shook his head as if to say, ‘Don’t go on, don’t remind me’ and he just did [a thumbs up]. Such a common thing, isn’t it, but suddenly backed up with an expression on his face through his tears that was a knighthood. It was a knighthood. Just thumbs up, meaning it was great, and thanks. It’s incredible, isn’t it? Just a gesture."

Via: https://www.bigfinish.com/vortex/v/57
#DoctorWhoDay

Celebrating #DoctorWhoDay with Gila in a Seventh Doctor hat and Sixth Doctor shirt. (If and where we are wearing other Doctors will be left to your imagination.)

Make murder illegal again.

This is perhaps not surprising to anyone who knows me a little, but I'm freaking HERE for Peter Capaldi's album. https://monksroadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/st-christopher