Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

vendo: I sell
Minimus is busy in his pistrina (bakery). He has crustum (pie), panicelli (rolls) and bucellatum (army biscuits) for sale, and of course panis (bread). quanti hoc constat? (how much is it?)
#LatinVerbs

Follow me so you always have a post in your timeline you can look at and go "Well at least I'm smarter than that guy"

Doorkijkkerk (See-through church), also known as "Reading between the lines". By architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, 2011. Borgloon, Belgium.
Photo: Stefano Perego.

#belgium #church #architect #art #MastoArt #contemporaryart

When you live in #SanFrancisco, you are required to take a picture like this. It's the law.

#photography

I’ve always liked hooded sweatshirts and the color blue. When I was young my parents went to a tourist attraction where the buildings you went in defied gravity. It made you look like you were leaning way back without falling when you were standing upright. I took this image and quadrupled it a few years ago. Would be strange to have three other identical brothers. Fortunately for the world there is only one of me. #ThrowBackThursday

seven months after Kent State

before we got into the citycenter of Labé and its lively, bustling, colorful and noisy marketplace we treated ourselves with a 'café noir' in one of the typical wooden coffee or foodstalls.

can you spot marc in the fourth picture?

#cycling #BikeTooter
#coffee #cafénoir #marketplace
#labé #guinea #africa

Flying A Gasoline, #ColdSpring, #NewYork

I came across these old pumps on the way to upstate apple orchards one September. They remind me road trips with my parents.

///gifted.pistons.detractors [what3words]

#Photography #Picture #OAA #AYearForArt #MastoArt #Cityscape #CanonG10 #WindowFriday #Freitagfenster #Friday #urbex

A rainy night in #Edinburgh - both of my visits to Edinburgh were in winter and the esplanade in front of the castle entrance was a favorite haunt.

#DigitalArt #Painting #EdinburghCastle #Castle #rain #RainArt #Reflections #Atmosphere #BritishArt #Scotland #Scottish #ScottishArt #Britain #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #MarkOnArt

See it here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/edinburgh-castle-in-the-rain-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

Those eyelashes! That face! And a nose worth booping!
Photo by Lacee Johnson of Bluemoosephotography89
#Alaska #Moosetodon

Happy birthday to one of greatest #mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether's theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem &…

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #physics #mathematics #histstm #WomenInSTEM #Noethember #womensHistoryMonth

Women weren't allowed into Princeton's graduate astronomy program when Vera Rubin applied in 1948, so she attended Cornell instead.

Her groundbreaking work on galaxy rotation rates provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter, a seminal breakthrough that led to the creation of a whole new field of astronomy.

Initially criticized for her theories, she was eventually awarded the National Medal of Science.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/07/23/vera-rubin-berkeley-commencement-address/

#WomensHistoryMonth

photo: Carnegie Institute

Here's a quick post about the practice of media archaeology and a piece of the history of a prominent #BBS.

The @mediaarchaeologylab has a box that was donated that used to be the controller for a BBS called The Thing. It ran DOS and had a physical telephone line adapter called an IPAD (not to be confused with the Apple device) that allowed up to 16 people at a time to dial in to the BBS, which was running a commercial BBS software called TBBS.

This BBS was and still remains an important piece of the history of BBSes, because it was mainly populated by artists based in New York in the late 90s. There is still a website (https://thing.net/) though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.

I've been trying to get this box online for a while - since the Before Times - but the hard drive (a whopping 425MB) has been...uncooperative. I've previously tried to use a number of IDE interface tools to mount the drive or image it, but the platters seem not to like it very much.

Well, yesterday I brought in a device that I've owned for years but never used. It's called a Logicube Forensic MD5. It's a standalone device designed to create forensically-valid clones of hard drives and their files for law enforcement investigators that they can use to demonstrate chain of custody. This model was designed for IDE/ATA hard drives, the generation this DOS box used. I've had it in a storage closet for going on 20 years and decided to bust it out.

And you know what? This thing WORKS GREAT. It made a drive image using onboard dd which I was able to mount in other tools. It did this in minutes. From what it looks like, the entire filesystem is intact. Not only was it loaded with an unreleased beta version of the IPAD software, it seems to have a lot of BBS files stored on it that bear scrutiny. The system seems to have last booted up in 1998, so many of these files haven't seen the light of day in nearly a quarter century.

And now...the real work begins on looking through those files to see what we can learn about this important piece of history.

#mediaarchaeology #forensics #DFIR #Logicube #eSoft

Just want to gloat about my instinctive dislike of the Little House on the Prairie books even as a young child, foreshadowing an adulthood in which I continue to always be right

https://lithub.com/little-house-of-propaganda-homesteading-myths-and-the-sentimentality-of-self-reliance/

I have to do a filmed interview (very short) next week. Has anyone any tips on how not to be utterly wooden in front of a lens? It is all nerves, I know, but I feel like I'm so stilted on camera.

Here is a color wheel I spent a month french knotting to see if I could. It was very satisfying as it involved not only play with color and thread but so much stabbing things with sharp pointy objects in the name of #art

#Embroidery

🖌️ Artist: #TVBOY (Salvatore Benintende) in City: sorry, unknown, Italy 🇮🇹 - Title: "Tanti auguri ai miei due papà !" (Best wishes to my two dads ! / Herzlichen Glückwunsch an meine beiden Väter!") - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Lgbtq #Papa #Fathers
#Festadelpapà #Childhood

An excellent hotel keycard (click for full image).