Decided to write about some #memories about the #PSP, before I had my own!

This is post 16 for day 14 of #Blaugust2025

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/early-psp-memories

Throwback to an amazing road trip around Italy in 2022, and a behind-the-scenes shot of me in action among some overgrown ruins

Thanks for the #memories @defcon!!

#DEFCON33 #DC33 #SneakyBadge # irateSoftware

It pains me to remember how recently a powerful and beloved person could make such casually homophobic remarks and be met with laughter and applause — from a presumably liberal, cinephile audience.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/i-wonder-if-ernest-borgnine-ever-suspected-i-was-gay-26ce18610d79?sk=aa58f7437e2ea6adf06091264840beac

My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.

I came across this at a local Muscat supermarket for about Euro 2.

A simple motor kit with switch and light. All the components are the same as when I started playing with electronics as a child back in the 1960s.

Brings back memories I'd long forgotten about. Might remind a few others too.

Will I use the kit? No, I'll repack it and keep it safe. The memories are worth far more than the 900bz it cost me.

#Memories

Our family does a reunion every year. Last year one of my cousins had photos of the reunion turned into puzzles!

Really cool idea

#FlashbackFriday
Before covid arrived on the island, I saw/hung out with more old friends from my past sports media & event promotion work. I don't see them anymore. They are all too unsafe now.

Keith & I used to work together in the MMA/combat sports industry.

Another picture from a Khumbu camping trip in the high mountains. At camp he was always attached to a tie out lead. At 3000m as the sun set and the moon came out Khumbu continued his quest for mountain goats and foxes!

"Pure Nostalgia"
Teableau for 08/05/25

The china matches a teapot my mother gave me in middle school, but which I no longer have. I'm glad to have this set to remind me.

Awe this always brings a smile to my face. When Khumbu went camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains for 4 days in 2013, clever husky he was, sent this message :-
"Dear Hu'mum, having a good time. Saved everybody last night from a fox during a storm. In trouble today cos I ran away. Eating clients food. No more dog biscuits please. See you soon. Love Khumbu"
#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Husky #MountainMonday #Memories #Photography #MountainDog

What I was doing in 2014.

The Haberdashery of Imaginary Art: #308: Vague surrealism https://thehaberdasheryofimaginedart.blogspot.com/2025/07/308-vague-surrealism.html #art #surrealism #surrealist #dream #dreams #hgwells #waroftheworlds #childhoodmemory #memory #memories #conceptualart #imaginaryart

Mein Beitrag zum heutigen #Caturday zeigt ein Erinnerungsfoto von Puschel.
Sie ist in jungen Jahren irgendwann nicht mehr nach Hause gekommen.

There are heartbreaks so quiet they only echo when you remember.

What did the silence teach you, the day the bubbles stopped rising?

https://www.clickworlddaily.com/2025/07/bubbles-that-didnt-rise.html

#memories #childhood #quiet #firstloss #reflection

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