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Watford was the first to discover that the crocheted coffee bean we got at a craft fair was a fun toy to carry. He still likes to show everyone that it was all his idea to begin with.

Watford is over twenty pounds of solid tough guy ragamuffin, but he thinks he’s a tiny kitten so he always chooses the littlest toys to bring us.

This is his little gingerbread man from last Christmas

Franklin enforces break time very seriously

We got these crocheted coffee beans at a craft fair, and they've become one of the kitties' favorite toys to hunt and carry ☕️

We call it his fluffy pickle but I don’t know what it’s actually supposed to be 🐱

Sega Dreamcast launched on 9/9/1999. I worked on the marketing campaign and helped design the SegaNet game network.

That 9/9/99 deadline was no joke! Talk about a deadline you absolutely could not let slip…

A polyphonic, analog-modeling or "virtual analog" synth introduced by Roland in 2002, a more affordable followup to their JP-8000 and JP-8080 analog-modeling synths.

It does not have a sequencer, but does have an arpeggiator / drum machine, and can be controlled by a MIDI keyboard or played standalone.

Okay, his version is a bit simplistic and wouldn't work exactly like that. But plenty of economists have proposed the idea of a debt jubilee. Post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen called it "quantitative easing for the public" in his article A Modern Debt Jubilee.

This beautiful lynx decided to just relax on our stoop for a while.

We kept our indoor flonkers away so they wouldn't get territorial and start peeing on things, haha.

But he was so pretty! He just looked around for a while, had a little rest, then went about the rest of his errands for the day.

Something about red & white grid patterns just works for me, every time.

A specialized CP/M computer engineered for use with Siemens S5 programmable logic controllers in the late 1980s, for things like automotive assembly lines, CNC machine tools, and processing plant monitoring panels.

Source: Vintage Computer Museum

A classroom trainer from Lab-Volt's FACET system: a 32-Bit Microprocessor board built round an Intel 80386DX at 25 MHz, with monitor and user ROM, an LCD and a hex keypad, seated on the Computer Interface Base Unit that powered it and let an instructor's PC insert faults by relay. 

A beautiful Italian chord organ from the 1970s. Its carrying case transforms into a base & stand. It's a transistor-based analog instrument with chord accompaniment buttons. Some versions also had a rhythm machine included.

Here's a couple videos of them in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htuD_4-s4U8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjvWIjFKks