My Holy Crap!

It's all about the stuff I love religiously: Music, movies, retrogaming, toys – and, yet again, music. For anything less important please follow me @UweSpiller.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Quincy Jones was a trailblazer.

As a composer, arranger, record and movie producer, he created art that brought joy to millions of people. As an activist, Quincy championed civil and human rights. As a role model, he offered inspiration and mentorship, in particular for young people of color in the music industry.

I was honored to call Quincy a friend, and I will always remember his generosity of spirit, his selfless support, and his deep kindness.

Doug and I are praying for the Jones family and all those who loved him.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Antoine Moses, a tree planter from Canada set a new world record by planting 23,060 trees in 24 hours. He’s a real environmentalist, rather than those who spill milk in supermarkets, spray paintings or plaster mass-scale solar panels on prime farmland.

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@retroist Wow, this is, like, advertising 101. Absolutely brilliant (and mouth-watering, even though I'm a vegetarian).

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@retroist "Won't absorb fats or oils" -- oh, all that hard-hitting science!

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@MikeJMika I'm a bit worried that in a nearer future posts like this aren't working with an audience on social media -- both due to lower age and common knowledge -- without adding a caption.

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@retroist That hand model (and the art director probably as well) missed their lesson on properly holding CDs when putting it on the drawer. #HairRaising

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@analogue Now I'm really glad I didn't call off the 5 p.m. afternoon tea with my mum ... -- only to spent two entirely unnerving and pointless minutes in front of a screen.

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@QuickPaw @analogue Just had a similar idea that some of those GITD casings might have "accidently" fallen of that Chinese production line ...

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@GrapeadeFade Watching that movie for the first time (at home), it was around the 45 minutes mark when I began thinking:

Pleeeaaase let that DVD never end.

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@BillyChaser You're 100 % right. I tend to have a sentimental breakdown whenever -- in a movie on TV-- I see someone using a landline phone.

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@retroist Oh boy, you can’t go wrong with an ad visual that involves a nifty Minox (model B) camera.

(On the other hand: “Hey, let’s build a recorder for micro cassettes and make it clunky as hell!”)

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Okay, the @RollingStone best singers of all time list was created being collectively on drugs or something else.
Jeez.

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@ubersaurus In your 1981 video game recap you briefly mention the brand Imagic, saying [eyemagic].

Please don’t.

The name was made up merging “imagine”+“magic”, thus the pronunciation [eeemagic].

(Sadly, in generations raised on Apple’s marketing this clever construct doesn’t catch on.)

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@GamingHistorian Watched it last night. You couldn't have made me any happier. Thank you, Norman!

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@MikeJMika Genius. Genius?

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@MetalJesusRocks In fact, some of them already are. At least their PAL versions.

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@retroist Wow, that ad design is so easy to do nowadays. Back in the 80s, without computers, this was a true and unique specialist’s craft.

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@gamespite Oh, my! I'd like to get that exclusively for the decent (?) Amidar port.

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@MetalJesusRocks Even though noone is calling: Absolutely* yes!

*what a shame that most land lines are VoIP-based now.

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