Claude Trudel
@cltr@jasette.facil.services  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Nouvelle exposition au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, dès le 13 septembre 2025 : De l’utile au sublime, 600 ans d’arts décoratifs et de design
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/fr/expositions/de-lutile-au-sublime-600-ans-darts-decoratifs-et-de-design/
#MBAM #art #culture #exposition#Montréal#Québec#Canada #design #artsdécoratifs #expo
Claude Trudel
@cltr@jasette.facil.services  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Nouvelle exposition au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, dès le 13 septembre 2025 : De l’utile au sublime, 600 ans d’arts décoratifs et de design
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/fr/expositions/de-lutile-au-sublime-600-ans-darts-decoratifs-et-de-design/
#MBAM #art #culture #exposition#Montréal#Québec#Canada #design #artsdécoratifs #expo
vga256
@vga256@dialup.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

some of you know that i wrote a book - "Mages & Modems" - soon to be published, about my experiences growing up in the 80s and 90s with microcomputers in northern canada.

back in 95-97, as a teenager, i worked at the arctic's first ISP. but before it became an isp, ssi micro was canada's only Gateway 2000 computer retailer.

a village of less than 500 people housed a massive 40,000 sq ft computer store.

i've been searching for photos of the old computer store, before it disappeared in the 2000s. the search has been fruitless for twenty years, until today.

today i found the one surviving photo of the store EXACTLY as it was the day i left it to go to university when i was 17 years old.

an annotated version of this photo will appear in the book. the photo is painfully low-res (digital cameras were VERY new in 97), but you can make out some of the details if you squint.

a few fun things: the cowprint sweaters in the center of the photo are official Gateway 2000 gear. i don't remember us selling a single one to a customer 😅

directly behind the sweaters are slatwall shelves (every computer store had 'em!) full of games. my big box copy of Dune CD-ROM - the one with the incredible sandworm mouth - came from that shelf

to the right of the sweaters and main entrance, along the shelves, are dozens of ISA and PCI upgrade cards. whenever a customer made a custom order, i'd walk over from the service bay, grab the upgrade card, and stick it in their machine. it was always exciting to get to test new weird stuff like SCSI and video capture boards.

the computer on the far right was supposed to be for customers to test out software and our internet service. i never once saw a customer use it, but i sure as hell got a lot of Quake DMing done on that machine 😆 it was a Gateway 2000 full tower with a Pentium 90. the fastest machine in the building.

i was a repair/ISP technician in those days, and my little service bay was beyond the wooden birch-coloured doorway. that room also housed our local dial-in lines (four of them!) and 33.6 Sportsters.

if you're interested in reading the book, i'll be posting about it more in the coming weeks. i've got a few review copies out, and once i've had more feedback and (made some edits) it'll be ready to go.

if you can identify some of the software or hardware in the photos, i'll be happy to include it in the annotated version with credit :)

#1990s#retroComputing #books#dosGaming
vga256
@vga256@dialup.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

a painful followup to the post showing my old computer store in 1997 - it is currently under evac due to a massive wildfire 2km north of the building.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fort-prov-evac-1.7622251

there is a very wide firebreak east of the townsite that the article doesn't mention. unfortunately, given high northerly winds, this might not matter much. those embers easily carry hundreds of meters.

godspeed my fort prov friends. we made a lot of memories in that building. :

#canada #wildfire
Stones of David
@SANKOFAB@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Update: The top Israeli intel official serial pedophile rapist who was caught red-handed in a FBI sting operation and then with a phone call from Israel was released and fled there, did not attend his scheduled court hearing today. Instead he's back to freely raping in Tel Aviv

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1961237107680448698

#StreetJustice

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen@a.gup.pe.social #SettlerColonialism#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa
Stones of David
@SANKOFAB@zirk.us  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Update: The top Israeli intel official serial pedophile rapist who was caught red-handed in a FBI sting operation and then with a phone call from Israel was released and fled there, did not attend his scheduled court hearing today. Instead he's back to freely raping in Tel Aviv

https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1961237107680448698

#StreetJustice

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen@a.gup.pe.social #SettlerColonialism#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa