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Exit, pursued by a water bear

@perivaleyard / perivaleyard.tumblr.com

I came to Tumblr to follow and discuss with friends who have emigrated here from LJ and other sites, but it seems I am here to stay.

20 years ago, on October 25, 1993, I bought my first Mac. Even by the standards of the day, the Performa 400 (the consumer model of the LC II; the model name was the only difference) was overpriced and underpowered, but it was mine. It worked well for typing reports and essays and doing concordance searches in text corpuses, it could run simple games, and I loved it dearly. It was my main computer for over six years, and I still have it in my storage unit; it boots, but as I no longer have a working monitor for it (a standard VGA monitor doesn't work) I can't use it, which is rather a pity.

After some time, after reading an article in the Swedish edition of MacWorld and finding a copy of ResEdit, I started poking around inside the resource forks and slowly found out how things worked — knowledge that, together with my language skills, helped land me a job as an Apple localizer and translator years later. (I'm still in that business.) So, yeah, if I'd bought a PC instead I might not have been where I am now...

Apple Performa 400/LC II technical specifications:

  • CPU: Motorola 68030, 16 MHz
  • Hard disk: 80MB SCSI-II
  • Floppy: 1.44MB SuperDrive
  • RAM: 4MB

Gods, do I feel old now...

The source text is a brilliant, witty and catchy marketing slogan that took a team of highly paid copywriters several days to come up with.

The translation needs to be the same length, be equally catchy, preferrably keep the cultural allusions, and absolutely needs to be delivered in 30 minutes, and we only get paid the minimum fee—because the word count is only five words.

Oh, and please give us two or three alternative translations so our marketing director for the Nordic countries can pick the one he likes best.

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I think if it weren’t for the fact that he keeps trying to kill everyone, Tony and Loki would actually be BFF

Thor would be getting calls at five in the morning from Tony, saying things like ‘Somehow Loki and I are in Vegas in a car neither of us remembers buying, dressed up in buffalo costumes and we might have gotten married. We have no money and there’s a passed out lounge singer in the trunk of our car. Call Pepper, tell her to send cash’

And Thor would have to get them out of whatever trouble they’d gotten into in their wacky adventures

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haveahiddles

I would watch the shit out of that weekly sitcom.

Head canon accepted

Someone write me this, please.

I'd so watch or read that. <3

And yes, the outdoor scenes and the metro platforms were really shot in Stockholm on September 15. When I came into town a couple of hours later, the crew was just carting off the last of the camera equipment. (I live on the same tube line, even.)

Admittedly, they've sacrificed some accuracy for dramatic impact. The interior of a C20 car looks like this:;

...but of course that would have made it harder for the action to work.

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gallifrey-feels

"Mostly void, partially stars"

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thezydratezombie

ARE THESE MOTHER FUCKING NIGHT VALE NAILS?!?!

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supermattural

yo im a dude and even i want this 

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aiden-nightmare

That last comment

Oh my god, it's full of stars...