dbooster in #hive-184309 • 7 hours agoI Hunger! Sinistar and the Birth of Talking Arcade TerrorsBack in the early 1980s, arcade cabinets started to evolve. Graphics sharpened. Music shifted from bleeps to catchy chip-tunes. And tdbooster in #hive-180658 • yesterdayWalking Liberty: The Design That Defined American SilverThe Walking Liberty design might be the most beloved piece of American coin art. Ask any silver stacker or coin collector, and there’s a good chance it tops their list.dbooster in #hive-126152 • 2 days agoInstant Karma and the Fountain PenA few days ago, I got a little reminder from the universe. I’ve been using fountain pens for years. Decades, even. Filling themdbooster in #hive-193212 • 3 days agoWhen We Was Magic GumpGreetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post. As always, thanks tdbooster in #hive-111011 • 4 days agoMy Hive Goals for 25 August 2025Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoalsdbooster in #hive-196233 • 5 days agoAnything I Don't Like is WokeIf you follow US news, you may have heard that Cracker Barrel has a new logo. Why is this newsworthy…? Well, we’ll come to that. But first, here:dbooster in #hive-106316 • 6 days agoHow Much Time Do You Use Your SmartphoneI was reading the news and a story about smartphone usage limits has showed up in a few places. It's a ridiculous idea, that Toyoake sits in Aichi Prefecture will restrict all…dbooster in #hive-148441 • 7 days agoReading the Great Wave DifferentlyIn my last post yesterday, I looked at Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa in broad strokes: its history, technique, and meaning. Today, let’s take a step deeper into how this…dbooster in #hive-193212 • 8 days agoHokusai’s Great Wave: More Than Just a Meme It's no secret that I love Japanese woodblock prints. I usually include them in my haiku posts and even in some of my other posts. There is something very striking about even the…dbooster in #hive-196233 • 9 days agoCan You Separate the Art from the Artist?It’s one of those questions that seems to have no clean answer, and yet it won’t go away: When someone’s personal behavior turnsdbooster in #hive-193212 • 10 days agoFrom Soul to Satire: Three Wild Covers (and Weird Al)Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let’s go into another Three Tune Tuesday post. As always, thanksdbooster in #hive-121744 • 12 days agoMovies That Age Like Fine Wine: Falling Down, Office Space, and NetworkSome films fade into irrelevance, relics of their era. Others, strangely enough, seem to ripen with time. Their commentary, once sharp, only gets sharper.dbooster in #hive-180658 • 13 days agoThe Gold ¥1 Coin: A Tiny Fortune in Your PocketJapan’s ¥1 coin is best known today as a feather-light alumin(i)um piece you can balance on a soap bubble. But in the late 19thdbooster in #hive-193212 • 14 days agoAugust 15 in Japan: From Surrender to the Kamikaze WindsOn this day in Japan’s history, two events centuries apart left an indelible mark on the nation’s identity. The more recent is, of course, August 15, 1945 — when the Shōwa Emperor, Hdbooster in #hive-161465 • 15 days agoAwake Too ~ Original HaikuLast night I was nursing a drink after everyone had gone to bed, listening with the window open to the night music. I jotted this down: awake and listening to the night insects they’re awake toodbooster in #hive-196233 • 16 days agoPutting the oh in ouI have a problem. Being of two worlds — the Japanese and the English — I am keenly aware of mispronunciations of Japanese words in the Angdbooster in #hive-193212 • 17 days agoMystic Blue: A Three-Tune Journey through DreamworldsSometimes, three songs surface at once, tangled in the same corner of memory. That happened today. It started with a strange craving to hear Desert Rose again—the haunting duet…dbooster in #hive-111011 • 18 days agoMy Hive Goals for 11 August 2025Hello all! Another week and it’s time again to do another #myhivegoalsdbooster in #hive-148441 • 19 days agoBlogging at MediumI’ve saved up a lot of memes so I was going to go with a meme post today, but I’m calling an audible because my mind is on Medium. <dbooster in #hive-193212 • 20 days agoBillions and BillionsYou may know this trivia. One billion has two different meanings. It can mean: One million million, i.e. 1,000,000,000,000 One thousa