Hal O'Brien 🇺🇸🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴‍☠️

So many neurons, so little time.

Lost apples

Posted on 2023-09-15 by Hal

This sounds like a very interesting project:

“If you have old apple trees in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon, we want your apples! We look for apple trees planted prior to 1920 and the older the better. If you mail us your apples we will try to identify what varieties you send us. Send an email to rebeccajmcgee@icloud.com or dbens23@gmail.com and we can send you instructions on picking and mailing the apples. Thank you!”

There’s both a Wikipedia page and a Facebook page, but, oddly, no page of their own.

Old tin boxes

Posted on 2023-09-10 by Hal

One of the most lovely pieces of snark, and/or early example of an Easter egg on an album cover. This is TUBULAR BELLS by Mike Oldfield (1973), and faintly printed in the lower left corner we find:

“This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it in to the nearest police station.”

(I write this to put it on the web. If Google is to be believed, no one else has written about it.)