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Nathan Pryor

@nathanpryor.bsky.social

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Designer, programmer, husband, dad, tinkerer, crafter, maker and take-aparter. I like (in order): planes, maps, dogs, vintage computers, people. Creator of Tetris Jack-o-Lantern, chainsaw clarinet, sidewalk Spirograph, and more. IG: hahabirddesign

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! That was the best selling board of the weekend. Lots of kids asking “what is it?” but even more older folks with “is that—OMG I need it!”

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks! I love being able to combine these two hobbies. And they’re functional—meant as serving boards!

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · 10d

Couldn’t make it to the march today because I had a booth at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, but still got a protest sign in on my table.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · 23d

Ported some classic programs to the Switch to help model the NES-cart-shaped game holder I made. Catch my booth at Portland Retro Gaming Expo in two weeks for this and other finely crafted retro-gaming goodies.

Mockups of classic programs as if they were Nintendo Switch cartridges: Print Shop, ET, Bard’s Tale, MS Flight Simulator, Lotus 123, & VisiCalc. They rest scattered on a walnut NES cartridge.

Mockups of classic programs as if they were Nintendo Switch cartridges: Print Shop, ET, Bard’s Tale, MS Flight Simulator, Lotus 123, & VisiCalc. They’re inserted neatly into storage slots on a walnut NES cartridge.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jul 10

This’ll be my first time going. Are tickets limited, or can I wait until closer to the event (or even on site) when I figure out which day(s) I’ll be attending?

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · May 9

My favorite was during Covid when they’d send very earnest and heartfelt emails about how we can get through these trying times together.

I ordered a serial port adapter from you 13 years ago, but thanks I guess. Glad you’ve got my back.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Apr 29

“Moof!”

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Feb 25

Installed a BlueSCSI drive to bring my NeXTstation back to life for the first time in 18 years. Next step (pun intended): install the Y2K patch so I can set the date.

The motherboard of a vintage NeXTstation computer, showing the replacement of the hard drive with a BlueSCSI module using an SD card for storage.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 22

I know the meme is like 10+ years old but I had the idea the other night while listening and had to make this in honor of my favorite Hold Steady song.

#theholdsteady
#constructivesummer

Black t-shirt with white text reading “Love & Trust & Friends & Hammers”

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 21

Infrastructure weekend! Freezing weather had me shutting off the water to an outdoor hose bibb, only for the valve to start leaking. I replaced it with a fancy new quarter-turn valve.

Can I get some points for the laser-engraved sign, too? Other people in this house need to know how it all works.

A blue-gloved hand holds an old plumbing valve next to the newly installed one that replaced it. A small sign labeled “outdoor faucet shutoff” is on the wall above the valve.

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Sophie @sophiefrommars.bsky.social · Jan 20

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft takes the clearest picture of Venus ever made

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 20

But if anyone needs a white elephant gag gift for next Christmas, I’ll let you know where to find it.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 20

Some things SHOULD NOT be returnable. 🤮

(found at the local Amazon bins store)

Cardboard box labeled “44lb half body sex doll for male, retail $368 now $80”

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 18

That’s assumed. This is in addition.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 18

Heck, I’ve done half of those in the last year.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 18

Emergency go-bag tip: keep an assortment of USB adapters in it. The motel you end up in might have chargers built into the bedside lamp, but you only grabbed your USB-C cable and they last updated in 2010. Or how about the micro-USB charging for your headlamp?

#emergencyprep #gobag

A black mesh bag approximately 2 x 3 inches containing an assortment of a half-dozen USB adapters. USB-A to USB-C, micro-USB to USB-A, USB-C to Lightning, etc.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 12

Turns out I’m in the top 25% of wildfire risk in the state, so if you all could not set the forest on fire, that’d be cool.

Oregon peeps, check your own wildfire risk here:

oregon-explorer.apps.geocortex.com/webviewer/?a...

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 12

There’s a Dash 8 tanker? I thought someone was Photoshopping the first time I saw this.

Are there any planes that *haven’t* been converted yet?

www.planespotters.net/photo/167636...

N989AC Aero-Flite Aerial Firefighting Bombardier DHC-8-402Q AT Dash 8

N989AC Aero-Flite Aerial Firefighting Bombardier DHC-8-402Q AT Dash 8 photographed by Hongming Zheng

www.planespotters.net

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 10

Time to find myself a new system. I’ve heard good things about the 386 processor.

Vintage copy of Computer Shopper magazine from 1991, featuring a 386 system on the cover, advertising articles about desktop publishing, how to turbo-charge your PC, Dell’s new notebooks, and a guide to 786 printers.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 9

What the world needs now is a new air tanker movie (but without all the mystical ghost stuff in “Always”)

Big-screen treeline passes straight into my veins, please.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 9

“I don’t know what happened,dad. I was just sitting here and the tennis ball exploded.”

#corgi

Piper the corgi sits giving sad puppy eyes on the couch next to the destroyed remains of her new tennis ball.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 9

Silly me still writing “2024” in my SQL queries.

Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 8

He had to retune, I got a good story and a small bruise out of it.

“Hit me over the head” might be a *slight* embellishment, but he was a storyteller, too, so I’m sure he’d forgive the dramatic license.

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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 8

I was working AV at a corporate event 20+ years ago where Peter was playing and giving a motivational talk. We were both in the crowded backstage, when he turned around quickly with his guitar and in doing so accidentally clobbered me right in the forehead with the head of the guitar.
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Nathan Pryor @nathanpryor.bsky.social · Jan 8

Playing two truths and a lie, one of my go-tos is always “Peter from Peter, Paul, and Mary hit me over the head with his guitar.”

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CNN @cnn.com · Jan 7

Peter Yarrow, singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at 86. cnn.it/4gGn8Pp

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