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Gronk of Aquilonia, Barbarian Engineer
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Gronk like waste time designing computers and systems software. Gronk do this a long time, since almost before rocks.

Wheel good. Lever good. Inclined plane good. C++ not so good.
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A moonscape, with the text "SPACE:1999" in a futuristic font, slanted across the upper half of the picture. The lower half is an "Eagle" spaceship, a long boxy affair on four legs, with a nose cone on one end and rocket nozzles on the other.
May 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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giggle, the least appropriate cover art i've seen in a while . . .
We see the rear of a blue and white-striped American muscle car, driving down Route 66 in the midwest. Arid landscape and buttes in the background.
April 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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a movie poster for Captain Ron; kurt russell, martin short and other actors are smiling and laughing behind a ship's wheel, with a ocean, a beach and palm trees in the background
March 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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perhaps a reference to . . .
Cheech Wizard, being a floppy wizard's hat perched on a couple of legs
March 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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the cover of Douglas R. Hofstadter's book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid under the title is a sculpture with two free-floating pieces, they are illuminated from multiple directions and cast the letters G E on the right side and E G on the left, with B on the bottom
January 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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The letters D I C E in a sans-serif font, with the I being a block of ice, and the E having a little Arrakis in its middle cross-member
January 3, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Cover art for Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine. Behind the title text is a close-up of an integrated circuit.
December 25, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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December 25, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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The cover of the Promotional Edition (AKA "Phone Book") version of Inside Macintosh, showing a stylized original Mac with a wavy mouse and an apple logo
December 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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One book per day, no particular order, no explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1
A young man in a uniform is operating a complicated computerized mapping table on a starship's bridge. In the background, other crew are at control stations, and the stars are visible through a set of large windows.
December 13, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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This one is always worth going back to.
Sign amongst short blades of grass has a line of Chinese writing, and underneath in English "DO NOT DISTURB / TINY GRASS IS DREAMING".
July 5, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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Picture of Woody Allen in the movie Sleeper. He is posing as a (bad) imitation of a household robot in white facepaint, with a steel colander on his head, tin cups over his ears, and showerhead-like device clutched in his lips. Allen/robot is wearing Woody's black nylon-frame glasses.
June 16, 2024 at 2:54 AM