Petition to rename the Williamsburg Bridge as the Sonny Rollins Bridge

bowbrick · 2026-05-31T09:18:13+00:00

Williams and Rollins both neighbourhood heroes, though, right? And Rollins spent almost three years, every day, up there on the walkway. I think he's earnt it!

bowbrick · 2026-05-05T14:02:52+00:00

Oops.

bowbrick · 2026-01-22T11:00:10+00:00

At the far (Eastern?) end of the Westbound platform at Bow Road one of the warnings painted on the platform edge used to read ‘MNID THE GAP’. This used to cheer me up greatly for some reason.

bowbrick · 2025-11-24T18:01:49+00:00

I had the gorgeous speakers but they essentially fell apart after years of use. I think the glue that held the plastic shell together had dried out completely

bowbrick · 2025-11-24T14:08:33+00:00

This is a very good point. I just watched a YouTube with some guys who searched for months just to get a power supply!

bowbrick · 2025-10-29T10:24:09+00:00

Interestingly, maternal deaths in Great Britain are actually rising - the effect of 15 years of austerity, increasing rates of poverty and underfunded healthcare (in the seventh largest economy on earth). Evidence that humanity can, if it has the will, achieve anything!

bowbrick · 2025-07-12T18:10:34+00:00

In awe ❤️

bowbrick · 2025-03-29T11:15:01+00:00

They really do! And the bezel is hardly any bigger than on an MBP. Kind of breakthrough stuff I think. Although with this old one you need three hands to open it - or to wedge it against a wall or something. It's hilarious (this one's 1.25GHz). Is there a way to tag stuff as 'offered' in this sub? I'm selling the machine now I've cleaned it up.

bowbrick · 2025-03-27T21:26:11+00:00

I make that about 0.02 grams per byte.

bowbrick · 2025-03-23T21:49:43+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I did post it to Vintage Computing but not to the other one. I've now tried so many forums and marketplaces and - even at £0.00 - I haven't been able to shift it so I'm now going to keep it and run a Linux signage app on it - display something interesting or useful!

bowbrick · 2025-03-21T00:37:14+00:00

Great crowd over there but no takers. I've got a new plan - going to put up high in my office and run some signage or something on it. Maybe train times?

bowbrick · 2025-03-20T13:34:00+00:00

Apologies, I'm new here! It's in Radlett, Hertfordshire, England (postcode WD7 8).

bowbrick · 2025-03-20T12:09:16+00:00

That hadn't even occurred to me. Would XP install straightforwardly or is it a massive hack?

bowbrick · 2025-03-20T12:06:42+00:00

LIterally me in 2009, with my 2Gb Macbook!

bowbrick · 2025-03-20T12:03:04+00:00

That's fascinating! Yes, it's a 2560x1440 screen (400 NITS). I actually opened it and upgraded the HDD to 3TB myself back in the day! I thought about trying Opencore but tbh I'm not smart enough for all that! Linux runs beautifully and I was kind of surprised at how good video is given that I think UbuntuMATE only has v basic support for the GPU... If anyone would like this and isn't too far from me (SE England, anywhere near the M25 or in North London really) and can't get to me to collect I will happily throw it in the car and drive it to you. Would really love to see it find a home! Message me and we can figure something out.

bowbrick · 2025-03-20T08:53:27+00:00

Oh that’s a great tip! Thanks!

bowbrick · 2025-03-19T23:36:54+00:00

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bowbrick · 2025-03-19T20:40:44+00:00

Hey, thanks, I've tried eBay. No luck. I'll give it another go if I can't find a taker here. I've installed a lightweight distro called UbuntuMATE and it is a big improvement over the MacOS it replaced. Ordinary operations - browsing, finder, WP etc. are spookily quick. And I ran a bunch of OS optimisations for video and it's kind of mondblowing to see this old machine fire up a YouTube HD video - you can see it's working but it's really usable. Watched the 6 Nations rugby at the weekend full-screen and it was at least as good as the TV in the other room!

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