Unfinished Business (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: Four open stories over breakfast, and for now the wire has nothing new on any of them.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for Unfinished Business, our open stories. Second coffee in, four threads on the table, and a very clean tablecloth. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Thread one, day 5: the Retrocomputing Challenge. Hackaday showed serial data, then a credit card reader in space, then a custom RISC-V processor. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A new brain for an old machine. Lovely. Does the cloud know about this? Greta, has anything happened since? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Our wire has nothing new on it yet. The story stays open. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Thread two, day 19: GameStar reports Netflix wanted to save money on One Piece, and the creator pushed back. Not what they had imagined. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Good for them. I once pushed back on the 1987 weather map. It stayed. Nothing new there, I assume? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Correct. PXL's wire has nothing new on this yet, so it stays open. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Thread three, day 17. io9 at Gizmodo says Jennifer Lawrence confirms her Hunger Games return. Such a hungry game. I'm told it's a film. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: It is a film franchise, Grant. Nothing new on our wire yet. The story stays open. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Thread four, day 20: GamePro says the Elden Ring film will probably run three hours, with nobody told a thing about the story. Nothing new yet. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Three hours and no spoilers. I'll bring the thermos. Dozer would approve. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: That's the open stories. All four stay open, and the coffee is still warm. ▶