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@EclecticLee@digipres.club
2026-09-08 02:10:35

Found the 1982 Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog at my parents' today. For just $20,000, you could get the LaserTour by Perceptronics, a computerized system that lets you bicycle different routes via an exercise bike and laser disc player connected by a specialized computer.

The cover of the "Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book 1982" featuring cartoon art by DePaola of a line of people in medieval costumes and domino masks. The night sky above is filled with five-pointed stars and a line of angels with their backs turned. [Begin text in next photo because it won't all fit in its alt text.] HIS/HER GIFT 1982 Fitness can be a real trip, with the help of this year's His/Her Gift for Christmas 1982. Possibly the best inducement to exercise since the discovery of the mirro…
[Text started in previous photo because it wouldn't all fit in this time.] As you pedal off on the bicycle, you're plunged into a variety of locations and situations—projected from the laser video disc onto the large screen, eye level projector. The faster you pedal., the faster you whirl through the landscape. At intervals, road signs give you a choice of destinations at the push of a button on your cycle's handle. You can vary the same tour as the day's mood dictates. Glide down the beach bi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-09-01 22:15:38

Netflix strikes a multiyear distribution deal with EverPass to bring the streamer's NFL live events to commercial places like bars and restaurants in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv

Netflix Strikes Multi-Year NFL Content Deal With EverPass Media
The multi-year deal includes access to the streamer's first-ever Thanksgiving Eve game, two Christmas Day matchups and more.

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-07-22 04:06:41
Content warning: The War on Christmas

…was going poorly.
Spirit of Halloween was the victim of a hostile takeover by Marley Division's Ghosts of CP, and suddenly Lincoln's Thanksgiving Battalion, already practically overrun by the Yule forces, faced a second front at the rear.
The Black & Orange Irregulars could tell which way the wind was blowing and turned coat
But Christmas. Would. Not. Be. Appeased.
Only a united front at Labor Day could stop the inexorable Lebensraum Tannenbaum onslaught