#macman

[moodmoodthecrabking]

t4t gay john macnamara x bi howie goodman pride moodboard requested by @tnoy-keraxis

[dailyhatchetfield]

ummm Howard, John, Xander and Wilbur <3 the worlds worst combination of one tired general, his husband, their shared boyfriend and then his and said boyfriends other boyfriend that hates his husband <3 bonus points for Xander and wilbur trying to kill each other <3

day 78 - may @hatchetfield-rarepair-week day five; fancy dinner

[warriorblood1]

hi i liked your fic on ao3 youre a good writer i 👍👍👍👍 los tin saus

lmao thank you, i was so embarassed writing it but im trying to cringe over myself less and honestly i really like it uwu. i hope to write more goodnamara, mayhaps even soon.... (looks at the hatchetfield bang)

[ca-dmv-bot]

Customer: MY NAME IS MAC. WANTED MACMAN OR MACAMAN BUT BOTH WERE TAKEN SO ILL USE A 7 IN THERE DMV: MAC CAN BE ANOTHER WORD FOR A PIMP Verdict: ACCEPTED

[isabelopaque]

hi. kicks the ground a little. maybe even roots my foot through some dirt like a horse

resident macman here.

joymac early teenage years. thinking about it. okay?

how early on do you think joyces sisters were harassing them for being fags? how do you think they coped? what about school stuff? when does mac learn shame about loving his best friend so much. how does it affect joyce immediately+long term?

and i also want your thoughts about dennis joining the group and how it affected joymac (mostly joyce.) growing up n stuff

sorry. these r things ive been wanting to ask you for a while. take your time to respond to this one, no pressure. im just eager to hear ur thoughts on so much of this ...... feel free to link other posts instead ill read those up too

GRABS YOU LIKE THIS.

you'll never guess what I've been thinking about crazily for the last week. Thank you so much for letting me talk about this. Putting this under readmore because it got. Ridiculously long. Im so sorry

if i think too hard about early highschool years joyce i get so sad and insane. theres just something so tragic about that space in between childhood and the loss of that innocence.

the kelly sisters are probably around half the age of joyce so i think their maturity hitting right as joyce was going into highschool was kind of the perfect storm in a really awful way. i dont think they were ever close with joyce, and its not like they had family dinners or anything but i dont think they were always quite so malicious? i think they messed with her but weren't quite so. much. before their tween/teenager years, mostly just leaving her out of activities and such.

i think middle school was Bad for joymac. realllll bad. it's always the worst for everyone but it's sort of that age in 7-8th grade when you're not supposed to be that close to people you arent dating, and romance becomes important. i think for a long time mac still protected her and stuck hip to hip with her, and she never really cared about what people thought but she still could tell people judged them and didnt like it, but didnt fully internalize it like mac did.

going into highschool i think was a turning point for their friendship, a kind of dynamic switch as mac tries to add being Cool into his personality separating himself from her in that way. he's hitting that point where he's really free falling into his internalized homophobia and it's affecting his relationships. he's still close and touchy and dependent with her in private but its much harder for him to do in public, which I'd think makes her pull away in turn because that hurts y'know? people being ashamed to be her friend when she's already dealing with straight up bullying in school just feels like punching down when she's already stuck.

dennis joining their friend group is Awkward at first. its weird. i think he first meets them awkwardly trying to get weed or running into them somehow, and slowly weaves his way into their lives and it's hard for all of them in different ways? mac is overjoyed theres a cooler person in their friend group but is still closed off in a way that kind of pisses dennis off, but joyce is so open and non judgemental that dennis doesnt know what to Do with it. i think undeniably joyce is jealous as hell because in his attempt to be badass he just switches his codependency from joyce to dennis and doesn't recognize it. slowly the three of them become less of joymac or macden and just the gang, ronnie the rat dirtgrug and the golden god smoking awful weed under the bleachers but it takes work to get there. where joymac are soulmates in some way whether they want to or not, macden are connected in some fucked up way with secret whispers and linked fingers in the dark, and joyden are purposeful connection - putting effort into being kind to one another in a way neither of them normally do.

i think joyce doesn't know what to do with herself in highschool, kind of floating aimlessly during the day, eating whatever spider adriano hands her, waiting til the sun sets to hold macs hand and have him help with the homework she can't figure out how to read. in that space i think she latches onto the reynolds twins in a weird way none of them know exactly what to do with. dee and him chat awkwardly while macden are in the room alone talking in hushed tones and blushing, they sit together a kind of weird girls connection neither of them ever particularly wanted, but a connection both of them needed if that makes sense? they arent Best Friends like the others but they have some sort of understanding of their mutual ostracization from the world. mac was always there for joyce no matter what but i dont think he particularly understood some of what was happening? he knew it was bad but they were little kids with terrible guardians, but i think dennis was the first person to recognize what was really happening with joyce and uncle jack and have a like. genuine connection over that trauma no one else fully Gets, mirrors of each other in an awful way.

i think over time long term mac gets over some of his hangups, especially after graduation when the twins leave for college and its just joymac against the world again but joyce never quite is as open as when they were kids until later on. i think it takes a while to build back up the comfort levels but no matter what mac is always joyces best friend, she's just not sure she's his for a long time in those growing years and she harbors, not resentment because she could never ever hate him, but a sort of deep sadness over it. in my mind especially post him coming out and Especially her coming out they're more comfortable holding hands in public and laying on one bed together again but for a long time i think theres a sort of mutual sadness of them not being able to have what they had as little kids with no one judging them

[mentality-of-wukong-au]

MacDonald's, Mac and cheese, Mac a doodle donkey, Mac attack, Mackers, Macman >:3

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Truman's Name

So I was today years old when I realized that Truman's name is a pun.

She's truly a MacMahon, after all. And MacMahon is pronounced "MacMan."

God, everything about this character is so well set-up.

[waffleston]

Connecting a Modern MIDI Keyboard to an Apple IIGS

I love connecting MIDI keyboards to old computers. This is pretty straightforward for the Apple IIGS. GS/OS System 6.0.4 comes with synthLAB, a MIDI sequencer and synthesizer. After some trial and error attempts at diy-ing a serial based midi connection, I quickly came to the realization that the Apple MIDI driver works over the RS-422 connection. This schematic shows a basic MIDI to RS-422 setup, which could be a totally valid approach to solving this. We could also take the approach of looking for time-period-accurate MIDI interfaces. I found an article from 1997 that identifies some possibly compatible MIDI interfaces. This worked as a great starting point. Most of these interfaces are listed for absurd prices on eBay, but I did manage to get a Midiman Macman for ~$20. You can connect it to your printer port or your modem port, but the default in System 6.0.4 is printer - best not to have to fiddle with configuration menus.

(The PCB in case you're curious.)

Cool, we've taken care of the Apple IIGS side of things. But I don't own a synth keyboard with actual midi ports - everything's USB these days. For that, I dug out something I knew my parents had given to me over a decade ago, an M-Audio Midisport 1x1; A cheap USB to MIDI adapter. It looks like it's no longer for sale, but the M-Audio Midisport Uno looks comparable, listed at ~$30 on Amazon. Two regular midi cables later, and we have the MIDI-Out on the Minimac connected to the MIDI-In on the Midisport, and the MIDI-In on the Minimac to the MIDI-Out on the Midisport. We have all the hardware we need now!

Fantastic, but how do we actually send the midi keyboard's stuff to the Midisport? For that we'll be using the wonderful and fantastic MIDI-OX. Open up the MIDI Devices window by clicking on the icon that looks like a MIDI port; select your MIDI keyboard in the MIDI-IN pane, then select the Midisport in the MIDI-OUT pane (listed as MS1x1 for me). Click on Okay and you're done!

Neat, but how do I get my IIGS to receive the MIDI? After you've opened synthLAB, go up to the "Setup" menu at the top and select "MIDI…". Then click on the button that shows an arrow pointing to the IIGS. The default instrument is a drumkit, so maybe also go over the the "Instrument" menu and pick a different instrument. That should be it! Enjoy using your modern MIDI keyboard with a ~35 year old computer!

Here are some references:

synthLAB User Manual

GSOS System 6.0.4 disks and info

[ericvanderburg]

MacMan: Your Handbook to Transitioning From Windows to Mac as a Developer [Part 1]

http://dlvr.it/SwBqXV

[toute-mains]

Merci macman

[violent-backed-starling]

Howard: Why are you covered in blood?

McNamara: Oh, I got stabbed.

Howard: What?! Why?

McNamara: I don't know. You should ask the person who stabbed me.

[timoothy]

Monsters and Men

Last Chapter

[womaninherittheearth]

the way Howard says “John!” when Macnamara comes into the black and white reblog if you agree

[warriorblood1]

hello I am a President Goodman stan I adore him

(also the dialogue is from Be The Hero!! Go read it its very good. Howie is not in it lmao its a SAF-centric fic)

[incorrect-starkid]

howie: morning, john. what’re you drinking ?

john: water.

howie: that doesn’t smell like water

john: it’s...imported water

howie: yeah sure. imported from where?

john: .....russia

howie: john its 9 in the morning and you’re drinking vodka?

john: it’s actually 9:30