The song took four hours, reached 99 percent, and became something recorded from a radio in a bathroom.

90s Kid - Napster and the Mystery Download

The song took four hours, reached 99 percent, and became something recorded from a radio in a bathroom.

September 19, 2026 · 3 min · 505 words · Justin
A confident AI robot presents an enormous accessibility request for an electric scooter outside a historic mansion museum.

The AI Had a Plan for the Mansion

I asked AI to check whether attractions would allow my electric scooter. It sent a formal mobility-aid request to a 136-year-old mansion—and the museum had receipts.

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 1056 words · Justin
Portable digital music arrived with enough room for an album, assuming the album showed discipline.

90s Kid - The 32 MB MP3 Player

Portable digital music arrived with enough room for an album, assuming the album showed discipline.

September 18, 2026 · 3 min · 451 words · Justin
A phone waveform flows into paper paragraphs and a checklist while a hand makes red pencil corrections. A visual metaphor for dictation, organization, and human revision.

I Have the Idea. Getting It Out Is the Hard Part.

The rough version finally has somewhere useful to go.

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 855 words · Justin
Four batteries charged all night so the handheld could survive part of a car ride.

90s Kid - The Rechargeable Batteries

Four batteries charged all night so the handheld could survive part of a car ride.

September 17, 2026 · 3 min · 567 words · Justin
A fictional Pueblo-inspired streetscape with an unmarked brick utility building and roadside cabinet, overlaid with paper records and an abstract map. No actual facility or utility route is shown.

What the Hell Is in That Building?

The interesting possibility is the beginning of the investigation.

September 17, 2026 · 5 min · 880 words · Justin
Editorial illustration of the two AM radio towers behind Hwy 50 Autoplex in Pueblo

Two Towers Behind the Car Lot

How Pueblo’s KGHF transmitter plant became Hwy 50 Autoplex—and how a kid grew up beside an operating AM transmitter.

September 17, 2026 · 7 min · 1360 words · Justin
Thirty tiny buttons transformed your wrist into a business computer nobody could actually type on.

90s Kid - The Calculator Watch

Thirty tiny buttons transformed your wrist into a business computer nobody could actually type on.

September 16, 2026 · 3 min · 551 words · Justin
An imagined workbench with a CRT catalog screen, open computer tower, tools, service tickets, and a tablet. It represents stages of a business, not an actual equipment inventory.

Apparently I Was Starting a Business

Old websites, repair questions, and responsibility accumulating.

September 16, 2026 · 4 min · 817 words · Justin
A digital camera saved photographs onto the same square disks as homework.

90s Kid - The Camera That Used Floppy Disks

A digital camera saved photographs onto the same square disks as homework.

September 15, 2026 · 3 min · 638 words · Justin