Published May 12, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT Former radio and TV guy (I Heart Radio and PBS). Now a writer, researcher, and musician who writes about the absurdity of our modern world and other offbeat topics. Specializes in weird music, the old web, retro video games and tech, and researching strange, yet interesting things. His work has appeared in Vice, Tedium, Star Trek.com, Today I Found Out, Tybebar, SyFy Wire, and How To Geek. Currently working on a variety of music, web, and writing projects. Visit him on the web at  https://djbuckfreelance.neocities.org/ . Here's one for the digital scrapbook: I found an ancient computer mouse ( with a trackball! ) while cleaning out my garage. Covered in a thick layer of 20th-Century dust but still in relatively good condition, the mouse immediately conjured one thought: I wonder if it still works? I made a short video about it and posted it to YouTube. The community there was shockingly supportive of the idea of testing it on a modern machine.…