Where’s the beef?
This phrase just came up in casual conversation and I was reminded of the famous 1980s Wendy's "Where's the Beef" commercial. Between this and the Atari stuff, I seem to be in quite the 80s mood lately....
Atari800MacX
A few times in the past few days at work, at lunch a few of us were reminiscing about our old 8-bit Ataris and some of the old games. I have a fondness for those Atari machines as that's where I first learned to program (you can...
links for 2006-11-21
SCRAM nuclear reactor game for 8-bit Atari - ATR image (tags: SCRAM nuclear atari) Atari 8-bit New User, Emulator Help FAQ - v2.1 (tags: atari 8-bit faq emulator)...
Aquateen HungerForce
Browsing through our TiVo Suggestions tonight, this one caught my eye. I'm not sure why 1, but TiVo thought we would like a show called Aquateen Hungerforce. It's a cartoon about a bunch of talking fast food items. Weird. 1. It's...
A Wii bit of madness
I got a kick out of this. A sizable group of people camping outside the Best Buy in Almaden, waiting for the Wii. One group of guys had a tent with a projector and a Nintendo and were playing games to pass the time....
Rear-ended
On Saturday, at around 4:35 pm, we were on University Ave. in Palo Alto between High St. and Emerson St. when I saw a parking space open up. I slowed down and came to a stop and a few seconds later, the car behind us slammed into...
Two CableCARDs – NOT
Looks like I spoke too soon. I could've sworn that we had each of the two tuners on a different HBO channel while the cable guy was here. Well, a few hours later, I could get tuner 2 to work with regular network channels but not...