A long, long time ago, my parents bought me a couple of Topps card packs for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which had just been released. I was a fan of the series (I was Spock for Halloween when I was 3 years old), so my Dad must’ve thought it would be cool to spend…
What if, prior to moving to Pawnee, Ron Swanson pursued a quest to become the ultimate Ninja?
It was a whirlwind week leading into the Labor Day weekend with everyone trying to get everything off their desks before the holiday, so work was chaotic most of the week until Friday. One of the great things about working in California is that for the most part, everyone pretty much agrees that the weekend…
I love old ninja movies, especially the ones released by Joseph Lai out of Hong Kong that typically spliced two separate films together to create a new movie. They would typically use a gritty drama or historical epic as the core movie, with scenes of westerners dressed in colorful ninja garb sprinkled throughout that had…
Rue McClanahan made a video about the care and feeding of cats back in the day. I made a brief edit of the introduction to the video —
I like goofy old movies, Andor, and people complaining about shit, so I combined all three into a video that I spent too much time making:
I’ve found a bunch of pictures from my first digital camera, a Kodak DC240 Zoom. I bought it after I moved back to the States, so it must’ve been late 2000/early 2001. The camera had a 1.3 megapixel sensor, with a 3x optical zoom and 1280×960 resolution. I thought it was fantastic and it replaced…
The week started out peacefully enough until I walked out onto my patio and noticed something was missing — several things, actually. All of my young pea plants had been pilfered in the night, but by who or what I didn’t know. My anger was tempered by the promise of a mystery and I immediately…
The Internet Archive is hosting recently discovered episodes from a mid-’80s California computer show that were transferred from reel-to-reel tape. While full of time-capsule descriptions of 1980s technology news, the most exciting aspect of the show has been the variety and uniqueness of the interviews. The list of people that the show interviewed is a…