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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
I caught this video recently about the diminishing market for so-called “graded” comics, which are comic books that have been professionally evaluated by a neutral third party and then encased within an ultrasonically-welded plastic case to preserve their condition. Apparently, sellers can’t offload these anymore, because no one wants them. If this video is accurate, … Read More
Well the Olympics are over and I get to replay the same quadrennial nonsense that I always do: casual dismissal prior to the games, followed by growing emotional investment as I watch more and more events, followed by a crash after the closing ceremonies. You’d think I’d learn my pattern and change, but it’s my … Read More