Three months ago, Mason joined our local YMCA’s 10-and-under winter basketball league. (He turned 11 just after the league’s cut off date.) I knew Mason liked shooting baskets, but before he signed up for the YMCA league none of us knew if he was any good at actually playing basketball. Turns out, he’s not half bad. His height (he’s tied… read entire post
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Old Computers, New Monitor
Over the years I have set up and broken down my old gaming systems and computers many, many times. Sometimes — often times, actually — it seems like I spend more time connecting and configuring and reconnecting and reconfiguring them than I do actually playing games on them. When it comes to old hardware I have a softer spot in… read entire post
Valentine’s Boxes (2013)
As some of you know, making cool Valentine’s Boxes has become a bit of a tradition around here. (Mason’s Angry Bird Valentine’s Box from last year has links to all of his other boxes as well.)
2013 was a bit different as both kids wanted to make their own boxes. I helped both kids from a design standpoint, but they… read entire post
Movie Memories Day Five: The Blair Witch Project
If the Blair Witch Project didn’t mark the birth of internet viral marketing, it sure as hell perfected it. For months prior to the movie’s release, people were talking about the found footage of “those Blair Witch kids that got lost in the woods.” People argued whether or not the three kids actually disappeared or not, and people argued whether… read entire post
Movie Memories Day Four: Cloverfield
For some reason I really got into the buzz surrounding 2007’s Cloverfield. The whole mystery surrounding the monster combined with the “reality” angle really hooked me. When the movie came out, Susan and I went on opening night. Despite all the film’s hype, we were one of only two couples in the entire theater.
Most of Cloverfield was filmed using… read entire post
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Zombie love is the best kind of love.… read entire post
Movie Memories Day Three: Blade Runner
When I was nine-years-old, my friend Andy’s grandpa took the two of us to go see Megaforce. If somehow you missed it, consider yourself lucky; Megaforce currently has a 2.9 rating on IMDB and a 0% critic approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Five or ten minutes into the movie, I had to go to the bathroom. Not wanting to disturb… read entire post
Movie Memories Day Two: King Kong
Not the old one. The new one.
First, a bit of set up here. When I was a kid I saw a television special called “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Monsters… But Were Afraid to Ask!” That show introduced me to a whole world of monsters. It also introduced me to the world of movie special effects. One… read entire post
Movie Memories Day One: Star Wars
I was two or three months shy of turning four-years-old when my parents took me to see Star Wars for the first time. If I remember correctly they had already seen the movie once and decided to see it a second time, this time with me in tow.
It’s funny the things a kid remembers. My Mom used to have… read entire post
YDKF Episode 123: The CFFA 3000
Leaping from moderately mainstream to moderately obscure, Episode 123 of You Don’t Know Flack is dedicated to the CFFA 3000, a relatively new card that plugs into vintage Apple II computers and allows retro hobbyists to load virtual disk images and convert physical disks to virtual disk images (and back). I also coin the word “floppycentric” in this episode.
Link:… read entire post