Wednesday evening I was featured as a guest on the Adventure Club Podcast. The Adventure Club Podcast is hosted by two guys, Guy Hutchinson and John J. Both of these guys are involved in a ton of podcasts and projects, some of which have been rolled up into the duo’s Adventure Club Podcast Network. I was featured on Adventure Club… read entire post
Monthly Archives: March 2013
PC Games For Sale: 40 Cents Each
I had heard of the website Bundle-in-a-Box before, but never really looked into it until one of my friends Robb Sherwin had one of his games added to a bundle. What Bundle-in-a-Box does is group several games together and allow their customers to pay whatever price they think the bundle is worth. The games are downloadable and DRM-free so you… read entire post
YDKF Episode 127/128/129: BASIC/Commodore 128/Arcades
It’s been a few weeks (apparently) since I announced my new podcast episodes here.
Episode 127 is about BASIC programming. This one has old stories about programming in BASIC, a few new stories about Visual Basic, and some new forks of the BASIC programming language that are still being updated.
Episode 128 is (fittingly) about the Commodore 128. Packed in… read entire post
Washington D.C. Food Trucks
Whenever I visit our nation’s capitol for work, I end up either at the mall area or in Navy yard. Shortly before 11am, both of these areas become packed with food trucks. I’m sure this happens in a few other areas as well.
People who live and work in the area probably take them for granted, but I find the… read entire post
Google Reader is Dead. RSS is Not.
Over the weekend Google announced they will be shutting down Google Reader (their RSS Aggregator) on July 1, 2013. This may or may not be a big deal to you. If you don’t use RSS, it’s not a big deal to you. I use RSS feeds every day. It’s a big deal to me.
If you don’t use RSS feeds,… read entire post
Metal Detecting at Lake Murray
Early this morning after camping at Lake Murray, Susan broke out the metal detector and the four of us headed down to a spot near the lake known as Buzzards Roost. We didn’t know why it was called that until, well, we saw the buzzards.
Susan and the kids wasted no time in scavenging the area. Susan works the metal… read entire post
Exhausted
After back-to-back 60-hour work weeks with two more months of them ahead, it’s hard to remember a time when I was more exhausted by work. Working at Oklahoma Graphics still tops it, of course. The summer I worked there I worked 12-hour shifts, between three and seven days a week. It was 12 hours a day of doing physical labor… read entire post
The Case of the Broken Knee
PART ONE – THE INJURY
A one line message from Susan popped up on my screen at work at 3pm on Wednesday:
Just got a call from the school. They think Mason broke his leg.
I managed to bang out “on my way” before locking my computer and trotting out to my truck. I drove, mostly like an ass, as… read entire post
MDoS (Microwave Denial of Service)
I began experiencing intermittent internet problems the first week we moved into our new home (a little over a year ago). I’d be chugging along, reading Facebook or watching a movie online, and suddenly everything would stop. I tried all the easy things like changing wireless channels, moving my router, and resetting/rebooting everything, but nothing seemed to help. To make… read entire post
Franklin Ace 1000… Destroyed
I routinely tell people that my family used to own an Apple II computer, but technically we didn’t. We actually owned a Franklin Ace 1000, which was 100% compatible with the Apple II. In fact it was so compatible that Apple soon sued Franklin soon after it was released for copying their ROMs.
In this picture which was taken at… read entire post