Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 26th, 2014 in MainLast month Susan decided to redecorate our front living room. I agreed, as long as the last step involved buying a new television and hanging it on the wall. We shook hands, and shortly after the new sectional, rug, and chaise lounge arrived, so did the new television. This is the first television we’ve ever mounted to a wall. While that was relatively simple, it left us with a small stack of electronics piled on top of a TV tray. I waited a week and the items did not organize themselves, so I decided I was going to have to… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 24th, 2014 in Commodore 64Six months ago I was contacted out of the blue by a friend-of-a-friend (I don’t even know his real name) who asked if I was able to archive some old Commodore diskettes for him. I told him I could. I asked him what type of data was on the disks and he told me they contained programs he had written in BASIC and custom levels for games he had created almost 30 years ago. I gladly obliged. Unfortunately when the diskettes arrived in my mailbox the were unreadable. This happens. I don’t know if the disks were ruined from being… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 23rd, 2014 in MainI grew up with Bill Cosby. Not in Philadelphia of course, but on television. Bill Cosby appeared on both the first two seasons of The Electric Company and on Fat Albert, both of which I watched regularly as a kid. How I really became familiar with Bill Cosby was through his comedy albums. My parents owned several of Cosby’s records, and I spent hour upon hour in my room as a kid listening to I Started Out as a Child, Why Is There Air? and Wonderfulness, among others. I memorized every word to every one of those comedy bits and… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 16th, 2014 in MainBy the time I began purchasing the seventh generation of video game consoles in the mid-2000s — the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii — I already had a wiring nightmare on my hands. Even before I owned those three consoles I had at least twenty other gaming systems wired up to my television and ready to play. You’re probably familiar with those old manual RCA switch boxes that allowed you to hook four different things up to a single television. To wire up that many televisions, I had eight 4-way switch boxes connected to a big 8-way switch… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 15th, 2014 in SpellingIn your head, can’t you see the word “managment” underlined in Microsoft Word? (See all of my spelling related posts.)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 13th, 2014 in MainIt finally happened. Someone — not on the internet, but in real life — asked my opinion of Gamergate. Gamergate began this past August and I only know the slightest of details, but I will try and summarize this nonsense as quickly and generically as I can. The way I understand it, a young woman wrote and released a new video game that got some attention on a few popular online gaming news sites. It was soon revealed that one of the online journalists (a young man) who had given the game a positive review had previously had a relationship… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 5th, 2014 in MainHuey Lewis and the News released their third album Sports in September, 1983. The album’s first two singles, “Heart and Soul” and “I Want a New Drug,” both cracked the top ten. The third single, “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” was a tribute to rock and roll. The song consists of three verses. The first two are each dedicated to specific cities while the third verse mentions ten more (one of which is Oklahoma City). That’s one of the things that caught my attention as a kid. I thought it was really cool that I lived in a city… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 4th, 2014 in MainI try my hardest to ignore suggesting advertising. “If you bought that, you might also like this!” Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong and that’s not the point. I would like to think that I am capable of purchasing what I want and only what I want. (Notice that I said “want” and not “need.” I didn’t “need” a life-size skeleton, I just wanted one.) i bought some things online last year and as I checked out I got the prompt. I think it said, “other people who purchased this item also bought these.” Below that was… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 4th, 2014 in MainMason lost interest in trick-or-treating this year. He went through all the motions Halloween night, knocking on doors and collecting candy, but told me afterwards that next year, if it’s all the same to me, he would rather stay home and just hand out candy to kids. I remember the last year I went trick-or-treating. I was slightly older than Mason — fifteen years old and in tenth grade. My friend Louis and I both owned motorcycles and lived within a mile of one another so we could often be seen riding around town together. by then I was working… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on November 1st, 2014 in MainHalloween snuck up on me this year. I truly love Halloween, from the traditions all the way to the decorations. It’s really not Halloween until I start drinking out of this cup. One thing we did last week for Halloween was go to Krispy Kreme and get some Ghostbusters-themed donuts. Morgan and I ran into the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man there. It was very scary. At 9:30 p.m. on the night before Halloween, Morgan told us she needed a “Lorax” t-shirt for school on Friday. Susan dug out a t-shirt and I got out the paints and I whipped this… (read more)
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