Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 29th, 2013 in MainWednesday 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 #59, so even after listening all all 59 episodes of that show there’s still a lot of other material out there from these guys to dig through. Most episodes of the Adventure Club feature a couple of interviewees, and so… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 26th, 2013 in IBM PCI 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 can install them wherever and to whatever you want. This week’s bundle contains five games and the minimum price you can pay is $2, which works out to be 40 cents per game. If you go crazy and pay more… (read more)
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 and around stories about the C128 are a couple of stories about S.A.M., the old voice synthesizer for the Commodore. Episode 129 is all about the collection of arcade games I owned while I lived in El Reno, Oklahoma. The… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 24th, 2013 in FoodWhenever 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 whole experience quite exciting. This Oklahoma City Food Truck Tracker lists 7 food trucks, most of them novelty in nature. FoodTruckFiesta.com on the other hand, a website that tracks food trucks in the D.C. area, lists 118 different trucks for… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 18th, 2013 in MainOver 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, allow me to explain. Imagine you are the manager of a newspaper in a small town. In this town, there are 200 businesses. There are two ways to get news stories for your newspaper. One way is, every morning you… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 17th, 2013 in MainEarly 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 detector and whenever she gets a hit on some metal, the kids take turns digging up the dirt and sifting through the piles to find their treasure. The “best” find of the day were these old, broken eye glasses. The… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 16th, 2013 in MainAfter 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 while standing on the concrete floor of a warehouse with no air conditioning. The summer I worked there I doubled my food intake and still lost over 30 pounds — an effective weight loss plan, yes, although a difficult one… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 15th, 2013 in Mason and MorganPART 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 quickly as I have ever driven from my work to Mason’s school. I weaved in and out of traffic, honking and flashing my lights along the way. When I arrived at Mason’s school I threw the truck into park and… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 10th, 2013 in IBM PCI 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 matters worse we were only experiencing the problem a couple of times a day, which made tracking down the issue even more difficult. I figured out the problem one day while watching a movie in the living room on Netflix… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on March 6th, 2013 in Apple II, MainI 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 my parents’ computer store (Yukon Software) back in 1985, you can see the Franklin Ace 1000 playing Little Computer People. The computer in the background is I think our PC Jr. The printer in between the two computers was an… (read more)
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