|
||
As of April 7, I'll be writing through Blogger. You can take a peek at my posts below or just follow me on the Blogger site itself (click on "186 Purland Walk" below to go to site). All prior posts will stay in my Blog Archive. Thanks for keeping up wih me on here, and I look forward to your comments
on Blogger! |
||
Signing Off for 2008 Tuesday, December 30, 2008.
I've gained apartment space, a new computer, two vacations' worth of memories, and some senses of how I want my life to play out from this point forward. I've lost many co-workers and gained many wine corks in my cork bowl (not necessarily related events). New magazine subscriptions helped me gain knowledge and insight into two related realms I enjoy (magazine one and magazine two). Maybe, just maybe, I'll finally gather the information and knowledge I need to piece together and paint that 1968 Shelby GT-500 model that I've had for ... well ... quite some time now. So now that 2008 comes to an end, I salute all who I call family and friend. I shall raise a glass in toast to your health, happiness, and hopes. If ever one fails you at any point, may the other two greet you in full force and carry you through. Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic. |
||
Goodbye to an old "Friend" ... and upcoming "hello" to a new one Sunday, November 23, 2008
The past couple of months mark some significant changes for me ... with regards to computers. A couple of months ago, I said goodbye to my old Apple IIe computers. My experience with computers started with the Apple IIe back in the early '80s. My grade school had a few of them, and we learned to program in BASIC. Our excitement, however, focused on the games: Snake Byte, Sneakers, Oregon Trail, Joust, Spy Hunter, Bouncing Kamungas, Karateka (end music), and Viper. We had semi-scheduled times to go to the computer lab during the school year and during summer school. I remember programming simple programs that printed text to programs that drew complex color pictures. I believe I even learned to type on them, too. Once I left middle school, I was without an Apple IIe until my sophomore or junior year when I got a pair from friends. I spent hours playing Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Battletech, and Demon's Winter. I broke personal records in Viper and found I could play Joust so long that the level numbers became nonsense statements. When spending time with friends wasn't an option, diving into a game on there helped through the tougher times of life. Once the PC world opened up to me, my old Apple IIe feel by the wayside and collected dust. The joys of Doom II, Monster Truck Madness2, Diablo, and Warcraft upped the ante. I had fun labeling my IIe so that it'd be my "Pentium IIe" and other related monikers. When my first PC gave up the ghost, I tried to log into my university e-mail account ... and almost succeeded. The modem still worked, the software connected, but it was entirely too slow at its 1200 baud rating to log in and be useful. After a move and being stashed in a corner and a garage, both Apple IIe machines met their fate at the hands of an e-waste charity for a school. Twenty-four years of Apple IIe in my life came full-circle, and I rather appreciated the ouroboros-like moment. A machine with such popularity in schools ends its life to helps schools once again. I had a really hard time letting go, but it helped to know that I could play those old games (and then some) with equal ability on my PC. Yet, as all things are eventually replaced, a new PC is on my horizon. We'll see how Vista really is. At best, it'll be more compatible than my current set-up. |
||
Odds and Ends, with Teasers Thursday, September 18, 2008
Apparently Shock
G wrote a book that'll be out next year. According to his blog on
MySpace, it'll mainly be about Tupac. |