31st
January
2010
How time goes by when the blocks are dropping down! I watched a short interview with Alexey Pajitnov who wrote Tetris a short twenty-five years ago. The segue from Pacman to Tetris was effortless, because it’s easier to run out of room than to get eaten by a ghost. Machines have changed, over the years, but the game remains as popular as ever. His original platform: a Russian clone of the LSI-11 from the folks over at Digital. And yes, the LSI-11 is/ was really a PDP-11 with an improved chipset.
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posted in media, music |
30th
January
2010
Have you noticed how our world has ventured onto the thin ice known as JIT (Just In Time)? At any given time, we’re all only a matter of days away from the kind of hardship one used to associate with disaster.
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posted in economy |
29th
January
2010
Thankfully my name doesn’t change very often. I mean, I’ve grown quite attached to my personal identity. And with my identity, there are the “water wings” that keep me afloat in an everchanging world.
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posted in education |
28th
January
2010
It’s human nature to second guess decisions. After all, hindsight and the associated rubbish, make easy targets out of almost everyone else. We’ve all done it, and it doesn’t always make life easier.
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posted in computing |
27th
January
2010
When I was young enough to care about such things, there was a standard for a bad photographic portrait of someone. The stamp of disapproval was simply telling the person that “it looks as bad as a passport picture”. Let’s face it; how many of us want to look like those tiny grayscale renditions that governments use to identify their citizens?
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posted in travel |
26th
January
2010
The polite response to “I have a stupid question” has always been “There are no stupid questions; only stupid answers”. A lovely thought. Keep it close.
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posted in technology |
25th
January
2010
All it requires is a single warm night for winter to be over. That is, according to retail marketing experts. My own calendar has some leeway.
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posted in economy, Wx |
24th
January
2010
More than seven hours have gone by since the start of the afternoon’s diversion. Too bad the other fellas let the “old fella” down.
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posted in sports |
23rd
January
2010
Truth be told, I was probably born too late to be a successful trainspotter. By the time I could coo and crawl, steam was gone from the Island, replaced by tiny perfect Diesels.
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posted in travel |
22nd
January
2010
It takes a few days to get the gang ready, but the music industry was out in force and voice this evening for a huge telethon. Haiti needs and we have; what could be simpler?
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posted in health, sports |
