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BangfoAtarisdesk

I came across this post on Boing Boing showing an Atari users desk circa 1983.  While it looks like a moment from an era gone past, it brings back so many memories of my father.  The picture below has a familiar if uncanny resemblance to  what my dad’s desk would ultimately become as our family [...]

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An interesting observation in that apparently if you have URL text data in your clipboard buffer, and you paste into Vista’s Windows Calculator (calc.exe) it pastes as pi?

A few years ago Stacy and I were planning our wedding, and one of the tasks was to find a good photographer who we liked, and who had an opening for our wedding date.  Stacy did all of the leg work I have to say, and narrowed it down to a few prospects and setup [...]

Blast from the past

2007/08/03

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Durham Woods Rubble after Gas Explosion in Edison,NJ in 1994

Information and images from the gas line explosion at the Durham Woods development in Edison, NJ during 1994

Internet Radio Stations tun3r.com A great web site to sample internet radio stations BBC’s Radio 1 Home of the UK’s Essential Mix, one of the best venues for trance and house music in the world and on the web Slam.FM One of the best stations out of the netherlands for trance. Home of ARMIN VAN [...]

Live-Earth

So today I was at home working on some stuff over VPN when I noticed the mention of Live Earth on some of the blogs I frequent. Essentially it a world wide concert held in several locations around the world (US, Japan, Germany, UK, Brazil, etc.) with the message about trying to spread the awareness [...]

The First Paradox of Gaming

I had called my wife on the way home from work today, where she happened to be getting the mail on her way up the driveway.  She said a package was shoved in our mailbox, and asked if I had been expecting anything since it was really jammed in there. Since I had no idea [...]