Random Ramblings

Follow up on old videogames ... Game Forms reports that John Woo may be directing a movie based on the old Spy Hunter videogame; potentially starring "The Rock"!! So maybe our old videogames don't suck as bad as those kids thought!! There will be movie and product tie-ins after all!!

Gotta love those old videogames!! There's an article up at Electronic Gaming magazine where they made a bunch of 10 and 12 year olds play a bunch of our old arcade favorites. The title of the article is Child's Play ... and the kids are merciless!! But some of the quotes are quite telling -- here's what they had to say about Space Invaders (EGM is magazine correspondent, and "John" is 11 years old:

EGM: This game was so popular in Japan that--

John: They made it into a TV show?

EGM: Well, no. It was so popular that they ran ou--

John: Oh, did they make collectible trading cards for it?

EGM: Um, no. It was so popular that there was a shortage

        of the coins used to play it.

John: But you can get this game on a cell phone. Why 

        would you want to pay for it in an arcade?

Great comic in today's paper in Non Sequitur by Wiley ... a news update ... "reporters continued their 4-year job-avoidance snooze as a steady stream of rhetoric and disinformation flowed from the White House unabated and unchallenged..." That sounds about right.

So today I got the port-forwarding going through the Linksys router -- again, no big problems. Now I can ssh/scp into the machine from the net.

But I digress ...

There's a new Strong Bad email at homestarrunner.com -- with a couple of extra links, click on "barbzerdry" and on "Deutschman" and "napping" at the end. Also check out the new cartoon -- "Powered by The Cheat" -- where Strong Bad promises him a "trophy full of Steak-Ums" if he had only done a better job. Yeah, that's some nice imagery right there.

So this is my first post from blogger.com ...

First, a shout-out to my homies in Brooklyn!! No seriously, I actually have homies (my sister) in Brooklyn.

I just got my wireless LAN set up at home. It's a Linksys WRT54G and works perfectly with Linux and Mac (OSX). It was a breeze to set up, no RTFM required. Even the WEP (security) config was straightforward.