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Bengies drive-in
I’m considering heading up to Baltimore to visit Bengies Drive-In this weekend. Here’s the expected lineup: Fri and Sat: 7:15pmSun: 6:45pm Fri and Sat: 8:45pmSun: 8:15pm Fri and Sat: 10:30pmonly
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Diversions: Canabalt
For those of you who follow my Twitter feed, you may have noticed several posts that led you to believe I’d taken up running as a pass time. In reality I’ve been spending my time a playing Canabalt....
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Quick Pinball Fix
I took Anne’s advice (after much hand-wringing trying to get Virtual Pinmame working), and purchased Williams Pinball Hall of Fame (for the XBox 360). Mostly, I got this one (as opposed to the Gottlieb...
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Diversions: Gravity Hook
From the people who brought us “Canabalt“, there’s now Gravity Hook HD. It’s only available online at the moment, but it’s coming soon for the iPhone. I’m already kinda into it. It’s not Canabalt, but...
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Internet TV convergence?
I’m considering getting something that will bring more media from our computers to our TV. There are a couple obvious choices (Apple TV, TiVo Premiere, etc), but I’m looking for suggestions. We...
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Vintage Star Wars Posters
I ran across these while looking around Zazzle last night, and frankly I just had to order one. Modified from vintage WPA travel posters of the 30’s, these Star Wars posters just hit too many pressure...
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RobotWar
This 10 top list of computer games includes an honorable mention for RobotWar. I actually discovered RobotWar when my friend Steve Green created a version for X11. While we had a great time coding...
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I just finished American Gods (for 1 Book, 1 Twitter #1b1t). Pretty good, better than my previous read; which was The Dream of Perpetual Motion. That book started out well enough, but I think the...
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Erector/Meccano sets
With the youngest munchkin showing a distinct interest in tools and building things we picked up a couple of erector sets at the store this weekend. We picked up a set for the kid, and since I had...
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Best product of CES 2011
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is over. Sadly it was not the latest and greatest technological innovation that caught my eye amongst all of the product announcements. It was an April Fool’s Joke....
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Boxer & Pro Pinball: Big Race
I’ve been getting some older games working again courtesy of Boxer. Boxer allows modern Macs to run games from the DOS era with a minimum of fuss. I happen to have a few programs left over from that...
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Cape Cod: Kite Flying
At the end of July, the whole family spent 4 days on Cape Cod. I managed to squeeze in a bit of kite flying with one of our daughters. She’s flying her Uncle Christopher’s shark kite, and I’m flying a...
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