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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Fic(kle)

So, I’m going through a lot of old documents in the backup folder, converting the things I find into Rich Text rather than the 1994 version of Word. A lot of it doesn’t have a lot of fancy formatting, and all I really want is the text. I did however, find the beginnings [...]

But it could have!

Never happened to me before. Surprisingly.
Cute commercial for some startup.

Over a decade in the making

Just over, actually. PREY was announced first 1995, and over the years has experienced many changes. Overall, the final product was released last week, and it is very polished.
Not a single drab texture the entire game. It looks “whole.” As in complete.
Whether or not it was rushed out the door isn’t [...]

Ah, that explains it

This picture of the walker with the U lock was one of Mark Jenkins’s street installations. Although I haven’t seen the others, I’ll be on the lookout for them in the future.

Mark my words

No matter how much future proofing you try to do, one day, you’re going to kick yourself for saying something like, “Oh, I’m never going to need gigabit ethernet at home.”
This will be on par with saying something like, “Why would I need more than 640k of ram?”

We Had No Idea

I recall it, somewhat. It was the mid eighties. I wore a lot of black and white. Pants were cuffed. Girls were wearing jelly bracelets and lots of neon. I do not remember opening the box it was contained in, or plugging in power or monitor cables. The keyboard [...]