John
Soooo, some discussions about “these kids today” and “remember what life was like before Al Gore invented the internet ?” led to talk of the good old days of Commodore 64 dial-up BBS systems. I remember spending hours with my best bud Don dialing BBS’s over and over. Ahh, the sound of 300 Baud handshakes and chattering disk drives.
I’ve been inspired to get a BBS running again on the trusty old Commodore 64. For those of you not familiar with a BBS, back in the day of 8 bit graphics and parachute pants, the online social experience was enjoyed… Continue reading
Some of my favorite spam posts that get caught in my filter. I particularly love the foreign bots and their English translations. You can see my favorite post attempts and my replies HERE
If you enjoy third person shooters with a great storyline and interesting game-play, this may be worth checking out. The folks at gog.com have the original Advent Rising for download for the amazing price of $5.99. For those of you not familiar with the game, the storyline is written by Orson Scott Card. OSC is the amazing author of my favorite books, Ender’s Game.
The game was originally released in 2005 and was planned to be a trilogy, but only two games were released (so far).
The Seeker and Aurelian characters remind me of Spartans from the Halo series at first… Continue reading
Someday I hope that we can travel like this, but in the meantime check out this ultra-cool virtual teleporter. You can travel to random locations all over the world with Globe Genie which uses Google Map and Street View
http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/
I have been hitting this thing for days now. I would love to travel worldwide, but I do not foresee it in the near future. A while ago I set up this page (below) to house some worldwide web cams that I stumble across so I can go on a little virtual trip from time to time.
http://www.theoldschoolgeek.com/webcam-hack/
I have about 30… Continue reading