I found, via slashdot, this great article on the history of Rogue, a character-based dungeons-and-dragons computer game from the early 80s, originally developed for UNIX. While I had been playing paper-based RPGs with my friends and computer-based D&D games (like the Alternate Reality or Ultima series on my Atari 800XL) all through high school, I [...]
Archive of entries posted in May 2009
Windows 7 peace offering?
Microsoft made publicly available the first (only?) release candidate of Windows 7 this week, so I downloaded the image and then installed it at work on the same laptop I had put the beta on a few months ago. One interesting thing I noticed was the new login screen background, which has what appears to [...]
Could this be the year?
With the Cleveland Cavaliers kicking off the next round of the NBA playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks tonight, I got an e-mail from my sister with a link to this article on MSNBC. Bob Madden sighs. He wants to believe. Oh, does he want to believe — to believe deep inside his body where feelings [...]
179 hours of HD goodness
Who needs to buy a brand new TiVo HD XL to get 1TB of recording capacity? After adding the Western Digital eSATA 1TB MyDVR Expander to my Series3 my recording capacity jumped from 32 HD hours (303 SD hours) to 179 HD hours (or 1,561 SD hours) … 1.3 terrabytes! Just like the 500gb Expander [...]
WIJFR: Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut’s absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut’s) shattering experience as an American prisoner of [...]
