Miscellaneous

Here’s the arcade game cabinet, which I’ve dubbed “The Machine”: And here’s the full list of games I have installed and running on it: Asteroids Battle Zone Centipede Castlevania (original) Contra Defender Dig Dug Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong 3 Frogger Galaga Golden Axe Gorf Heavy Barrel Indiana Jones and the Temple of […]

Inspired by Brennen’s entry, here are my most frequently-entered commands: $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf \”%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’ |sort -rn|head216 ./die97 vi38 cd34 ls17 su15 ./generate_homepage.py14 ./upload.sh11 b9 apachectl6 ftp “die” rolls dice, which I’ve used a lot for role-playing. “b” opens my blog in vi. So, what does this say? I’ve rolled a lot of […]

No question, I’m enjoying my time off. I scheduled a few major projects today, but the weather was so gorgeous I finally decided to stop and enjoy it. And after a couple hours of sitting in the garden, a glass of iced tea in one hand and a book in the other, I got to […]

So I’m building an arcade game cabinet. In talking with a student today, I realized I haven’t blogged about this at all. Whoops. Arcade game cabinet? Yes, like in the arcades. Black, sloped, with a few rounded corners. I’ve already grabbed a spare computer from a closet, got a free big old monitor from a […]

Paradox: We need to get off our butts and realize our dreams. To take our ideas and goals, and make them real. Take the first class, write the first word, pick out the instrument. We need to not be so hard on ourselves. We rush from work to a store to home, barely acknowledge our […]