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- "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" - The rap video
- In order to apologize for the MS-DOS 5 upgrade rap I foisted upon everyone a few days ago, and reconfirm the eternal coolness of Zork, I give you the video to nerdcore rapper MC Fontalot's "It Is Pitch Dark," which explains how Zork and its ilk of text adventures helped...
- Tags: Basement, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Dinosaur Sighting: The original Apple Mac Classic
- The Apple Mac Classic is one of the most famous and easily recognizable personal computers ever manufactured. First introduced in 1990, the Mac Classic was Apple's low-end under $1,000 computer, which made it very popular with the education market. In the next few weeks, we'll be cracking open this classic...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Mac Classic, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Pac-Man, the text adventure game
- What do you call the illicit love child of Pac-Man and Zork? Why Pac-Txt, of course. Rather than intuitively navigating a neon-colored maze whilst animated ghosts pursue your input-device-controlled yellow-orb icon, you instead wander a darkened labyrinth with only your wits and a text interface to guide you. Gone are...
- Tags: Game, Games, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Webcomic: An old-school antidote for l33t-speak
- Do you hate the h4xx0red version of English wrought by text messaging? Are you also an old enough fogey to fondly remember Zork and its ilk of text-adventure games? Then you'll love Full Frontal Nerdity's plan to rescue the HALO generation from their own linguistic self-destruction....
- Tags: Text Messaging, Antidote, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Geek Trivia: Game within a (video) game
- SabaacWas just a variation of Poker with one unique twist: Cards could change value in your hand.RE: Geek Trivia: Game within a video gameQuibble with the quibble....I am Canadian, and I would suggest Jay you weren't "wrong" just a little out of date.In the day's of my youth (60s),...
- Tags: Games, mtgarden, game, Geek Trivia, card game, video
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- (Photos: Intel teraflop chip on board)
- WOWYes but will I be able to play Zork on it???3Ghz????? - What??Can someone explain why 3Ghz is supposed to be impressive?? Dont most machines do that now anyways???Reply to 3GHzThink of it this way for the 3GHz processor. Normally you just have a dual core or single core processor...
- Tags: board, chip, Intel Corp., off-topic, photograph, processor, ron_conaway@...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Geek Trivia: Game within a (video) game
- If one day you find yourself sitting down to pen that long-imagined bestselling science-fiction or fantasy novel and you're looking for one particular trick that will give your speculative story a sense of reality and lead to shameless marketing opportunities, just throw in a made-up card game or chess variant...
- Tags: Game, Card, Video, Fanucci, Games, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Geek Trivia: Cheaper by the d'oh-zen
- In a recent paper titled "Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking," a group of Stanford physicists introduced a new word to the string theory lexicon: Embiggen. Quoth the paper: "We could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely...
- Tags: Catchphrase, Episode, Simpsons, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Old Timers Unite!!!
- at 6:00 am PDT Monday October 15 2007 we should all be here to see what trouble we can get going in the discussions ]:)[ gg, that is 1 in the afternoon for you ;) ]Since a lot of us are online at that time anyway, it isn't hard to...
- Tags: Jaqui, old timer, Mae, timer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- What's a troll?
- When so often within the community of interest the discussion spills out into the worldwide community of human interest, "troll" is invoked. It is used like spit to drive away one from without.Where is the border of within from without?And what, then, is a troll?BorderApparently, according to you both, I...
- Tags: INTERNET, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, santeewelding@..., troll
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- How big is the Internet
- .19.2 billion?8.1 billion?Bigger than a breadbox?http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/technology/15search.html?ei=5090&en=f94199a293b0c97d&ex=1281758400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=printThink about this. If someone told you 20 years ago that.......... a Google was feuding with a Yahoo ..... ..... what would you have thought?Do you Google?No, I Yahoo.Oooooooooookay.how big???no one really knows but here is some ideahttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htmI google :)hissssssyahoo users are nothing but a...
- Tags: bush, google, Google Inc., Internet, light-hearted, maxwell edison, off-topic, who cares, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school...
- Tags: game, Growing Older, just_chilin, off-topic, pre email, pre web
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
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