Pepsi’s got a new soda out; Pepsi Throwback. Well, ok, it’s not new, it’s old. They’ve switched the sugar back in, and taken out the high fructose corn syrup. And my my, is it good stuff. Just like I remember, it’s funny how your brain doesn’t forget. Let’s just hope it catches on so I [...]
A fellow pinball hobbyist has been collecting pictures of the “backglass” of pinball machines, or in other words, the art around the area where you score is displayed. One of the most notable things about pinball glass is that women’s breasts are always obscenely large.
Anyhow, this guy lost his hosting, so I agreed to host [...]
My Arduino Mega arrived in the mail today. With any luck, I’ll have time to mess with it a bit this evening. That means, though, that I need to come up with artificial test cases, to learn the hardware.
For those playing along at home, my ultimate medium-term goal is to control a pinball machine with [...]
Based on my referrer logs, a lot of visitors come here looking for icoconvert, a tool I wrote years back to convert ICO files to PNG. I’m going to see if I can dig up the source code for you all, and post it here soon. If this is important to you, leave me a [...]
How on earth have I been on the net for 20 years and never seen this? I laughed until I cried.
http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/
Picked up a Family Guy pinball machine this afternoon. This was a “must have” for Maggie, so I happened to see one locally and surprised her. She’s thrilled to death. Here’s a picture:
I ran across this article last night while killing some time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/how-much-does-smoking-cos_n_184554.html
I’d like to take some time to follow up on their sources and verify the information, but it does propose interesting questions and points. I really can’t wait until it’s not profitable to demonize the smokers anymore, and the zealots turn their attention to the [...]
I’ve been using Mashed Life for awhile now, and I’m happy with what they provide. It’s not for everyone; you’re storing authentication data on their servers. But today, I noticed that they now offer Yubikeys for $9.99, plus $3 S+H. This contrasts with Yubico’s price of $25 each, plus a bit of shipping. This is [...]
I decided to switch to a G1 today. The openness of the device vs the Sidekick really can’t be argued. There will likely never be an AIM application for any phone that is as good as the Sidekick, and I really do like my AIM. But nothing else about the phone is great. And lots [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t buy from buy.com very often. So infrequently, in fact, that the last time was over 6 years ago, as they had my old Atlanta address in their system. However, they’ve been around awhile, seem to be reputable, I guess, and occasionally have good deals [...]
