Is it just me or is this picture (click for a larger view) really funny? That’s me in the picture. It was taken on a recent trip to Montana. I don’t normally wear a cowboy hat – can you tell by the shirt?
Cowboy Geek
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Pictures I Like For a Variety of Reasons
WARNING: Not safe for work……This site is hilarious….it’s called “Pictures I Like For a Variety of Reasons“. Similar to Preshrunk, the commentary/caption is just as funny, if not funnier, than the actual pictures.
Gizmo recording works (on Windows, not Mac)
As follow-up to my last post on Gizmo, I just talked with Rob from Podcast411 for a while using Gizmo and it worked great and recorded the conversation easily for me (I’m on Windows). He is on a a Mac, and he tried recording too, but just got a garbled/garbage WAV file out of it. I did notice the wav I got was in an odd format that Foobar wouldn’t play, but Audacity played it just fine. I sent the WAV to him and it played on his fine too so it looks like Gizmo recording on a Mac is currently fubared (I’m using beta 8)., but I now have a way to record conversations on Windows! Oh – and the Map feature is really cool!
Geekiest Board Game Ever? Computer Rage from 1977
I went to my local thrift store today to see what I could find. Every now and then I can find something really good. Today was a good day. I found this UNOPENED, still shrink-wrapped, board game called Computer Rage that is copyright 1977 by Creative Computing Magazine. Click on the image below to see all the pics I took:
It has classic, retro art on the front and the gameplay itself is so incredibly geeky! How many games do you know that have a space labelled “Output Queue”? It even uses three binary dice (so you can roll 0-7)! Here is the description of the binary dice (click for a larger image):
Binary! How many non-computer geeks do you know that can handle binary? Maybe the math geeks can handle it too, but not many other people.
So how much did I pay for this near-pristine piece of classic 70’s retro computer goodness? $2. What a great find. I love thrift stores.
Oh yeah – I also picked up Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Platinum Edition for $1 and it included the box and everything was in it. Also a good deal. I played the demo when it came out a long time ago (I think). I probably won’t get to it anytime soon (or ever) but I couldn’t pass it up for a buck.