It’s been a while…
Hmm.. maybe I’ve just been to busy lately… or maybe it’s just that nothing of interest has happened lately, bit I haven’t blogged anything for a while here. So, howabout a picture. Not too interesting, but it’s the best I could come up with (all the other pictures I took with this crappy little camera came out too fuzy..) This is a shot of the street outside the building that I work in…
And one of the company fish tank.. wow!
Actually.. I did find something interesting on Slashdot yesterday, which most people don’t probably wont care about, but I’ll talk about it anyway.. 😉
A long, long time ago.. in a galaxy far, far away, there was an online service called Quantum Link.. little beknownst to anyone back then, this tiny online service company would turn into a behemoth we all love to hate–AOL. QL was exclusively for Commodore 64 computers (which happen to be a favorite of mine..) This service operated at a blazing speed of 1,200 bits per second (comparitively, today’s modems are approx 56,000 bits per second, and broadband is over 1.5 million bits per second.) Somebody, in their spare time, recreated this entire network from scratch and enabled people with C64s (or emulators) to connect to this ressurected network, just like it was in 1985. So, tonight I set up WinVICE, a C64 emulator and signed onto the service. This stuff was way ahead of its league–can you imagine instant messaging, email, news, & graphical multiplayer games in 1985! It was pretty fun to play around with (for me anyway.) Reminds me of Prodigy and the BBSs from back in the day. w00t.
September 21st, 2005 at 1:04 am
lYou’re right, most of that was French to me! (and you know I don’t speak French yet!) but the old C64’s remind me of the first video game Ping Pong! Cracks me up that we’d just hit the stupid white dot back and forth! back and forth! You’ve come a long way baby! to say the least!
I noticed three cabs right out the window at the precise time you snapped this picture! NY and cabs go together for sure! It even looks like a UPS truck parked there too! I”m waiting to see snow in those streets! You guys better get some waterproof winter/snow boots for sure or your feet will freeze with all the walking to various modes of transportations!!
Cracked me up…with the enhancements of your camera, at first I thought the company gold fish had astro-turf instead of gravel at the bottom of the tank! hehe!