Archive for the 'Amusements' Category

Boxer & Pro Pinball: Big Race

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

I’ve been getting some older games working again courtesy of Boxer. Boxer allows modern Macs to run games from the DOS era with a minimum of fuss. I happen to have a few programs left over from that era since some mac games included the DOS versions, and some I just bought for my (infrequent) [...]

Best product of CES 2011

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is over. Sadly it was not the latest and greatest technological innovation that caught my eye amongst all of the product announcements. It was an April Fool’s Joke. Specifically, it was yet another joke product from the minds of the screaming monkeys at thinkgeek.com. Every year for April Fool’s day [...]

Erector/Meccano sets

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

With the youngest munchkin showing a distinct interest in tools and building things we picked up a couple of erector sets at the store this weekend. We picked up a set for the kid, and since I had never had Erector sets before one for me as well. I won’t know about smaller set until [...]

Reading List

Friday, May 28th, 2010