I was lucky enough to grow up playing around with Sinclair Spectrums (at least until Amstrad killed them off by taking over). I occasionally play games I used to love using an emulator, and I’ve recently discovered that ZX Planet offers quite a few for download.
Long time no update, but I’m still obsessed with my trip to New York. The Pink Tea Cup looks like an amazing place to eat – I’m drooling already.
I’m going to New York in a month or so (check out the countdown) so I was interested in stories of the blackout. here are a couple I enjoyed:
Blackout Photographs
One guy’s story
See, I know what you’re thinking – this movie’s ancient (And PLEASE don’t mention the recent apalling remake :()
Well I didn’t see this at the cinema. I live near Edinburgh, and every year there is an arts festival, and I barely ever see anything. Well this time some friends and I made the effort to go and see 12 Angry Men. If you haven’t seen the original movie, this review won’t make much sense.
It was really well played. There were was one particular weak performance, but that was a minor one. Everything else was excellent, the only problem was the audience. Stephen Frost was playing “the one with the son” and was terrific. You could just see the anger flowing out of him. Excep that some people obviously couldn’t. He is best known for comedy, but this was not played for laughs, and peopel were laughing at the most inappropriate times. that was what annoyed me the most. But the show was well worth seeing.
For Dave:
Guess that puts me 10-9 in front!
Janet
Who Walter Mitty was, but this article cleared things up.
. . . What hassles people have with dabs.com. I used to work for a hardware manufacturere and people were always complaining to me about them. But I’d forgotten.
So I ordered something from them three weeks ago and I’m still waiting. I’ll admit that it took me a while to send off the finance forms, but the fact is that one of the items has only over this past weekend moved from “awaiting stock” to “allocated”. The problem is that I’d asked them to change the order, but they’ve done it wrong.
I wouldn’t have such an issue, but they refuse to deal with individual customers on he phone. One five-minute phonecall a week or so a go would have sorted this out and I’d have my stuff by now, but instead I’m stuck with 24 hour turnarounds and mistakes in my order. grrrr.
Matrix Pinpong
[Via Jesse Warden]
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Stolen from Simian Design
I’ve mentioned before that I’m going to New York on Holiday this year and, as part of my preparation (if that sounds fancy, it’s just that I’m really excited about going) I’ve been reading New York: An Illustrated History (Amazon UK?US). It’s a huge book – 500+ pages A4 with lots of history, photographs and pictures. I’ve been enjoying it, but I noticed that in some sections, one of the sources they draw from is personal diaries. Now that Blogs are so popular, I think that that process is more immediate. The only problem is that the ease of writing means that standards aren’t that high. I’m thinking of myself too. So whether this blog is historically useful (where do old Blogs go when they die?) I hope it is useful in the present.