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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Live Action Game Nostalgia
Like the rest of the Sector, I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s and as a result was lucky enough to cut my gaming teeth on the original Nintendo Gameboy. While I tended to play the likes of Zelda, Mario and Donkey Kong, my brothers and I really only had one game that could satisfy our multiplayer thirst: Tetris. Arguably the most prolific of the early puzzle games, Tetris (or one of its numerous clones) is available for nearly every gaming console, operating system and graphing calculator to date (you can even play it online here). Needless to say I was a little excited to see the creativity used by these 36 skateboarders as they recreated Tetris while on the streets of San Francisco:
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Tagged donky kong, gameboy, games as art, nostalgia, space invaders, tetris
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Water Cooler RAIDs
I’m sure the readers of the Sector know exactly what RAID is and the intricacies of each variant, however, not everyone is tech savvy enough to follow either the Wikipedia article or the even easier Gizmodo primer. I’ve found the best way to explain RAID to the masses is by using the image below. While it doesn’t cover all possible variations, it not only hits the most commonly used ones but does it in an easy and concise manner. I’m not even sure how I came across the image (I think it was flickr or digg or somesuch) but I’m hoping there’s a repository of awesome explanatory pictures just like this one. If you have any other tools to easily explain tech topics to the masses, feel free to share them in the comments.
Help Me Name My Goddamn Cats
So Lenore and I got a couple cats a few weeks back. They are a brother-sister pair of ~1 year old Maine Coons. The girl was named Pepper Lily or some shit and we forgot what the boy’s name was, so we decided to give them new names. We’ve been calling them boy-cat and girl-cat since we brought them home.
So far we’ve tried:
- Doris and Boris
- Littlefoot and Bigfoot
- Champ and Idiot
- Bananas and Potatoes
- Perl and Bash
Both parties are okay with Perl, but we (Lenore) is iffy on Bash. She also vetoed Java.