2009 was a pretty sobering year for me in terms of great idols and icons of my life greeting that great gettin’ up morning.  While my Grandfather-in-law Johnny Davis was alive (and I never thought of him as anything less than my Grandfather) my maternal grandmother had a sort of an appreciation day for him.  [...]

I couldn’t believe my luck at finding the original Wing Commander Tiger’s Claw, and the Robosport install sheet. But sometimes, just sometimes, when you stare into the wormhole, the wormhole totally makes eye contact then talks to its friend for a sec then makes eye contact again and then you are all “crap does that [...]

Underneath the Tiger’s Claw in the Box was this: Early 16-bit Windows gaming was a leap forward in what you had to do to get it to run, but also a big step backward in terms of graphical quality. Windows 3.1 abstracted a lot of what hardware could do through virtual device drivers.  This had [...]

You never know when the wormhole is going to hit.  One minute you’re just clearing some space in a closet, the next you’re 18 and waiting patiently for an Emerson 16mhz 80286 with 3 megs of ram to finish booting MSDOS 5.0 so you can patiently fiddle with its onboard expanded memory card TSR to [...]

I stumbled upon a Youtube video of the original Pac-man Saturday morning cartoon the other day and fell right through the god damn worm hole again. It’s way too bright in this store. It smells of the strange alien smell of expensive new things. Christmas morning, your mom opens a box and a ring’s inside [...]