dang it, where are my powerups?

Wired: Real World Doesn't Use A Joystick

been there, done that.

I also remember very distinctly the time I'd been assembly language programming for about 36 hours straight, took a nap, and woke up to my clock radio playing Queen's "Keep Yourself Alive" (which, at several points, repeats the title a few times in succession). I caught myself thinking that they could make the song's code more compact by adding a counter, a jump statement at the bottom, and a "branch if equals" statement at the top of the loop. Yiy. :)

one of the better Mac ad parodies I've seen

www.soriano-clark.com/mac-attack.htm

which actually originated here:

http://www.happynowhere.net/mac_parody.php

(which also has some letters to and from the creator.)

:)

(Fortunately, my own Mac experiences have generally been less...fraught.)

gotta love this here Intarweb thingy.

Because, you know, easily accessible archives:

Doonesbury: Mark and Chase get married

which I missed the first time around.