The best and most thought-provoking game of the DOS era was Starflight. Kids today, with their intuitive graphical user interfaces. They have no idea what a pain it was to use computers back in the eighties. DOS especially was an autistic nightmare. Bill Gates is some kind of genius to have convinced so many people [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
I don’t get to movie theaters much. But as part of the new family plan to enjoy ourselves on Christmas, I went to see Avatar in 3D with a bunch of relatives. I went in intending to dislike it, and came out having thoroughly enjoyed myself. So much for my hipsterish snobbery. What’s interesting to [...]
Filed in Copyright and Authorship, Sampling
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Also tagged aliens, america, anne mccaffrey, avatar, capitalism, gaia hypothesis, green, james cameron, mashups, memes, military, movies, native americans, originality, pop, racism, roger dean, south park, the abyss, the matrix, white people, yes
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
My taste in video games mostly runs to the cartoony Japanese stuff: Mario, Zelda, Katamari. But I had access to an Xbox and a copy of Halo for a while, and I couldn’t rest until I finished it. I walked around thinking about it whenever I wasn’t playing. Every aspect of it was familiar, except [...]
Filed in Video Games
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Also tagged bungie, christianity, halo, mashups, microsoft, remixes, ringworld, star trek, star wars, Video Games, xbox
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When I was in third grade, my mom and stepfather went on academic sabbatical to London for six months, taking my sister and me with them. I guess I’m grateful for the chance to experience another culture and everything, but it was a rough six months. I missed my dad, school, New York, the Muppet [...]
Filed in Hardware, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged analog, bbc, delia derbyshire, doctor who, eighties, electronica, keybs, multitracking, sixties, synths, tape editing, tv, uk, vocoder
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