Four Years Of THIS
Four Years Of THIS By Matt Well, since it’s been over a week since the last update, and I could use a break from my latest freelance gig (I’m editing video for the National Enquirer, believe it or not), time for a quick update… Especially since May 31 is somewhat of a special day; it’s the four year anniversary of this website! Yay. Though truth be told, I did have something special planned for today to mark the occasion, that being the first real installment of the podcast, but unfortunately
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) directed by Seth Gordon 79 minutes The King of Kong is so funny and heartbreaking, its characters so unwittingly self-revealing, that it's easy to mistake the film for a mockumentary. But it's for real, and it focuses on the rivalry between arcade-gamers Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe, as they engage in asynchronous combat to achieve the world-record score in Donkey Kong. In competitive arcade-gaming, as in professional wrestling, there are good g
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Koppa's Farwell Foods in Milwaukee contains a mini-retro gaming area with a playable Atari 2600, a selection of 50 games, and appropriately horrible wallpaper. Industry and multi-console news Lorne Lanning has confirmed earlier reports of a new Oddworld game, but he won't go into detail. The GamePlan retail event has been postponed due to a conflict with Ubisoft's Ubidays event. Bionic Commando Rearmed will miss its scheduled May release. They say the game is finished, but there are some last
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Not only is NASA,the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, going to attempt to put another lander on Mars, but this time their doing it live on the Internet for all to see. According to Michael Learmonth of Silicon Valley Insider, starting at 6 PM EST today, people can head to NASA’s website, or Second Life, to watch as NASA attempts to put the Phoenix Mars Lander down on solid ground. I only say “attempts” as missions to Mars have had a checkered past over the years, but the twin r
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Reflections on My Sixtieth Birthday Preamble ~ Decades ~ The physical side of things ~ On being impractical and worldly unwise ~ A diatribe against power and authority ~ Interests and passions ~ Peak experiences ~ The case of the shrinking vocabulary ~”One Equal Music”: the resolution of paradoxes ~ Comedy or tragedy? ~ Shedding of baggage ~ Epilogue I turned sixty last week. I didn’t mention it to the folks at work until afterwards. They are mostly lasses who haven’t
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Four Years Of THIS By Matt Well, since it’s been over a week since the last update, and I could use a break from my latest freelance gig (I’m editing video for the National Enquirer, believe it or not), time for a quick update… Especially since May 31 is somewhat of a special day; it’s the four year anniversary of this website! Yay. Though truth be told, I did have something special planned for today to mark the occasion, that being the first real installment of the podcast, but unfortunately read
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) directed by Seth Gordon 79 minutes The King of Kong is so funny and heartbreaking, its characters so unwittingly self-revealing, that it's easy to mistake the film for a mockumentary. But it's for real, and it focuses on the rivalry between arcade-gamers Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe, as they engage in asynchronous combat to achieve the world-record score in Donkey Kong. In competitive arcade-gaming, as in professional wrestling, there are good g read
Koppa's Farwell Foods in Milwaukee contains a mini-retro gaming area with a playable Atari 2600, a selection of 50 games, and appropriately horrible wallpaper. Industry and multi-console news Lorne Lanning has confirmed earlier reports of a new Oddworld game, but he won't go into detail. The GamePlan retail event has been postponed due to a conflict with Ubisoft's Ubidays event. Bionic Commando Rearmed will miss its scheduled May release. They say the game is finished, but there are some last read
Not only is NASA,the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, going to attempt to put another lander on Mars, but this time their doing it live on the Internet for all to see. According to Michael Learmonth of Silicon Valley Insider, starting at 6 PM EST today, people can head to NASA’s website, or Second Life, to watch as NASA attempts to put the Phoenix Mars Lander down on solid ground. I only say “attempts” as missions to Mars have had a checkered past over the years, but the twin r read
Reflections on My Sixtieth Birthday Preamble ~ Decades ~ The physical side of things ~ On being impractical and worldly unwise ~ A diatribe against power and authority ~ Interests and passions ~ Peak experiences ~ The case of the shrinking vocabulary ~”One Equal Music”: the resolution of paradoxes ~ Comedy or tragedy? ~ Shedding of baggage ~ Epilogue I turned sixty last week. I didn’t mention it to the folks at work until afterwards. They are mostly lasses who haven’t read
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