It’s amazing to think that it’s been a full year since Kyla was born. We had got up out of bed at about 2 a.m. to drive to the hospital, and only 8 hours later we were driving home with another little Harbron. The nine months of parental leave flew by; I’ve been back at […]
This is the 3rd track from the “My 64” album. We had a lot of fun playing the music for this track – musically we were more influenced by MxPx’s cover of “Summer of ’69” than by the Bryan Adams original. My singing is particularly awful on this track. SUMMER OF 64 ———— Music/some lyrics: […]
This second track on the “My 64” album was a whole bunch of fun to record, like messing around with effects on the background vocals and trying to get a sitar-like sound out of my acoustic guitar for the solo. I also like the inherent goofiness in singing long phrases like “Double Density 5 1/4″ […]
I’m starting to get ready for my annual trip down to Chicago to meet up with fellow Commodore geeks at the end of September. SWRAP didn’t put together a show, so a friend of mine put up the money to rent a big conference room at a hotel. Long live the ECCC! It’s been 7 […]
The SWRAP Chicago EXPO is cancelled this year, but we’re still going to have an event anyway – ECCC Chicago Expo, September 30, 2006. I’ve now put up two of my old Loadstar Letter articles on C64 programming – you can find them on my pages here. Might as well put in another plug for […]
Some people might think I have too much stuff. I still figure I just don’t have enough space, but I realize that I have an awful lot more space than most people, so it’s time to get rid of a bunch of stuff again. First, I round up all the least interesting stuff I have, […]
I’ve been working on organizing my geek room again lately so it’ll be a bit more presentable for a couple coming events. Alex (A Beggar at the Table) will be visiting me for some geeky fun on July 13th (this Thursday) while he’s passing through town, and we’ll probably be having another Hullabaloo on July […]
Never before have I seen so many errors in so small a space. Read the text in the blue box on this page about the C64. I’m compelled to correct this, so here we go: The Commodore 64 and Vic-20 were the first affordable personal computers to hit the market. This statement is arguably true […]
As I mentioned in my first post of 2006, over the Christmas holidays MEF brought me a bunch of computers that had belonged to her dad. I’ve had time to pay attention to my older computers again lately, and having finished going through all my C-64s, today I started checking out the Tandy (Radio Shack) […]
I got back last night from my first geek trip of the year. My dad allowed me to borrow his car which was great, because I did the whole trip for only about $100 in gas, compared to the (estimated) $250 my truck would have eaten. I can no longer take our fairly fuel-efficient minivan […]