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 […]
I’ve been back to work for two (short 4-day) weeks now, after my nine-month parental leave. I had a great time while I was off, fulfilling several life goals. But it’s also good to be back at work, with a new position and a new boss and plenty of potential future projects there that might […]
I hadn’t dropped by Winners for a while, and it hadn’t occurred to me that they would be selling off some of the Plug & Play (aka TV Games) now. They generally get toys once they’re a year or two old, and that’s about when the TV Games kind of hit their popularity peak. There […]
(note: I don’t actually get around to reviewing HTA this time – too much related stuff to blab about beforehand). I have possibly never anticipated a game as much as Hard Truck: Apocalypse. My friend Jason first pointed out previews of it last fall. The game was nearly complete at that point, but only for […]
Yesterday I was being a good-deed-doer, helping a non-profit organization with some computer stuff, and helping a friend move out of his place. In between deeds, I made a (lately rare) visit to the Memorial Ave. thrift shops. At the Salvation Army store, I passed on a Turbo Graphix-16 console because it had no controllers […]
Back to wrapping up my geek trip stories… One of my goals for the trip was to buy a couple Hummer Off-Road Racing Challenge plug and play games since I was involved in the development of it. I wanted one to play around with, and the other to keep in the box – a useful […]
On Saturday, Jason, Kati and I climbed in the Dragon Wagon (the nickname for their 3rd car, an older Subaru station wagon purchased for $800 so Jason could learn to drive stick-shift – it’s been remarkably reliable) and drove about an hour to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where the MGC was being held at the Olympia Resort. […]
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 […]
Happy Birthday Peter: 5 years old today. For Peter’s 4th birthday we made the Super Mario Cake pictured here. Carla did the majority of the work of course, but for a change I actually did a fair share. We had no idea that this would be such a popular picture. Unbenownst to me, but benownst […]
The 2006 C-64 Crap Game Compo has been launched, and three games have already been entered. The goal this year is to get 50 games entered so they can be put together in a compilation called Cassette 50 Reloaded which will be sold through Cronosoft, the 8-bit games publisher that’s too cheap to even pay […]