Archive for January, 2005

Robin’s Green Bass vs. Richard’s Yamaha Acoustic Guitar

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Richard and I have had a running joke that playing the bass is just a subset of playing guitar, and therefore, any decent guitarist is automatically a decent bassist. Well, it’s usually Richard’s joke, and I’m the butt of it. It got brought up again in Richard’s blog, and so I’ve been thinking about this […]

My Lame Cartoon Idea

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Just because Rich and Shroom have been sharing their kinda joke / cartoon ideas: While walking back to my truck in the Canada Games Complex parking lot, I was about to walk by a fairly distinguished looking fellow, probably in his 50s, who was heading towards the building. For the last several years I’ve deliberately […]

Not a DTV bug!

Friday, January 7th, 2005

I’ve heard a bit of complaining about the C64 DTV and bugs it has. Few of them are legitimate – most are unfortunate manufacturing defects that affect some units. There’s the sound problem that one of my four sticks has – go into Hot Dog in Winter Games and if it sounds like the crashing […]

Don’t Bogart the Stuffinged Lamb

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Way way back in 1997, just a little before I became a father, I got a hand-made envelope in the mail, containing a brief letter, and a 5.25″ floppy disk. It was from a ~14 year old Dustin Chambers. He had seen one of the Commodore 64 demos Darren and I had done, it had […]

I’ve Had Some Sleep

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

I was waiting for someone to leave comments like that, Richard and Erinose. Eventually, I would have left a similar comment myself! I’ve been spending most of my free time working on the PAL (European TV standard) version of the C64 30-games-in-one joystick. The rest of the time I’ve been thinking about what I should […]