Note: This is a slightly revised version of what I posted on lemon64.com – cheap, I know… Well, I had my last class (4 classes in total) yesterday. We had a bunch of fun modifying the simple “Row Your Boat Ashore” song program from the C64 User’s Guide, making all kinds of noise. Then I […]
I’ve been thinking about doing this for years, and I’ve finally done it. I set up a small lab of Commodore 64s (4 of them), got a bunch of kids from our homeschool group to sign up (8 of them, ages 8-12 or so), and have been teaching them how to program in BASIC for […]
Carla and I think we’ve discovered a fundamental truth of blogging: The number of comments you receive about a post is inversely proportional to the amount of effort you put into writing that post. You want anecdotal evidence? Look no further than this very page. My last three posts all took just 5-10 minutes to […]
I’ve been staying up late some nights lately, coding for pay on a really cool project. More about that sometime. Of course, late night programming requires fuel. Two quick stories about that: For food I always choose microwave heated left-overs, if available. Our microwave (a wedding gift, so circa 1996) has a cute feature: when […]
Here’s the other chocolate thing. I’m not even sure it was supposed to be a bass guitar, but it does have 4 strings, so let’s assume that’s on purpose. I wonder if there’s a term for the maximum “chocolate-resolution” they can get out of the medium and the molds? Maybe that’s why they went for […]
I got a few special chocolate things for Christmas (yes, it’s taken a while for me to get around to posting about it) from my kids that made me laugh. They’re all things that the kids relate with me. Being the eagle-eyed nitpicker that I am, I noticed problems with two of them that I […]
Back when this big ol’ Interweb was still a pretty new thing (say, 10 years ago) spam was pretty much non-existent, even when you were dumb enough (as I am) to post your email address plain as day on your web pages. Back then I would frequently get email from people who hit one of […]
Wandering through Superstore, I saw one of those big 4′ square bargain bins full of books. Quite surprisingly, it was full of computer books – not just Windows for Dummies, either, but programming books, and plenty about game programming! Because I can’t program, I’ve been doing what I can to rectify the problem, so I […]