Archive for July, 2006

Watch Some Guy Play Gorgar

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Continuing in the exciting vein of my last entry (YouTube linking), here’s a great little video that Wotto (who I don’t know) playing his Gorgar: Link I’d like to make one myself, but frankly I don’t think my flipper skills are video-worthy. His same-side-flipper-guarding technique is interesting — notice how he follows the ball with […]

Thanks, Stadium Pal!

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Whereas: Linking to YouTube is the thing to do these days, David Sedaris is unquestionably one of the finest essayists of our time, David Sedaris reading a classic essay on Letterman has appeared on YouTube, I think it is only fitting that I link to the video, so that you may enjoy it too. Also, amazingly my prayers […]

Whirlwind Lives!

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

What a week. Our Whirlwind pinball machine CPU board returned from repairs after five weeks on Tuesday. Elated, I plugged it in and — viola! — the game started up! Well, mostly. You see, half the sounds were missing. Over the past few evenings I’ve poured over Whirlwind circuit board […]

Welcome Back, Pointers!

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I’ve been waiting around for word of my high school reunion for a few years now. I’m not sure why I was looking forward to it. Perhaps I’ve seen Grosse Point Blank too many times. So when I got a call about a high school reunion on the answering machine looking for […]

Concert Budget Crisis

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I guess this is a good thing, but, holy cow — will whoever is responsible for this stop bringing shows I want to see to Atlanta! Today I read that Sufjan Stevens is coming to the Fox in September for a pretty reasonable $25.00 per seat. Thus far we have tickets to: […]