Last night I called one of my pinball buddies on the phone, and his wife picked up: “Hello?” “Hi, this is Adam Preble,” I said, “Is Ray available?” Jessica, sitting next to me, intoned, “Hi Joanne.” Oops. It was perfect phone etiquette — for a ten-year-old calling his friend to see if he wanted to […]
I wrote a few days back about how I see the future of arcades as being bleak, but have since come across some new developments, one being more a reinterpretation of a classic, and the other being something entirely different. Pinball News has a piece about some video pinball machines: Preview 2007. The pictures are […]
Creative Loafing has a pretty good article about the ideas that are being tossed around about what to do with WREK (previously covered here): WREK-FM faces proposal to go commercial I love the photograph of Jeremy in the vault, surrounded by vinyl. It screams oppression of the helpless non-profit! Which isn’t too far off the […]
Design Public has some very cool rechargeable lamps: Vessel Candela. They sit on a base, presumably using some sort of inductance setup to charge. Also cool: Vessel Candeloo. I saw these first and liked the whimsical shapes, but then when I looked at the product photos and can’t shake the “kid’s nightstand” […]
There’s a bar not too far from here called The Last Great Watering Hole. It’s a dive. Mike and I went there with some others a couple years ago. I remember that they had a decently-setup stage area, some pool tables, and a Playboy pinball machine. We put a few bucks […]
