Last night during an essay-grading break, I stumbled upon Catakig, an Apple //e emulator for the Mac. Huzzah! Now I can play all my old favorites, like Karateka and Pool of Radiance. Of course, they haven't stood the test of time, but the nostalgia is still fun.

I'm having much less success with Bliss, the Intellivision emulator. I got AD&D to show up on my screen, but none of the buttons do anything. (TPCQ: "This whole ship's a bunch of buttons!")

Now if I can just find an emulator for the Timex Sinclair, I can almost exactly replicate my entire adolescent computing/electronic-game-playing experience. Who's up for a rousing game of "Lemonade Stand"?

Random

Molly Ivins wrote a good piece recently about the Texas education budget.

Combining his hitherto unknown passion for the briny deep with the exigencies of the school funding crisis, Cap'n Rick [Perry, Governor of Texas] decided the thorny problem could best be resolved at sea. He decided to hold a seminar on school finance at Abaco, in the Bahamas, aboard a 54-foot yacht.

The miracle lives!

Uncommon

Today the guy in front of me at the supermarket bought $135.00 worth of Splenda artificial sweetener.

Home

The skies have been grey and bland for days. This is especially unpleasant during the weekend. It's a sad state of affairs when the sky in your PS2 is more appealing than the sky outside your window. The temperature has also been cool, but not cold enough for me to put on a proper jacket when I walk my dog.

TimeWaster™

Atomic Pongling is kinda cool. Arkanoid goes bowling.

Today I'm listening to: Ocean's 11! ("BAAA bum ba-da da-da bum...")