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Archive for June, 2008
Internet For Everyone
Jun 25th
Vint Cerf, often called the “father of the Internet,” shares his thoughts about access to the Internet, specifically broadband access, and how that relates to future technological innovations.
Good Fruit
Jun 22nd
This past week was Vacation Bible School at our church. The theme this year was “SonHarvest County Fair” and the kids had a great time!
Thank you to everyone who worked this week at church. I know the kids appreciated it, and I’m sure the parents did too!
New Disneyland ride attracts new tech and big crowds
Jun 19th
This looks like it would really be a fun ride. The video above actually talks about the “Disney’s California Adventure” version, but I would imagine that the “Disney’s Hollywood Studios” version is similar.
Amiga Forever
Jun 15th
I’ve always been a die-hard Commodore Amiga computer fan. So, when Cloanto started offering the Amiga Forever software emulation package, I knew I’d have to dabble with it. I’ve been playing with Amiga Forever for a few years now, and just recently grabbed their latest version, Amiga Forever 2008.
I’ve always liked the feel of that old Amiga software. Today it seems like you have to fight with too many technicalities and jump through too many hoops just to accomplish some basic tasks. Amiga software was pretty intuitive. It just worked.
To see if I could dust off that old knowledge and put it to some use I decided to see if I could somehow take an image that my wife had just taken with her new digital camera and import it into DeluxePaintIV, a classic Amiga painting program by Electronic Arts.
The trickiest part was getting the image into the standard Amiga Interchange File Format. I had to find the plugin on an Adobe Photoshop CD and copy it manually into the plugins directory. Exporting the picture right off the bat didn’t work, as DeluxePaint said it was a “mangled” IFF file. So, I fired up a newer, but still Amiga-based graphics program that came with Amiga Forever, saved the file as an IFF in that program, and the picture finally loaded in DeluxePaint, as you see above.
Trophy Day
Jun 14th
Ryan receives his championship trophy after his first season of Little League C-Ball. His team, the Pro Care Pirates, was co-champions with the VFW Marlins. Find out more at shinnstonlittleleague.com.
Kung Fu Panda movie
Jun 9th
So, Kung Fu Panda is a pretty good movie. You should go see it. It actually is pretty funny. I don’t know what else to say… except…
“Skidoosh!”
A sea of green
Jun 8th
What a crazy day this has been. Where to start?
The Shinnston Little League C-Ball season ended today, but at this point I’m not sure what team is “champions” and I’m not really sure that it matters…
Pro Care Pirates 9
VFW Marlins 10
Final (7 innings)
But that was only part of the story today.
We were planning on going to Texas Roadhouse for lunch after the game. Well, it had been discussed earlier in the day that both teams would head to the city park and pool after today’s game to eat pizza and swim.
Also, in the confusion that is a double-elimination tournament, since we had no losses, and the Marlins had one (to us, on Friday), if the Pirates lost today’s game, we were to play the Marlins once again in order to give one of us two losses. Whew!
Prior to the game, it had been discussed that the teams would only play this game, and if the Pirates won, they would be the outright champions, but if the Marlins won, we would be co-champs. That’s fine with me, considering how these past few weeks have gone, with the crazy weather, and seeing that the temperatures will be in the upper-80’s to mid-90’s for the foreseeable future. It was mid-90’s for today’s game, and that was plenty hot enough.
During the first half of today’s game, one of the parents got smacked in the mouth by a fast-moving foul ball. I think she may need a few stitches in and around her mouth, but I think she will be fine. That was a very scary situation…
And, of course, you saw the score at the top of the posting. 10 to 9. 7 innings. The kids (both teams) were beat. It was terribly hot.
Then, after the game, the city park and city pool became a sea of green, as coaches and players from both teams got together and enjoyed pizza and swimming. The kids forgot the score and played together while getting some well-deserved relief from the hot sun.
As one coach said, “I think we should have skipped the game and came straight to the pool!”
I think the Roadhouse can wait for another evening.
