I’ve been trying to think of cool ways to punch up the look here at West Karana. Professional color schemes? Meh! An enlightened sense of design? BORING!
I had just the solution! What we really are all craving here in the 21st century are more BAR CODES! YES!
I read a LOT of science fiction when I was a kid. One thing that was mentioned again and again, more than flying cars and weekend rocket trips to the Moon, were bar codes. Gotta have them. On the skin of our wrist, or on our home bots, or on the slips of paper the company Compu-Tron used to answer the deep questions, like, what is the exact value of ‘pi’. Just before it spitzensparken and blew up. Blowing up was ANOTHER of those cool future things that happened.
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TV Recap: Mod Squad ep 1, “Teeth of the Barracuda”
I think I missed a few weeks on my TV recaps. Well, tonight’s is a good one — Mod Squad’s first episode. Set in 1968 (though the novel on which it is based was set in the 50s), Mod Squad follows a mod, a cool cat and a hippie chick as they narc on their friends for Johnny Law. Richard Pryor and a very young Harrison Ford have cameos.
It’s a very sanitized version of the 60s, and it reassured viewers that beneath the beads and day-glo, kids of the so-called counterculture revolution were just good plain folks who would grow up to become Enron executives and investment bankers.
The people who ruined today’s world were the rebellious kids of the 60s. Maybe they should have been concerned?
While writing this, I wondered how this show escaped being turned into a movie. Turns out it WAS — in 1999. Who knew?
Click through for all the thrilling hippie action!
A Parent’s Guide to MMO Gaming
Someone needs to tell the truth about MMOs. I guess it falls to me to explain to parents about the games their children are playing online with people whose idea of a good conversation opener is “I AM SO HIGH.” World of Warcraft: Cataclysm by Activision Blizzard. In the original World of Warcraft, children could … Read more
Five Better Concepts for EverQuest Next?
It’s not wrong to be nostalgic. A lot of us old EverQuesters (as opposed to EverQuesties; we hate them!) have warm feelings toward what was, for many of us, our first MMO. Sure, the graphics were crude and the leveling was brutal, but there was the same sort of camaraderie based on shared suffering that … Read more
Yes, I’m still alive!
My Dragon Age: origins replay has been sucking away all my free time. But, that’s done with, for now, so I just have to write about it. Also, I changed the blog theme. Not 100% sure I like it, but I knew it was time to do something. You’ll notice (perhaps) that the XFire plug … Read more