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Coffee

Another silly quiz

What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are very passionate and quite temperamental. While you can be moody, you always crave comfort. You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but you're head is in the clouds. You see yourself with pretty objective eyes. How you view yourself is almost exactly how other people view you. Your near future is in a very different place (both physically and mentally) from where you are right now. For you, falling in love is all about the adventure and uncertainty. You can only fall in love with someone who keeps you guessing.

Inside the Room of Your Soul

My Pal, Coffee

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion 36% Stability 30% Orderliness 60% Accommodation 70% Interdependence 63% Intellectual 63% Mystical 30% Artistic 36% Religious 63% Hedonism 43% Materialism 63% Narcissism 50% Adventurousness 56% Work ethic 50% Self absorbed 36% Conflict seeking 10% Need to dominate 30% Romantic 83% Avoidant 10% Anti-authority 76% Wealth 43% Dependency 23% Change averse 70% Cautiousness 76% Individuality 56% Sexuality 90% Peter pan complex 30% Physical security 83% Physical Fitness 24% Histrionic 56% Paranoia 76% Vanity 63% Hypersensitivity 70% Female cliche 30%

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The Appeal of Computer Gaming

Ah, where to begin?

The allure of the computer game for me dates back to roll-out of personal computers in the early 1980s. Think about some of the oldest models:

Radio Shack's TRS-80
The Commodore Vic-20
The Commodore 64
The Apple IIc
The Franklin Ace 500
The Amiga 2000
The Apple IIgs
The Macintosh SE
The IBM PC

Computer gaming for me stretches back to 1978. I am not sure when Pong first came out, but a competing gaming console for the TV followed it around this time that featured “breakout.” Some would argue that the start of the video arcade fad should not be lumped in with “computer games” in the strict sense, but let’s face it: we were the same crowd. Space Invaders took discount store vending areas by storm, catching the attention of the amusement venue (pinball machines, cupie dolls). The transfer to personal computing did not take very long (1980?).

I remember the initial fascination that I had with this odd thing called a personal computer. When I visited a small plaza mall near where I lived, the Radio Shack sported a new electronic toy amidst the stereos: the TRS-80, by Tandy Corporation. The thing was slate gray, had CRT screen, separate keyboard, a cassette player, and an optional printer. All of this “software” on audio tapes were hanging in plastic bags arranged in a display. On the screen? You guessed it, a video game. I was hooked, and played with it for hours.

The games were not very sophisticated, and were usually blown away by the booming arcade-like TV consol games . . . the most commercially notable being the Atari. I owned the Commodore Vic 20 soon after my best friend upgraded to the Commodore 64. These were very clumsy computers, but would soon be replaced by the Apple II series of computers. This is where things started to change, for us Geeks.

My friend soon introduced me to the kind of games that you could play on the Apple IIc. The fine detail rendered on a small monochrome monitor, along with the ease of swapping out floppy disks made for a vast collection of stimulating, interactive games.
Some of the names included Stellar 7, Aztec, Bolo, Karateka, Choplifter, etc. The number seemed limitless, and the quality unsurpassed (by even arcade standards). They were much more intellectually stimulating than the mindless shoot-‘m-up aspect of the video games. This characteristic in gaming is what computer gamers seek even to this day.

So what are my favorites, today?

Call of Duty
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Doom III
Baldur’s Gate
Neverwinter Nights

I will go into detail on all of these in another post. I’m getting tired.

Letting the Cables Sleep - Bush

you in the dark you in the pain
you on the run
living a hell living your ghost
living your end
never seem to get in the place
that i belong
don't want to lose the time
lose the time to comewhatever you say it's alright
whatever you do it's all good
whatever you say it's alright
silence is not the way
we need to talk about it
if heaven is on the way
you in the sea on a decline
breaking the waves
watching the lights go down
letting the cables sleep
silence is not the way
we need to talk about it
if heaven is on the way
we'll wrap the world around it
if heaven is on the way
i'm a stranger in this town
i'm a stranger in this town