Pixels: The 8-bit invasion of New York City

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Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Tetris, Pac-Man and other 80s icons make appearances in PIXELS, a short film featuring an 8-bit invasion of New York City. It’s a well-done little movie — I loved how the city is rapidly transformed by the pixelated attackers, and I thought having Donkey Kong throwing barrels from atop the Empire … Read more

Rush at the Allentown Fair

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Rush, one of my all-time favorite rock bands, is playing at the Allentown Fair on August 31. I didn’t start listening to them until my 20s, when they were already past their 70s/80s heyday, but once I did I didn’t waste time. I bought every album I could get my hands on and spent hours … Read more

Current Earworm: “I Want You To” by Weezer

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/cDIzMGh94vo” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I’ve had “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” by Weezer stuck in my head for the last week or so — so badly that I ended up buying the Raditude album just to get rid of the song. No dice: now I’ve … Read more

10 Days Until Pigs Fly

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This is a random post of baseball happiness: In 10 days I’ll be at my first IronPigs game of the season. It feels my heart with geeky baseball joy to know I’ll soon be hearing the sound of baseballs hitting leather and bats slamming balls into the outfield. If you’re into baseball and want follow … Read more

Renewing an expired GPG subkey

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I set my GPG key to expire annually, which was all well and good until it actually expired and I found myself needing to renew it. I was able to renew the primary key by expiring it, but unfortunately this only expired the primary key; the subkey remained expired, which in turn meant my key … Read more

After the Blizzard

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Here’s a few photos of College Hill after the storm. This is a shot of Porter Street, looking south. Our backyard transformed into a sort of winter candyland. The icicles of doom hanging over the alley between our house and that of our neighbor’s.

Of Firefox Crashes and Blocklists

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I’ve been having massive stability issues with Firefox 3.5/3.6 for the Mac for the last week or so, as Firefox got stuck in this crash-reboot-crash loop that I couldn’t break. My immediate fix was to launch Firefox in safe mode by holding down the [Option] key while clicking on the application icon (read the Firefox … Read more