These are my links for February 25th through March 12th:

• GT Distributors – America’s Law Enforcement supply specialist –
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Dangerous! –
• Belts by The Belt Man –
• 1930 Art Deco Henderson –
• SIG forum –
• Garrison Brothers Distillery Texas Bourbon –
• Proposed Cuts Strike Teachers as Attacks on Their Value to Society – NYTimes.com –
• Gun Safes | Home Gun Safe | GunVault –
• STARSHIP PEGASUS :: SPACE AGE FUN FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY! –
• Monolithic — Home of the Monolithic Dome –
• Hand-Guns –
• SCP into Theory workstations from outside –
• Simple howtos –
• TxDPS – Applicant Fingerprinting Services –
• Mount&Blade/Companions –

A Visit to id Software from john romero on Vimeo.

In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993.

Shown are several of id’s employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack, Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects.

This video has 21 minutes of me playing DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.

And I do mean old. I will say that I had almost this exact same dot matrix printer that I used for many many years. Kudos on using the Spectrum, but the amazing thing to me is that the hard drives act as speakers.

Here it is… the remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” :

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

This video is of a 7 year old back in 1982 talking about programming on some local access show. He demonstrates coding BASIC on an Apple ][.

This strikes a chord with me, because around the exact same time, at around the same age, I went to a summer camp for budding computer nerds in the deserts of southern California. It was the same scenario too, we were kids learning BASIC on Apple ][. Our imaginations were fueled by shows like Whiz Kids and movies like WarGames. Not to mention the explosion of science fiction novels at the time. I still have the binder I used to map out my programs and keep printouts of them some 25 years ago.

I’ve never shaken that love of computers and programming, and I’m glad I got to grow up with it. Now that computers are ubiquitous, “hackers” aren’t such special snowflakes, but I still feel the nostalgia of when it was a budding science and I was still a bud myself.

Man, this website really is turning into a blog. So be it.