← Feed

Posts

• Post #1990488

  While I knew it was Larry King's (very distinctive) voice cameoing in Ghostbusters, I wasn't aware that that was his first-- but definitely not last-- cameo in film and TV. He went on to do a lot more cameos. Some people just have a very distinctive voice. I'd recognize Larry King (and a number of other TV/radio hosts) instantly.

• Post #1990487

  Still alive, still recovering from last week's gauntlet of appointments. One funny bit of news: I let myself get talked into entering a semi-local arcade's Street Fighter 2 Turbo tournament. Single elimination, 12 competitors. Despite being very out of practice, I won. There were some very, very good competitors in there. Somehow I find myself looking forward to challenging them again someday.

• Post #1990486

  Picking up and reading a book at two years old definitely counted.

• Post #1990485

  Four hours from now I'll be unconscious for the first half of the 2026 spine ablations. It'll probably be several weeks before the effects become apparent, though. Takes time for muscles to relax/heal.

• Post #1990484

  Survived. We'll see how I feel in two or three weeks.

• Post #1990483

  Hot take: I think the Tandy 1000 line ends up being the most important IBM compatible because it held the line long enough for machines capable of beating the Amiga to show up. It was relatively cheap, had decent (for the time) sound and graphics, ran most IBM PC apps. It just needed to hold out long enough for the final generation of MS-DOS machines to have VGA/SVGA and SoundBlaster.

• Post #1990482

  Heh, well.. while the speeds have been fixed, it appears they're not done with the fiber transition in my neighborhood; my connection has been offline for ~6 hours straight today and it doesn't look like it'll be coming back up for another 2-3 hours. Things are still looking up, though.

• Post #1990481

  I'm being a little vague about this on purpose, sorry: I'm currently being extremely introspective about recent events and a very long-term problem having been finally fixed. Between that former issue, and my health, I'd stopped doing Twitch broadcasts for the most part last fall. I'd.. kind of just given up and lost all hope. I feel like trying to go back to a regular schedule is both a good and a bad idea and going back on my word.. so I'm asking a fe...