Visiting the Handheld Games Museum

Before (and early on, concurrent with) the wide proliferation of the Atari 2600, and way before Game Boys and PSPs, there were dedicated handheld electronic games. They’re charmingly primitive today, but they were as hot as it got most of 30 years ago. Mostly, the early games presented all of the game components as LEDs. … Read more

iPhone

Oh, but that is so trick. At $299, we’ll talk. $599? Can’t do it, Steve. Sorry. Cell phones, no matter what else they do, should share no pricing territory with laptops.

Adventures in starch and poultry

I was in an adventurous fast food mood, and not the omnipresent baseline-8%-chance-of-food-poisoning sort of adventurous that accompanies any fast food visit. I mean I wanted something I hadn’t had before. Having previously ribbed the KFC Famous Bowl (unjustly inasmuch as it was based on no direct experience), and thinking chicken sounded OK, that’s what … Read more

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