Weekend 579.0
(1) We Need Kids to Be Real Rebels (Catholic Thing)
Anime: Japan in WWII
I had a little downtime this weekend and watched In This Corner of the World (2016) on ROKU. It’s a beautiful film and a reminder that the victims of war Continue Reading →
Weekend 578.0 (Retro Gaming, Baseball, and Nostalgia)
I couldn’t get the Box Score and Stats Compiler for Microleague Baseball to work on my APPLE IIE emulator but was able to on a Commodore 64 emulator. Scrambling now Continue Reading →
Playmobil News
I remember waking up one morning and learning that LGB ceased operations. They were later reorganized under Märklin. (1) GEOBRA BRANDSTÄTTER: CEO Höpfner terminates contract (Plasteurope.com) (2) Playmobil taps McKinsey Continue Reading →
Weekend 577.1
(1) Four good documentaries: Atari: Game OverSpecial When Lit: A Pinball DocumentaryThe Bug: Life and Times of the People’s Car30 Bikes: The Story of Homestead Bicycles (2) Finished my ATARI® Continue Reading →
Weekend 577.0 (README.TXT)
Blog maintenance this weekend as we get closer to the 20th Anniversary of Limestone Roof on August 21st. (1) On Museums and Windows (The Imaginative Conservative) “So a knowing eye Continue Reading →
ATARI® Retro Box
Inspired by the ART OF ATARI® and Sim Train World 3 to create some original retro box artwork. I think something related to Kingdom Hearts is next. Atari brings a Continue Reading →
Weekend 576.0
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive Palisades Park by the Counting Crows “The future sounds so crazyWe all heard that song beforeTomorrow’s Continue Reading →
Weekend 575.0
(1) More quotes from On Modernism’s Ruins: The Architecture of “Building Stories” and Lost Buildings by Daniel Worden: “For Samuelson, as for Ware, history is present through objects, and the Continue Reading →
Weekend 574.0
I got starry-eyed on the coaster rideAndy said, “Man, I need a break from the world outsideThese days, my life just careens through a pinball machineI could do so much Continue Reading →