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I hadn't run for more a week after finishing last weekend's 50-miler, so on Saturday I headed out for an easy neighborhood run.
I had been feeling pretty good during the week, so I was somewhat surprised at how absolutely terrible this run felt. Everything ached - every muscle group in my legs was sore, and I felt like I had gained about 30 pounds (10, I could believe - but 30 seemed high even for a binger like me.)
The run was only 4 miles, but it felt like 40. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. After all, running 50 miles must take its toll on the body somehow, right? I misread my lack of resting soreness as a sign that I was ready to run again.
A full recovery will probably take weeks, but that's OK by me - I've got nothing on the calendar until springtime.
Additionally, today was the first day of the year that I had to wear long pants. California's central coast has a generally mild climate and somewhat different seasons than the traditional calendar would indicate.
We seldom have tempurature extremes, or severe weather like thunderstorms or blizzards, so I keep track of the seasons by what I need to wear for my morning run. I'll write more about this later.
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Several Chicopee officers and state police troopers were honored for their role in last year's Chicopee standoff during an awards ceremony in Boston on Friday.
Twenty people who responded to the two-hour April 2012 incident were among those to receive awards. Ten Massachusetts state troopers, nine Chicopee police officers and one civilian received a medal for their bravery that day.
"It was extremely dangerous - the assailant had a semi-automatic rifle, he had fired over 100 rounds, there was probably anywhere from 100 to 150 civilians in the area," said acting Chicopee police Chief Thomas Charette.
The standoff ended with a trooper wounded and the shooter dead.
"The cruiser started getting hit first and obviously I didn't realize I was getting shot at until I started getting glass in the face and I had nowhere to go," said Trooper John Vasquez.
Vasquez told reporters he has since recovered from his wounds. He was awarded the Medal of Honor at the ceremony, but he says his bravery was no more than all the other officers who responded that day.
"It's nice to be recognized and I think everybody that was there should have been recognized, but me being me I don't think I did anything more than what they did," said Vasquez.
And even though many of the officers say that they greatly appreciate today's award, they say responding to calls like the one in Chicopee is just part of the job.
"We did what we had to do, we'll do it again tomorrow - today if we need to do it," said Chicopee Officer Johnny Justino.
"It just goes to show the courage and the training and dedication of the members and the police department in Chicopee as well as the state police," said Charette.
In total more than 60 people received awards during the ceremony.
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CHICAGO | A former furniture delivery man from Dolton has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with the home invasion and armed robbery of a pregnant customer, according to a news release from the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Judge William Lacy sentenced Darren Remmer, 40, on Tuesday to 25 years in prison. A jury convicted Remmer in December of home invasion and armed robbery.
On May 12, 2011, Remmer was working for a Dolton furniture store when he delivered children's furniture to a customer in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, the release states. While setting up the furniture, Remmer told the pregnant customer some screws were missing and he would return with them and finish the job
When he returned a few days later, Remmer told the woman he had the screws and began fixing the furniture but then approached the woman with a box cutter, demanding jewelry, according to the release. When she told him she didn't have jewelry, he demanded she give him a safe in the house. She complied and Remmer left the house with the safe.
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The Brazilian meat producer will consider liability management exercises in 2014, depending on the spreads on its existing bonds, says Sergio Rial
Brazil-based meat producer Marfrig could launch further debt
buyback or tender offers next year, depending on how its bonds
trade, its chief executive has told LatinFinance.
firm bought back just over half of its $375m 2016 bond in
September, funded through the sale of a new 2021 bond.
"The recent funding and tender for the 2016 was really aimed
at eliminating any important maturities for us between now and
2017," Sergio Rial, the chief executive, said. "I'm glad to
report that we have been able to accomplish that. We have no
important maturities in this period, which I think is
Marfrig is aiming to cut its leverage, and so it does not
plan to offer new debt, Rial said. The firm reported net debt
of 6.7 billion reais ($2.9 billion) at the end of the third
quarter, with an average cost of 7.8%.
"Our approach would be to continue to monitor the market to
seize any opportunity to reignite our liability management
process," he said. The company would want its spreads to
compress further before considering a new liability management
"We're trading, relative to some peers, 300 basis points
higher. At this point in time there should be no fundamental
reason for that. That will be a function of us continuing to
present better results," says Rial.
Marfrig reported a net loss, stripped of foreign exchange
variations and the cost of transferred debt, of 92.5 million
reais in the third quarter, although net revenues at the group
rose 15% year on year to 4.9 billion reias.
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Plano, TX - April 21, 2014
In its tenth year of sharing the Gospel, Global Media Outreach (GMO) is celebrating the milestone of presenting the Gospel more than 1 billion times to people all over the world. On April 21, a visit to one of GMO's Gospel websites tipped the scales in favor of the ministry's new goal: Going beyond a billion.
"I was looking for something else and this ad came up here, I made the decision," wrote Rafael, a seeker from Mexico, who viewed a Gospel presentation online. I'm asking for your help to understand all about Jesus," wrote Rafael.
Since 2004, the ministry has received millions of messages just like Rafael's from people across the globe who have viewed a Gospel presentation and have requested to be discipled by the ministry's team of nearly 9,000 Online Missionaries.
"With 91 percent of humans living within range of a cell tower, the majority of seekers come to our sites from their cell phones. We see technology moving so rapidly and so dramatically across the earth, we know God Himself is making this possible," said Walt Wilson, founder and chairman of Global Media Outreach.
Because of technology, GMO's Gospel presentations are far reaching--even being accessed by those who live in countries where Christians face rejection and persecution because of their faith.
"I've been threatened with death because we embraced the Christian religion. For your information we are a group of 20 young people from the Republic of Yemen," wrote a seeker named Sam.
As a leader in Internet evangelism, GMO stays on the cutting edge of technology to disciple and minister to others--including those who can't connect with Christians in their own community. People all over the world are hungry for the Gospel, and GMO is focused on going beyond a billion to reach all those who hunger for Christ.
View live tracking of people all over the globe visiting GMO sites and being exposed to the Gospel at www.GreatCommission2020.com. Experience how seekers are growing in their faith by visiting www.GodLife.com or www.DiosyVida.com.
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Global Media Outreach's (GMO) vision is to give every person on earth multiple opportunities to accept Jesus Christ – see hundreds of millions receive Him – build them in the faith and connect them to Christian communities in every country. GMO uses the Internet, mobile devices and social media in multiple languages to share the Good News of Jesus Christ across the globe. For more information about Global Media Outreach, visit www.globalmediaoutreach.com.
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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Governor Haley Barbour gave his final State of the State address Tuesday night.
Gov. Barbour commended a job well done to the State Legislature.
"Thank you for all you've done to change our state for the better," Gov. Barbour said. "And thanks for all you're going to do to make sure we keep moving forward."
He announced item number one on his agenda to add 100 troopers to Mississippi roads from $7.3 million of Governor discretionary stimulus funds.
Barbour also said he's going to use $40 to $50 million in Medicaid surplus to add home and community based care to 7,800 beneficiaries statewide.
Overall, it's job creation that's stuck with members of the legislature.
"And he his definitely his mark on our state because of the thousands of jobs he's helped create," said State Senator Lee Yancey, Brandon-R.
Long-time state politician and Democratic Representative Steve Holland said Gov. Barbour has been one of the most influential governor's in history.
"He's been absolute most politically powerful governor in history that's ever sat in this chair and he got basically what he wanted in his seven/eight years," Rep. Holland said.
Meantime, the Governor talked about improving education in the state.
He asked lawmakers to consider, once again, adding charter schools in Mississippi.
He also recommended a dual enrollment program for high school students to earn college credits.
Lastly, he said it's time Mississippi adds a Civil Rights Museum to downtown Jackson.
"He is well aware of what drives Mississippi and what is important. And his focus has really benefited us all," said Sen. Billy Hewes, Gulfport-R.
In response to the Governor's last State of the State, Democratic leaders say it's a bi-partisan effort that will move the state forward.
"We know that the state budget will be tight," said Rep. Cecil Brown, Jackson-D. "But Democratic and Republican leaders in the state House and Senate have already started working together on bi-partisan funding plan."
As Gov. Barbour begins his final chapter as the state's leader, he says it's Mississippi's resiliency that will continue to move the state forward.
"The country and the world have a new image of our state. So it's up to us to meet the challenge," Barbour said. "Better said, it's up to us to meet the opportunity."
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U.S. Marshal John Foster harbors no malice toward his elementary school bullies.
In fact, he forgives them and is trying to help not only the victims of bullying but the bullies themselves.
"Sometimes I wonder if they were hurting," he said of his elementary school bullies. "What would have happened if someone would have helped them?"
That's why Foster is participating in a program started by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Officials hope this program will change the bullies and the victims for the better.
"Hopefully, some kid somewhere may rethink bullying someone," Foster said adding that he hopes the victims, consequently, will speak out about being bullied and not try to keep things hidden.
Goodwin said he was inspired to create this program after a few instances of violence and threats of violence in schools across the state and nation. Goodwin also wanted to get out and engage students on their levels about bullying.
"It's not snitching to talk about someone being a bully," Goodwin said. "It could be quite heroic."
The program is taken into middle and elementary schools across the state.
"You have to start young — real young. … Teachers at the (federal correction institute in Beckley) posed a question to students. When do you interact to make sure they are choosing the right path? They agreed that you have to catch them between the ages of 7 and 9. If you try much later, they will say they were on the street or already on the wrong path."
This answer came as a surprise to Goodwin.
"It was a real eye-opener for me," he said. "I have two little boys who are 8 and 10. … I see every day what an 8-year-old is and that's the age where you have to make sure they are on the right path. That's why we are focusing on middle and elementary school students."
Goodwin later approached Foster to speak with him at one of the schools. That's when Foster told him he had a personal story to share.
"It struck a chord with me where I had been bullied and I saw the power in testimonies in my program at church," Foster said.
Foster grew up in Rand and he says his family "really didn't have a whole lot" but had enough to still be a content family.
"I was a quiet, very uncoordinated kid," he recalled.
The bullying started in first grade and Foster said he "felt out of place."
"Even the first grade was hard for me," he said. "For whatever reason — I really don't know why, I started getting picked on. And the more I was picked on, the worse I did in school."
Years went by, the bullying continued and Foster's grades still slipped. Foster admits he started to believe what his bullies said about him.
But there was one name he absolutely would not tolerate.
"They would call me a name that would just irritate me to no end — that was retard. My brother, Butchy, was absolutely beautiful and he was severely mentally handicapped."
Butchy never walked or talked, but Foster says when he smiled, he "lit up the entire room."
But tragedy struck Foster's family when the family home caught fire.
"My mother was in front of the house and Butchy was in the back bedroom. All the flames were in the hallway and she knew she couldn't go that way. She went to the backdoor but it was locked. She took her fist and broke the glass. I don't know if that got the door open but flames shot out and it caught fire to her arms and hair," Foster recalled.
His brother did not make it out of the fire.
"That's the part that is hardest for me to tell," he said. "I can remember that like it was yesterday. I still smell the smoke on my mom."
Foster went back to school and the bullying did not stop.
"One day, I was walking down the street and some older boys encircled me and started beating me," he said. "Most were in junior high and high school. I don't know why they did it. To this day, I don't know."
Since Foster played sandlot football, he says it wasn't unusual to come home with bumps and bruises. But hiding this experience is his biggest regret.
"They need to let someone know that this is going on their life," Foster said.
Luckily, the bullying stopped when Foster got in ninth grade. He still had problems in school, but things in his life were getting better.
Foster graduated, went to college, got married and later ended up working in the National Guard, at a fire station and the West Virginia state Police. He later received the opportunity to go into the U.S. Marshal service.
"I was fortunate," he said. "Some kids are bullied far worse than me. Some never stop being bullied to the day they graduate. I try to encourage and try to prevent this from happening to them."
Goodwin said studies indicate there is as much as a 60 percent chance that school bullies will end up in prison by the time they are in their early 20s.
This was the case with Foster's bullies as well.
"Those boys who beat me that one day, in an ironic twist, I transported one of them to prison," he said. "He knew me but barely even remembered me. I never brought it up. He told me the other kid with him that I knew was in prison. I took no pleasure in them being in prison."
Foster and Goodwin have made several visits to schools since that first speech hoping to stop bullying in its tracks.
"I tell them if they are on that path to prison, they will meet me and Mr. Foster in our professional capacity," Goodwin said. "My philosophy is every bit as much about preventing crime."
As for Foster, he hopes he can inspire kids to stop bullying and for victims to reach out to a family member, teacher or school counselor to get help.
"I tell them I have been married for 31 years, have two wonderful children, a bachelor's degree and two associate degrees. I tell them the reason I say all of that is to let them know that no one can determine their future or success. No one can. No one knows where they are going to be."


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ClickClickJim aka Jim Stevenson reading about himself in Brighton Source Magazine, I always prefer to check out the Street Style section but each to there own.
Jim is the creator of the excellent MiniClick talks. During the Brighton Photo Fringe festival MiniClick is putting on a load of events that including a Phoot Camp talk that curated last week. Tonight is gonna be a good one: Maciej Dakowicz will be speaking about his work including his Cardiff After Dark project. Check out the full MiniClick line up here loads of not to missed events!
Don't to forget to check the Phoot Camp exhibition I have up as part of the festival.
A man floats on a truck tire with supplies of beer as floods advance into central Bangkok on October 26, 2011. (via Thailand flood reaches Bangkok - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
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Shot at photo camp 2011. Follow the Phoot Camp blog on Tumblr to see the other attendees work.
Slowly uploaded my Phoot 2011 shots to Flickr check out the rest in this Flickr set more on the way.
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I've typed CJ on two of these blogs, my mistake, it's Earl Watson, not CJ
And now we have the 3rd string pt guard in CJ Watson from the Jazz. Veteran backup who is a decent defender and ball handler. Not and offensive threat by any stretch. Sort of Ronnie Price-like?
This will probably wrap up our free agent, draft class additions for the upcoming season. I think getting Wright from Philly was a good pickup. I know people wanted Asik, (as did I) but I think he's going to get way too much money for his skillset. Lopez was affordable and will be a decent stopgap. For those who didn't like our offseason moves, I did! Our bench is substantially
3 way deal with Sac and New Orleans giving us Robin Lopez for future draft picks and cash considerations.
Eric signed a two year deal with the Wizards today and his short stay in Portland was a good bridge for him and Damian. I wish him all the luck and hope he gets plenty of burn in DC..he played college ball in Virginia so it's like going home for him! I always was a fan of his game.
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My name is Chris Biehn, age 16, and I have my own TV show called The World Around Us. I'm also the author of a novel I wrote in 6th grade titled True Heaven. This blog will have information on things that are happening in the world along with information about Biehn Team, a charity organization founded by myself. I am primarily interested in politics, entertainment, sports, music, comedy, and traveling. Thanks for checking this out, and I follow back!
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Raiders of the Lost Archives
Two weeks ago, my Dad shipped me a box that, to my joy, contained the original Apple II Prince of Persia source code archive I'd stowed away 20 years ago and had given up for lost.
Despite my eagerness to see what's on those disks, I've yet to pop them in a drive. As readers of this site have cautioned me, digital media degrade with age; if the disks are in a fragile state, normal handling could damage them further and even render them unreadable.
In today's guest post, digital archivist Jason Scott explains why reading 20-year-old floppy disks is trickier than it sounds — and why he's volunteered to fly from NY to LA on Monday with special equipment to tackle the job himself.
Monday will be an exciting day. Much like opening a long-sealed sarcophagus, I truly have no idea whether we'll find what we're hoping for, or just data dust. For anyone who wants to share the suspense, we'll be live-tweeting our progress. Hashtag: #popsource. (I wanted to use #sourcecode, but it was taken!)
Meanwhile, here's Jason's story, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of a profession whose existence I couldn't have foreseen or imagined when I was making Prince of Persia in the 1980s: Digital archeologist.
I first heard about Prince of Persia in a somewhat strange fashion; a high school friend said that David's older brother was working on a new game to follow up his big hit Karateka. I asked what it was about, and he said it was something about Persian princes and acrobatics. I left it at that, but I knew it'd be great, if Karateka was any indication.
I went to Horace Greeley High School after Jordan, and knew his brother, David, who graduated the same year as me. David was the motion model for Prince of Persia. Jordan was this talented figure somewhere out in the fog of the real world, who was making actual, sold-everywhere games with a company I really liked and respected (Broderbund), and was basically living the dream I hoped to live one day: game developer.
(My own dream was fulfilled — I did work for a short time at Psygnosis, makers of Wipeout, as a tech support phone monkey, and another year stint at a startup game studio, before moving on to other places in the computer world.)
It wasn't until a couple years ago that I moved away from jobs like system administration and backup-watcher into the world of computer history and documentary filmmaking, where I am now. As one of the Adjunct archivists of the Internet Archive, I seek out new collections of data and help preserve current ones — anything from digitized books and audio to long-forgotten shareware CD-ROMs and obscure information files uploaded years ago. It's a great time, and most importantly, it affords me the flexibility to travel when I'm needed somewhere.
So this was why, when Jordan announced he'd gotten back the Prince of Persia disks he had in his own collection, a lot of friends of mine started linking me to the article and saying "Well?" It was a perfect fit. I had seen Jordan for a few moments after his recent appearance at GDC, so it made sense to have us talk about my coming in to oversee the retrieval of data from the disks. What a nice journey — from hearing the game was being worked on in my youth to helping make sure Jordan's work lasts for future generations!
Pulling data off dead media in the present day is both easier than it ever has been, and as frustrating as ever. (When I say "dead," I mean the format. You can't really go down to the local store and buy a box of 5.25″ floppy disks any more, nor would you want to — a USB stick will give you well over a million times the space and cost you almost nothing.) Thanks to a lot of work by a lot of different people, pulling the data off these floppies can now be as simple as putting it into a vintage disk drive, or a modified recent one, and pulling the individual sectors right into a file that can go into the internet in seconds. But just as it's so trivial to do this, any clever tricks done to the floppy that made sense way back then could make it a puzzle wrapped in a goose chase to extract. Not to mention, these discs are old — in this case, at least twenty years old, and they're just magnetic flaps of plastic sealed inside a couple of other sheets of plastic. A lot can go wrong, and no extraction is guaranteed.
It's the Friday before I hop into a plane in NY — ironically, just miles from where Jordan's disks had rested comfortably in the back of a closet for 20 years — to Los Angeles, where he works and lives these days. Once I arrive there, I'll be joined at the site by someone I reached out and tapped due to his reputation within and outside the Apple II community: Tony Diaz. He's one of a tireless group of vintage hardware and software collectors working to ensure an entire swath of computing history isn't lost to the shadows. With a collection of Apple-related hardware that is likely one of the largest in the world, accompanied by attempts to catalog and document as much of it as possible, I knew Tony would be the best partner in this project. Tony will be bringing over a pile of Apple II hardware, maintained and cleaned, ready to take these vintage floppies in.
However, not all of these disks are off-the-shelf in terms of their formats. Since Jordan did work with a commercial game company, and because there were attempts to prevent wholesale
duplication of these for-sale games at the time, some these floppies have various levels of "copy protection" on them — modifications in how the data is written, in-code checks to analyze the floppy disk's state and run or not run based on the result, and so on. I'm not here to start a debate on whether this was the right or wrong move at the time — there's plenty of screen space spent on that discussion elsewhere. But it does translate to a headache for the present day when a straight disk read doesn't just "work."
Enter pieces of hardware such as the DiscFerret, CatWeasel, and Kryoflux — all of them modern hardware dedicated to pulling magnetic readings of the floppy disks, eschewing any cares about operating system, structure and copy protection. Think of them as taking a magnetic photograph of the disk. There's quite a bit of science involved and a lot of debates on what the best approach is for getting the data, but on the whole, the principle is the same: make a floppy drive read the magnetic flux of the floppy, not unlike how a medical scanner approaches the human body, and from that "image," pull out what the data setup is on the floppy. This resulting magnetic image is huge, size-wise, relative to the original floppies — these 140k (that's kilobytes) floppies will have a multiple-megabyte magnetic read result from it. But we're in the space-car future; that mass of data is nothing to us now.
This week, the DiscFerret team has been working overtime, pulling some all-nighters to test and fabricate a hardware setup to do the magnetic readings, and that machinery was packed and FedExed to Jordan yesterday. The in-depth details of what hurdles have to be taken into account with some floppy drive hardware is outside the scope of this already-long post, but rest assured, there are hurdles, and success is not guaranteed.
And let's make that clear — we have no idea what's on these floppies! When we bring them in, they could be completely empty (although that is really, really, really unlikely). Factors from quality of manufacture to storage method to phase of the moon could lead to there being lost data. But be assured we're going in with the respect these artifacts deserve.
See everyone in La-La land!
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Years ago I managed to transfer to the PC some of my old Apple disks with early BASIC programs. I'm glad I was able to keep those memories alive so I can reminisce about how everything began
Wishing you guys luck next monday, that's gonna be exciting!
I'm really excited about that. Wish you luck. Fingers crossed. Is there any chance, that you take some video of the restoration process ?
I'm curious to know what's on those disks! I wish you a lot of good luck and hope you'll get some digital source code treasures by reading the disks! (And not the ones you can share on facebook games)
I'll be following your live tweets on monday!
Do you have the sources of other platforms, like DOS or Mac, or are they lost "too"?
Good luck with Jordan, Jason, and Tony. I hope you can recover your source code and other files. Am on the edge of my seat here waiting to hear and see how you get on. This is sooooooooo exciting !!!
Back in 1999/2000, I purchased an Apple ][c and used ADTPro to recover some of my old Apple ][ work from the early 1980's from all of the disks that I had left (many had been thrown out in the early 1990's when my parents moved house and my store room was cleaned out. I would never have thrown them out, but I was living and working on the other side of the planet at the time).
I played Karateka many times in the 1980's, and laughed my head off when the lady first punched my lights out at the end. Great fun ! I've also purchased the original Prince of Persia for the PC – still got it here with me.
Good luck with Jordan, Jason, and Tony.
Jordan: Thank you for allowing the retro community to assist you in archiving these precious relics. That is an amazing piece of history in that box.
Tony/Jason: You guys rock. Thanks for archiving those disks like a boss!
Great post and amazing work !
Got a look at the github released source code, the 6502 assembly code is very well commented and very understandable !
Hello Jordan! Under what license have you published this sources?
Hi Jordan,
A few years back I played Prince of Persia in my browser hosted on a web site which I cannot recall. It was really close to the DOS version of POP I played as a kid. How did they re-create it in Flash?
I archived all my A2 media using a small machine language program on the A2, an Apple SuperSerial card, and a modern laptop running Linux.
The machine language program simply reads each track into a buffer, then uses the built-in hex dumper to spew it to the screen. By setting PR#2 and IN#2, I redirect all input/output to the serial port, which is then captured by the Linux box running minicom.
This save file is _plain_text_, and therefore easily compressed, saved (heck, printed and filed). A small C program on the Linux box reads the hex dump and turns it back into a stream of bytes which when saved to a file is an image of the disk.
Protected software is a bit trickier, but most of that I had cracked at the time into normal DOS 3.3 floppies. A source code floppy is probably not protected at all.
BTW, do you need any software to turn the source code back into executables? I still have EDASM, SC-MACRO, and I think Merlin.
Thanks for this awesome piece of history! Has anyone else tried to compile and run it? I downloaded the AppleWin emulator, and tried to use as6502 as a compiler, but I don't even know if I'm going in the right direction. I think we need a makefile of some sort. Sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Well, I'll try more stuff.
It might have some Merlinisms.
I'd like to see if it could be rerolled. Actually, *I*'d personally be interested in seeing brand-new unofficial ports, like the recent C64 version.
Part of me wants to hone my skills and port this code to the PC Engine, because the port it got a couple decades ago sucked and the PCE deserved better.
I have a printed copy of the source code for my degree project. Just as well, as I haven't seen a working 5.25″ floppy drive for a PC in years. Paper hardcopies are the future!
Why would diskettes holding source code be copy protected? That doesn't make any sense. Nobody would do that.
those 5¼" floppies were usually 800k, but some of them reached 1.2 megs. Right now, 8 gig flash drives cost 10-20$, so it's 6-10,000x larger, not well over a million.
You can get a 2TB hard drive for a hundred bucks, thats well over a million times larger. The biggest are up to 4TB.
@thomas – Apple II 5.25″ floppies (Disk ][) were 143k and single-sided. 3.5″ floppies were 800k.
Hi all !
Good luck
I have a personal original copy of apple II Karateka & prince of persia ( i baught them many years ago on @bay ) and I know these are very difficult game to find nowadays
My family every time say that I am wasting my
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Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014
by Zog
It was a beautiful Arcata day for the start of the annual Kinetic Grand Championship. Racers seemed to be focused on their machines this year. There wasn't the usual fire-breathing spectacle, but there a lot of mid-sized machines, heavy on gears and muscle. Everyone made an effort to bring something at least a little new this time. Listening to the interviews with the judges, I definitely got the impression that they were looking for something novel as well as functional.
If I had to pick a favorite this year, I'd go with this shark. The lower jaw doesn't have a center, so kids could stand in it to get their picture taken in the jaws.This is the first time I think an entry has been too seaworthy. It would have had a better look if it had rode a little lower in the water. It floated at about wheel level.
This starship Enterprise lookalike was called Star Trukkers. It had a nice clean look and seemed to perform well.
Hell on axles was certainly vibrant.
I don't know anything about these guys, but I really like something about the design. It looked comfortable, something like pedalling around on a reclining couch. Normally, I would be concerned about being able to stop without just rolling around like a hamster in an out of control hamster wheel, but the low center of gravity and two person seating really makes this one seem stable and easy to control.
Race Like an Egyptian had, ahem, quite a prow on it. Didn't do so hot when it hit water. Not the most streamlined float ever, but an entertaining entry.
Blue Oyster Cult. I'm a bit puzzled, but googly eyes make everything better. Nice barnacles too.
Lost Coast Mutnineers. We've seen better pirate ships, but this one had the engineering to make it work well.
This thing needed some dry ice or something, but it looked good for how little there was to it. I'd be interested to see one of the big players run with this idea in metal and propane.
I don't know the story behind this one. I like it, but I wish they had used the screw for water propulsion, or at least had it spinning.
They were calling this one Cloud of Unknowing. I'm going with Crowd of Unknowing. Supposedly the most drivers ever in one entry at a dozen. One of these years, someone is going to refit an old school bus with bicycle propulsion in all the seats and enter it in the race. It does seem like the ones with more people function pretty well, but I've been seeing an increase in the number of entries that have a bunch of people pedaling like mad to propel something at a fast walk.
Here's Duane Flatmo in his Doomed Buggy. Not his usual spectacular entry, but it's always good to see him in the race. This one was a bit front heavy (I've seen the back wheel come off the ground a few times) and flipped over going down Dead Man's Drop. Duane suffered only minor injuries and was right back in the pilot's seat.
Thank you to all of the people who worked so hard for our entertainment. I look forward to next year.
Chain Making Machine Animation
by Zog
I've worked with a few machines similar to this, and I've always found them a pleasure to watch. They are generally just controlled by a series of switches. Once one part reaches its intended position, it hits a switch which stops it and starts the next part moving. It's crazy to think that the cells in our bodies are constructed in a similar fashion, though the logic is made of complex molecular bonding.
Watermelon Carving – Jack (Frost) o' Lantern
by Zog
So I went to the store in search of Halloween supplies, and what do I find? Aisles and aisles of Christmas stuff. This year I just decided to roll with it. I put up the Christmas lights, and we dressed up as Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the Grinch, and handed out candy canes to the trick or treaters, blaring Christmas music.
Of course, no Halloween would be complete without carving a Jack o' Lantern. I skipped the pumpkins and hit the melon aisle, choosing out a watermelon, a honeydew, and a mini watermelon. After removing the skin they were a nice snowy white, with Christmasy red and green interiors. I stacked 'em up and carved a wicked snowman, complete with carrot nose and twigs for arms, and then packed him with Christmas lights. The results were pretty awesome for how easy it was. Of course now the neighborhood thinks we're crazy, but I can live with that.
For the Christmas lights, I used a string of these fairy lights I found dirt cheap on amazon. I'm super impressed with them. They are LED, so they are cool and low energy, the string is really flexible, the lights are really tiny and bright, and it has a controller with several different blink/steady burn options. These melons can't handle the heat of a candle. This isn't the first time I've tried this. I'm pretty proud of my previous watermelon skull and brain carving.
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Pastels on the Plaza 2013 – Arcata
by Zog
Pastels on the Plaza was clearly scheduled by either a gambler or someone who doesn't have to sit on the cement for five hours. Being about a month into the season of varying weather that is the Arcata norm, it is always worrying that it may be windy or rainy (as it has been in the past week) but this time it worked out. This was quite possibly the clearest, calmest day I've ever seen in Arcata.
This year, I had my mom in town, so I figured I'd do something tougher than usual under the assumption that she would bail me out if I got in over my head. Above is our end result. I'm pleased with it, though I always feel like I want to go back down there and fix some things after looking at my photos. This event is like running a mile race; long enough to be tiring, but short enough to make you feel like you could have run harder. My concept for the piece was a woman sitting in her window on a winter day, enjoying her garden, with a vase of cut flowers. It was done for local landscaper and garden writer Genevieve Schmidt
Above is an art nouveau peacock done for Holly Yashi by Leah Vaughn.
Below is her husband Casey Vaughn's work for Plaza. Three of the toughest things to do on the rough sidewalk are smoothness, fine details, and perspective. He managed all three. To quote a passer by, "It's a chair, but it's cool".
You may remember Susan Devine's dragon on the Trinidad lighthouse from last year. This year she brings us a dreamscape for Barbara Rips:
I think my favorite square of the day was for SuddenLink. It was kind of hard to find since it was behind some giant sandwich board from the neighboring square. The background wasn't much, but the horse was exceptional.
The neighboring square, for armack, clearly had a fantastic artist and self-important planning. Not only did it take up the entirety of the sidewalk, it also came with a large sandwich board placed in front of the previous square.
The Pacific Builders square was cute:
This elephant looks like a great collaboration between several artists for Gallagher's Irish Pub. I love how they got the texture on the trunk. If you zoom in, it looks like there is some real dimension there.
This one is from Baroni (and sometimes Y). The artist did a beautiful job on her first solo year.
And this crystallized sea dragon for the Big Blue Cafe was very nice (click for full image)
And finally, a shout out to the Six RIvers Montessori people in the square next to me. Their kids were courteous, personable, and responsible; a better advertisement than any pastel square.
Thank you to the businesses who donated money for the Children's Center in order to reserve a square, the artists who volunteered their time, everyone who came down to cheer us on, and to whoever put the farmer's market around us. It was nice to have them there rather than a bunch of traffic. Same time next year.
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2013 – Arcata – Ferndale
by Zog
Humboldt County's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race started off this year with unseasonably nice weather, with the throngs being shamed by the stigma of getting a sunburn in Humboldt County, a feat normally accomplished only by the most pallid of individuals.
The above entry may look familiar, but it is not a rework of last year's entry, it was there in addition. They are both beautifully animated and controlled by the pilots. These things were definitely a favorite, especially of the children, and if they can continue to produce more, I think they could become an attraction all on their own.
The HMS Lady Luck is an interesting piece of engineering as well as sculpture and performance art. The mast seemed to be worked in as a steering system rather than a method of propulsion, and the many sideways people providing propulsion you may remember from previous incarnations like Gloryopolis and Classical Nudes.
The Post-Apocalyptic Cockroach won some awards for speed and engineering. I don't know about the apocalypse, but it looks like the pilots could survive a massive hailstorm with nothing but hearing damage. I've seen those tires in an local outdoor store and they look huge on a bicycle, but I think they must be much more efficient on the road than the much bigger tires of most of the competition. I saw them at the bottom of Dead Man's drop and they seem to have gotten through all the sand and cliff quickly, which I would have expected to be their biggest challenge.
I sometimes give the entrants a hard time for not changing their sculptures from year to year, but there are obvious exceptions. Duane Flatmo brought back his fire-breathing Snapdragon and won the Spectator's Favorite award, a clear sign that the crowds are happy to see it again.
These guys crack me up. There's nothing like coming over a hill to find a group of safari guys carrying a giant dead ant up a sand dune to make you feel like you've fallen into a parallel universe. I think it is also an odd case of something getting better as it was simplified. They started out with a fire engine, then stuck the ant on top of it, and now took away the fire engine to make what I think is the best of the three.
This puffer fish sculpture sponsored by Mr. Fish is a classic which keeps changing species each year.
I'm putting these guys up as an honorable mention. They're a bit light on the sculpture, but they look ready to race in style and comfort. If I had to commute several miles a day over land and sea, I think this is how I'd want to travel.
Gear Design – Differential
by Zog
Designing gears is often a matter of knowing what needs to be done, but having trouble imagining into existence the perfect set of gears for the job. The above video does a great job of showing how a simple concept was refined into the elegance of design that is the modern differential gear that allows a single drive to rotate multiple wheels on a vehicle at optimal speeds to prevent slipping.
An Introduction to Wave Principles
by Zog
The above video is an old timey introduction to waves, using a mesmerizing mechanical simulator to demonstrate the main principles.
A basic understanding of waves can be helpful in inventing, since the principles are so similar across very different kinds of waves. Tesla was into waves, and they have applications in electrical theory. The way they build, cancel, resonate, and travel through different materials is central to understanding sound, music, vibration, earthquakes, tsunamis, light, color, economic prediction, and…well, I'll stop listing things now, so you can watch the video in peace.
Pastels on the Plaza 2012
by Zog
Pastels on the Plaza 2012. What a beautiful morning in Arcata California. Around here, a sunburn is a mark that you have just returned from distant lands with "summer" and "shadows". Well. believe it or not Arcatians, I got a pretty good sunburn despite two layers of sunscreen. It was worth it. I'm displaying my results (above) large and proud this year. I drew our cat Tamir in our apple tree for Genevieve Schmidt and her awesome gardening blog and landscaping service. It took nearly six hours and measures 3′ x 3′. I'm going to have it printed on canvas and hang it in the living room.
We were surrounded by farmer's market booths selling fresh local produce, bands, street performers, and crowds of people coming to enjoy the event. I met several old friends I haven't seen in a decade, and I was in good company. There's nothing like sitting yourself down in the midst of famous local artists and designers to up the pressure to perform. They set the bar high.
Sitting to one side of me was Leah Vaughn, representing Holly Yashi Jewelry, who have recently opened their own store at their studio. A great place to shop for jewelry or other gifts. I think this image would make an awesome postcard. This pastel was twice the size of mine, and I have no idea how she managed to get it all done by herself. A side note on this for anyone planning on participating in the event; They kicked us out at 3:00, so if you think your concept may take more than seven hours, either rethink it, or get a helper.
Beside her was her husband Casey Vaughn, representing Plaza. This is his first year doing a three foot square, rather than the double size. I think the extra time per foot really allowed him to show off his skills. One of the top looks of the day in my opinion.
To my other side was Susan Devine, representing Barbara Rips with this picture of a dragon on the Trinidad lighthouse. You don't have to be a business to support the event. North Coast Children's Services takes charitable donations and we artists donate our time in the name of donors. Everyone wins. And the kids loved this one. Susan was fond of telling them that if they wanted to see the dragon, they had to get to the lighthouse really early in the morning.
This is a great pairing of the Wildlife Care Center with award winning artist Linda Parkinson. These two really are perfectly suited.
Duane Flatmo, larger than life as always, for a guy who is used to paintings that take up whole buildings, this must seem easy. I spoke with him briefly. It seems he is still touring with his giant fire breathing octopus contraption. Go check it out.
This one was the most vibrant and eye catching hing I saw all day, and beautifully done by these two artists. My only criticism is in the decision making process. If you are going to have one pumpkin spilling out of the square, don't chop off the one next to it at the edge, and if you are going to sign it, either work it in and make it look nice, or keep it outside the bounds of the picture. There is just no way to crop this to make it look right.
I took a break to stretch my legs and go see what Jerry Lee Wallace was up to. I've been a fan of his work since before I started doing the event myself. He has the most distinctive style, with his obelisk-like people and vibrant landscapes. This is a portrait of a guy who is "outstanding in his field". I love the reflections and the shadow going up the tall grass. The donor was Humboldt Family Services.
And lastly, a couple of honorable mentions. B&B always cracks me up with their poop-to-rainbows attitude. And I like this one by Ca Redwood Co. I don't get it, but I like it.
Each year, I improvise a few new techniques, with varying success. This year I brought a chunk of neoprene, with the hope that I could use it as a dry paintbrush. It was remarkably effective, and held up unexpectedly well. It allowed me to blend the pastel I had already applied, so I ended up using less, and having less dust. In total I used less than eight pieces of pastel.
Please feel free to post your thoughts or experiences with the event, and I hope to see you all there next year, same place, same time.
Self Stirring Pot
by Zog
This is a self stirring pot. Why this hasn't been put to market sometime in the past few thousands of years full of around a billion people cooking things, I don't understand. Every one of us should be embarrassed for not coming up with this ourselves. It was created by a dentist in Japan who no doubt got sick of his noodles sticking to the bottom of his pot. He calls it Kuru-Kuru Nabe, the round and round pot.
This might even have some interesting new cooking possibilities. I wonder if you cracked an egg in there if you might end up with a doughnut shaped egg? This kind of elegant use of thermodynamics has some intriguing possibilities in other fields as well.
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2012
by Zog
It's Kinetic time once again in Arcata California. It was an overcast morning in the end of May. Labor Day weekend. A cold breeze coming in off of the ocean didn't phase the spectators, who were out in great numbers to see a race that seemed a bit subdued compared to olden times. The things that impressed me this year were less in the spectacle of it all, and more in the smaller details.
These guys need a bigger dinosaur. It looks like an afterthought. Putting the driver in the back seat is nothing but awesome though.
The above entry, inspired by roadkill and full of vulture pilots, is the work of Duane Flatmo. I don't personally see his style shining through on this one, but it was my favorite among the larger entries.
Lost Coast Brewery sponsored this fire truck themed fire ant that shoots fire out its arse!
Predicting the weather in Arcata is unreliable enough that I'm not sure why we employ meteorologists, but the gamble paid off for this crew. A sunny day racing in a wookie outfit would be hellish, but the icy weather made them look more sane than those in shorts. A tribute to the sasquatch or bigfoot which are rumored to inhabit local forests.
The one and two seater contestants really made the race this year. I love this FlintStones inspired car. It seemed well engineered and convincing and they weren't having any trouble getting around. I'm not sure how the steering works.
This little crab was awesome. Both his arms and claws were fully functional and I have no doubt anything messing with him would have gotten a good pinching. His little eyestalks were on springs.
This one ought to be fun in the bay. These two chicks in a frying pan had a jet of fire above their heads.
It doesn't look lime much in photo, but this one impressed me more than any of the others. I'm not sure what the creature on the front is. It is deer-like, but had something dragon-like about it as well. It had a strikingly complex seris of controls operated by the lone driver via several levers.
Sometimes all it takes is someone going a small extra step in order to bring something from good to great. There were lots of people in mushroom suits racing around, but going with the full body suit with eyeholes makes this guy look like a viable super hero. The above gnome is best seen in motion, since he gets around by bouncing rather than pedaling. To see him and all the rest, check out Bob Doran's video below of the first two laps around the plaza at the start of the race. In the coming days the race will go through the dunes, across the bay, and all the way down to Ferndale.


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