The new design is here! About a week ago I revealed on Tumblr that I was working on a new logo for the blog. And now I’ve mustered the energy to do the bare minimum to my CSS to implement what can be called a “redesign.” Enjoy!
It’s been nearly a month since my last blog post. What happened?
Well, this happened:
That would be the reception area at the front of the new Room 34 Creative Services studio. The business has moved out of my house and into a real storefront space. It’s been a lot of work (plus, I’ve had a lot of work to do anyway), so the blog has suffered. Never fear, I’m still here!
More to come…
Enjoy Gioachino Rossini’s 55th birthday — he would have been 220 today — with a little Bugs Bunny.
The Undisciplined Room, episode 8: As of Yesterday, Dick Cavett Was Still Alive
It’s yet another new episode of no one’s favorite podcast! This time it even features chapter markers (if you listen to the Apple-friendly AAC version, at least). I also said “shit” and forgot to bleep it. Fun.
It’s been easy to forget it’s winter this year. Last winter we had two huge storms bury the area under a couple of feet of snow before Christmas, and we didn’t see grass again until sometime in March. As far as I know, this winter we haven’t even had a single snow emergency, and the few times we have gotten an inch or two of snow, it’s melted within a week.
What’s a snow emergency, you say? I’ll let Wikipedia explain. Suffice to say Minneapolis is the only city specifically mentioned in the article.
Rusty Quarters Retro Arcade & Museum
I want to go to there. Rusty Quarters is in the Lyn-Lake area of Minneapolis, next to Bryant Lake Bowl.
I’ve been meaning to find time to head over to that part of town and check this place out for a while, but I just discovered a number of photos of the inside posted on Instagram. It turns out they have their whole game list posted on their website, but just from looking at the pictures I was able to identify the following games:
Rampage, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Q-Bert, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Track and Field, BurgerTime, Defender and Crystal Castles.
Yes… that’s pretty much perfect.
The Undisciplined Room, episode 7: Loose with my Use
Never mind the curiously suggestive title. What should really concern you most about the newest episode of my podcast with SLP is this image:
The image may be even more disturbing if you know its source. The episode is now posted for your enjoyment!
The Undisciplined Room, Episode 6: Cranked Up
The latest episode of my podcast with SLP just went live. Check it out!
Daring Fireball links to this vintage video from Macworld 1997, where then-Apple CEO Gil Amelio rambles on before introducing, to a rousing standing ovation, the returning Steve Jobs. Amelio’s facial expression while the ovation lingers is priceless. Cue sad trombone:
I have a topic for an impending blog post that is likely to be my most arcane, geeky, unreadable post ever. Even if you know what I’m talking about. It will be the blog post equivalent of Metal Machine Music. Even I won’t be able to read it after it is written.
The topic: migrating the primary keys in a CakePHP site’s MySQL database from GUIDs to integers. I can’t wait.