Wednesday stuff

[yendi]

Let's start with the really important item:

Happy Anniversary to morenasangre and farren, two of the most wonderful people in the entire world!

Quiz time for the old-school gamers: http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/arcade/name/name_that_game.swf

I got a 15/18, and would probably have done better if I'd been thinking more of the 2600 version of one of the games, instead of the arcade one.

Anyone who wants Peter David's upcoming 6-issue run on The Hulk to continue should look at this site.

And anyone who wants to buy the screenplay for The War For the Oaks (and other nifty screenplays by Shetterly, Bull, Mike Baron, and others) should go here.

And you know you want one of these. At least, I sure do.

Finally, Amazon's new multi-purpose search engine, A9 is available. It's nifty so far -- Google combines with Alexa and the Amazon database. A nice, clean interface, image searches on the same page as a web search, and some interesting ideas with bookmarks and remembering previous visits. Still not replacing Google, but it's something I'll keep an eye on.

Comments

[digitaldevil.livejournal.com]

Meh??? I can see all the HTML coding. I think LJ is having another hiccup episode because the code looks correct to me.

[yendi]

Yeah, and when I removed the entire line with the tag that LJ cited, it simply went to the next tag (the Walmart one) and gave me the same error.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Well, poo. *frown*

[yendi]

Fixed it -- LJ just pointed to the wrong error.

[yendi]

Found it! It was a missing quotation in the Peter David link. Fucking LJ.

[brujah.livejournal.com]

*shame*

I got 14/18. And I just donated a 2600 and fifty games to Goodwill. Heh.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Huh. 13/18 for me. It's funny, because I always played without sound for defender, so I definitely missed that one... oh, and the sound with thr frequent beeping? It just didn't sound right for what the correct answer was. I thought they put the answer there because it was *close*- but I don't ever remember the beeping being that frequent.

Thanks for the link, though!

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I agree! I got the same one wrong and it didn't sound right at *all*

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Whew. Glad I'm not the only one. I spent many hours with that steady beep warning me that I better grab a heart soon or I was going to be dodongo fodder...

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Remember, Dodongo Dislikes Smoke!

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember.

I also remember that stupid old man who made me pay through the nose for breaking the door of his cave. Evidently that foreshadowed the incident years later when I would accidentally break the garage door of my local mechanic and pay through the nose to get him a new one.

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Everything I Know I Learned From Video Games.

*giggle*

[yendi]

1. Never fire more than one bullet at a time -- firing again can cause the first bullet to vanish.

2. Everything has a pattern.

3. When aliens attack our solar system, they do so to the music of J.S.Bach.

4. Power Pills make you feel invincible for a while, but once that feeling wears off, Inky and Blinky attack.

5. Don't shoot the food.

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I'm staying home today both in an attempt to celebrate my anniversary and in an attempt to retain my sanity. The wedding was hell, but married life is fun!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

that A9 thing is kinda interesting...

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

More HULK SMASH!

War for the Oak, still one of the best modern fantasy novels. C'mon Emma get us some more stuff to read.