October 2009
4 posts
VT220 Emulation
Thanks to the magic of the Interwebs, I stumbled across <a href=”http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/”>this guy who made a TrueType Font file of the glyphs that a VT220 would draw.
I then fiddled with colors for a bit until I could approximate that amber glow I remember so well from my childhood.
And I ended up with:
It’s great. The only downside is that the font file...
As God As My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon wonders what kids get out of magic acks. Her conclusion is that a child simply wants to puzzle out how the magician accomplishes his feats as opposed to sitting back and simply being amazed like an adult might.
It’s an interesting idea (if somewhat under-explored in all of twelve hundred words). Indeed, her notion that a child is only interested in “How do...
Ships
I’m a sci-fi fan.
More than that, I’m a space opera fan. I have a thing for space ships, whether they’re Federation starships or runabouts, Imperial Star Destroyers, little snub fighters, generational ships, or even giant cylinders sent out by God himself (yeah, I didn’t like the ending of the Rama series either).
I’ll admit: when the camera lovingly pans over the...
An Open Letter to the Planet
Dear Earth.
Hi. It’s me. James. Yes, yes. The stupid looking one.
Anyway. I know we haven’t really treated you very well since the Industrial Revolution (personally, I blame the British) and you have every right to be pissed at us. But lately, we’ve been trying. Remember the Crying Indian? That was great. And we gave a Nobel Prize to Al Gore. And have you noticed all the...