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(COOLLIST) Life Imitates the Movies
I just fired up my USENET newsreader to check on a few groups, and the
first thing I notice is the list of new newsgroups. At the top of the
list was
alt.job.3.14
For those of you who have seen the blockbuster movie _Mission
Impossible_, that will both make perfect sense and disturb you to no
end.
In other news, I've been up to a few projects lately. On the Basia
mailing list, I've volunteered to coordinate a fan video project.
People from around the country are going to be sending me video tape
of Basia's performances off television, I'll edit them all together
with some nice titles, then I'll duplicate a few masters which will
get distributed in a shallow tape tree. This is the first time I've
heard of a video tape tree, although I've been in a few audio trees.
If you don't know who Basia is, see my web site, at
<URL:http://www.yak.net/basia/>.
Austin, as well as most of Texas, is experiencing a drought right now.
Not enough rain and too much sun. It's been hovering around 100F
during the day. This makes it nice weather for swimming pool
lounging. Maybe I'll even get some work done.
One distraction to work has been the Nintendo set I picked up last
weekend at a yard sale. The control pads didn't work, but I got a
cool joystick on clearance at Toys'R'Expensive. I had forgotten how
much fun Zelda was (I played it at a neighbor's house in middle
school). The NES isn't quite classic, not in the same sense at the
Atari 2600, but it is a solid system with some great games.
The NES is leading to an expansion of my EE skills. I opened one of
the bad control pads and saw that it used a Motorola chip to serially
encode the signal. That led me into a online data book search which
led to me coming up with the idea of decoding the signal and
converting it back to parallel signals suitable for interfacing with
am Atari 7800. I should be making this circuit sometime in the next
few weeks, and then I'll be able to stick a GEE (Geek of Electrical
Engineering) on my Geek Code. :)
Well, I gotta go. Things to do, that kind of stuff.
--
Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) <URL:http://www.yak.net/combee/>
that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing,
World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin
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