Another Word for Nerd

You end up with stuff like this running on modern hardware.

In a discussion about “The worst tourist attraction you’ve ever been to”, a couple of Oklahoma City places came up.

Everyone agreed that The Omniplex rocked (and still does).

However, a few of us remembered some sort of economics-related place somewhere in OKC. After much Googling, I found it - Enterprise Square USA was located on the campus of OCU in Edmond.

“One of the most darkly appealing aspects of Enterprise Square was that it was slowly falling apart. It was built in 1982 for $15 million, and little appears to had been done to upgrade it. Color schemes and display designs dated from the tail-end of the disco era; the internal power systems were less reliable; a cheerful skeleton crew kept the place running.”

Tom Tomorrow called it “a rundown homage to the glories of capitalism which, perversely, has almost nothing for sale in its gift shop”.

I don’t think I could have described it better myself. In the mid-to-late 80s it seemed cool when I was in junior high, but looking back now (and seeing pictures) it appears incredibly lame… but cool in an incredibly lame capitalistic way.

Enterprise Square USA finally closed down for good in 2002.

I’ve been playing around with Autotrace, a program for converting bitmapped graphics into vector graphics. It’s really good for cleaning up scanned logos, drawings, and things like that.

I tried it out on the Symbolics logo.

The original:

The result:

Not bad… Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that well.
I also tried the IBM logo:

The original:

The result:

Ouch! It’s a nice “watercolor” effect though.

I finally got the MIT CADR Lisp Machine emulator running properly (and usably) on OSX/Intel. Pictures here.

The OSIM iGallop (watch the video)

Now available at Brookstone for only SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS!

It’s like someone was trying to redesign the Sybian, failed, and decided to make an exercise machine out of it…

However, the OSIM iDesire full-body massage chair looks like a great way to relax after a hard day at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahna_Mahna

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_%28song%29

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs

The KittenTenna!

I’m going to learn how to pick locks.

I bought everything I needed off of Amazon:

I’ve also got a copy of the MIT Guide to Lockpicking and a few other documents.

Hopefully by this weekend I can be good enough to open the deadbolt.

Unfortunately, the TSA will not touch your monkey.

Because some women are just batshit crazy and think way too highly of themselves nowdays.