A First-time Blog

Toby, the owner of LabJack, was on the Tom Martino Radio show. The audio has been cut down to just Toby. This is very exciting.
Toby on The Tom Martino show (April 7, 2009 2pm)

I got a Sony BDP-S350 for graduation, and I must say Blu-ray movies on a high-def TV are quite lovely. I got Firefly and Pushing Dasies along with it. They are also quite lovely. The problem comes when I bought some movies off Amazon. Well, they all worked except one: Starship Troopers. I know may people may not believe it to be worth their trouble, but I believe the movie is underrated and gets better every time I watch it.

December 12th = Graduation Day
In order to help answer questions about what I would want for graduation, I have created an Amazon Wish List. I was also very bored. So, If you think you want to get me something, why not check it out?

Thanks to Hak5’s bulletin board (telnet bbs.hak5.org), I have been reintroduced to the wild world of MUDs. At the same time, a friend of mine spends lots of time bored with only a terminal to keep him company. Together we hatched a plan, to host a MUD on my account here, on Dreamhost. However, I was thwarted thanks to Dreamhost’s Policy Bot. I believe the Policy Bot is something like an ED-209 and something hate hates fun.

Recently, I’ve been getting into Revision3 shows. It started when a friend showed me an episode of Tekzilla. I hadn’t realized how much I had missed Patrick Norton. He seems a little haggard now. But I will still remember the younger, happier version, back in the old TechTV days.
After I had seen a couple episodes of Tekzilla, I moved onto Scam School. Scam School features Brian Brushwood, a man with impossible hair and awesome talent.

I did my civic duty and gave back to one of the blogs I like a lot.
For those who don’t know of The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks, it is simply a collection of the misuse of quotation marks. It is also hilarious. Click the link and check it out.
Now that you’re familiar with the premise, allow me to tell you a little story.
I’ve been going to Brunswick Zone bowling alleys for a while now.

So, I thought it would be a really good time if I were to make a chart which plotted my love of FireNES versus time. On top of that, I thought it would be a good time to use the Google Visualization API. My only stipulation was that I wanted to use strings for the labels on both the X and the Y Axes. What follows is the Cliff’s Notes version of what happened:

I will not be first, and won’t be the last, to say how awesome FireNES is. FireNES allows you to play almost any NES game you can think of through Firefox. This rocks harder than anything that has rocked before.
The site: http://www.firenes.com.ar/
Isn’t Bionic Commando one of the best games ever?
The Pros:
If you can think of a game, FireNES has it. Works on just about any computer The Cons: