Obama was a long shot a year ago, when I received this photo, but the woman in it convinced me he would be the next President. Way to go, Co…
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President Obama
Our long national nightmare is over at last, assuming Bush lays low until January 20.
Peanuts On Disc and Online
The brothers Schulz can be heard talking about new Peanuts media — Monte on a DVD, and Craig on NPR.
The new “Peanuts Motion Comics” sound like fun. Unfortunately, I don’t have iTunes.
Charles Schulz was from Minnesota, of course, so it’s no surprise that a TV station there highlighted the animated Peanuts comics. (Note that the clips were taken from TV specials.)
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Historic Election
History in the making! America will have either a Hawaiian President or an Alaskan Vice President. Like Colbert, in politics I see neither race nor gender. 😉
Chex Quest 3
Chex Quest 3 is available for download! In 1996 Eric was a wee lad of four years. Back then I was doing a lot of the grocery shopping (or, in deference to SamJay, food shopping), and one day I saw that Chex cereals had a promotion with a computer game on CD-ROM. It was called Chex Quest. The discs were manufactured by AOL in return for Chex including the then-ubiquitous offer to join AOL. Although I had no interest in America Online, I couldn’t pass up the free game.
My computer was an 83 MHz Pentium with 8 MB of memory and a 300 MB disk, that I’d upgraded from a 40 MHz 386 with 4 MB and a 170 MB disk. The upgrade made it possible to run Windows 95 no slower than I’d been running Windows 3.1. Internet access was a 33.6 Kbps modem dialing into a local service provider, and at that speed it took about an hour to download Chex Quest 2.
After installing Chex Quest, I recognized it immediately as being a DOS program based on the DOOM game engine. I watched the introductory video, with the background story for the game. I’ll let Eric explain the premise…
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Mark it down! Market up!
Here’s something else that was sitting in the pile of draft entries I haven’t finished. It’s a table showing the standing of my house’s value in percentages, as estimated by Zillow a couple of weeks ago. The good news is, its value is still up by 78% from when we bought it.
| Past: | This home |
Town | County | MA | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 days | -3.5% | -1.6% | -1.0% | -0.6% | -0.4% |
| 1 year | -8.7% | -3.4% | -4.7% | -5.6% | -8.3% |
| 5 years | -2.7% | 8.8% | 4.8% | 6.8% | 24.2% |
| 10 years | 71.9% | 93.2% | 91.5% | 105.8% | 89.9% |
| Since last sale 07/31/1998 | 78.6% | 96.3% | 96.6% | 110.5% | 93.1% |