Category: Fun stuff

Random fun things

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Castle Wolfenstein!

Not very long ago, the Internet Archive introduced the Internet Arcade, a huge collection of games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I spent some time browsing around and found all sorts of classic games that I grew up with playing in the arcade and at home.

The other day, a random web page I was browsing made a reference to Wolfenstein 3D, which made me think of Castle Wolfenstein, a game I spent many hours playing on the Apple ][+ and //e.

I wandered over to the Internet Arcade to see if it was there, and sure enough, there it is: Castle Wolfenstein in all its low res glory, free to play in a DOSBox emulator right there in the browser. The manual for the Apple ][/][+ version is even available on the Internet Archive so you don’t have to press random keys trying to remember the controls.

Awesome.

There’s even Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (and manual) as well, another game I spent many hours playing.

The Arcade is a place to hang out again 🙂

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Southeast Linxufest 2015 schedule is out!

The draft schedule and other SELF events was just released.

I’m not going to be able to make it this year, but it definitely looks like it will be another good time.

Ubucon, BSidesCLT, Chef training, and Zero to DBA are in the lineup along with a bunch of other interesting looking talks.

Some of the ones in the schedule that caught my eye:

  • Git: Just say “No!” – D. Richard Hipp
  • MariaDB 10.1 101 – Daniel Bartholomew
  • Keynote: Team Near Space: Computing at 80 000 ft – Francois Dion
  • Keynote: Net Neutrality: From One Non-Evil ISP’s Perspective – Zach Underwood
  • Amateur Radio at the Boston Marathon – David Cantrell

Once again, there will be an amateur radio licensing test being administered on Saturday. The Craft Beer Bottle Share is back again this year (last year proved to be pretty popular).

Friday night is something new, Geeks with Guns, tentatively scheduled to take place after the talks at a nearby indoor shooting range. That ought to be interesting and fun.

I hear hotel rooms in the SELF block are going pretty quick and the SELF room rate will be expiring soon so if you’re planning on going, better make your reservation pretty soon.

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BarcampCHS 2014

Another BarampCHS is in the bag. I haven’t seen any numbers yet, but attendance seemed lower this year, and there weren’t quite as many sessions. The ones that were presented were pretty good though.

Once again, I was wearing my Star Trek bathrobe 🙂

I pitched my amateur radio session again, and it got put on the schedule in the first time slot. Had a pretty decent turnout of people who didn’t have their licenses yet and were actually interested in getting one. I recycled my amateur radio talk from a couple of Barcamps ago and answered a bunch of questions. Tom/AJ4UQ stopped in towards the end and helped out a bit with the questions too. Then throughout the day, I had a few people stopping me to ask about how and where they could get licensed.

Joe/@joel8x got a picture of me giving my presentation

Joe did another great job wrangling Barcampers for the group photo just before lunch.

Having my talk in the first session of the morning meant I could spend the rest of the day attending sessions, and I was able to make it to some pretty good ones. Clay McCauley gave a nice talk on basic automotive maintenance. There was a short informative talk on the Shellshock vulnerability, and the last one I went to was a packed room talk on genetic programming by Ted Tanner.

Once again, another good BarcampCHS year where I learned a few new things.