A Child's Garden of Stolen Thoughts
The pictures and links which distract me from living my life.
None of the images are credited to me unless named otherwise. If you have a legal claim on what I posted...let's talk, why not?
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Photo reblogged from Play American
Ms. Pac Man and Crazy Otto (Arcade; 1981).
Do you know the story of these two? In 1981, hackers from the Bedford, Massachusetts-based General Computer Corporation modified the software in an old Pac Man arcade cabinet to make a more interesting game, which they dubbed Crazy Otto. Sensing something great, the Midway Corporation of Chicago purchased the rights to Otto later that year, modifying it into the more marketable Ms. Pac Man, which proceded to become a smash hit in U.S. arcades. Of course, the Pac Man franchise itself was actually owned by the Tokyo-based Namco cooperation, and (I believe still within the course of the same year) Midway agreed to cede control of their unauthorized spin-off back to their Japanese overlords. To this day, Ms. Pac Man remains a relatively obscure, or at least forgettable, presence in the Japanese video game canon, as opposed to the generational icon status she enjoyes in the States.
The stories of adapting and hacking videogames at their birth are fascinating. Don’t even get me started on Tetris.
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I just learned that one of my favorite running songs is by current exhaustingly-ubiquitous artist ‘Gotye’.
I guess it’s also kind of a mom song. Luckily I run mom distances.
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Out of my price range, but definitely the best thing at the antique fair.
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A week ago I got a packet of personal papers for free from an old professor’s front yard in my neighborhood. I’d had trouble cracking into novels lately so the chance to pry into someone’s life seemed like the perfect way to boost my reading and also a good project to catalog.
Here is a picture, somewhat obscured. The reasons for that will be detailed below.
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Sorry to every Journalist and Reviewer I know but these Australian Teens and their love of the art, craft and enjoyment of mass produced cigarettes make your jobs obsolete.
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Photo reblogged from Rising Tensions
Amish Fiction, via hipinion
Oops, found my calling guys. I’ll be writing Amish Fiction for the next 25 years…see ya!
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We had a competition for finding the ‘best story song’ yesterday. Johnny and this wackadoo number won easily.
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Charlie Booker’s ‘Black Mirror’ is completely worth checking out.
British television’s ability to create and embrace bleak, troubling storytelling always gives them a leg up in science fiction.
