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The home computer of the future…

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— orudge @ 21/09/2004 3:44 pm

That is the so-called “home computer of 2004” (thanks to Grumpy Gamer and John Battelle’s Searchblog for that one), from 1954, apparently. The steering wheel in particular looks like a nice addition… funny that they didn’t turn out to be all that popular in reality, eh?

Major downtime!

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— orudge @ 2:51 pm

Bleh, major downtime recently… hopefully sorted now, though. Anyway, it was International Talk Like A Pirate Day on Sunday, so I did indeed talk like a pirate, on the boat mainly (of course)… I think I kind of annoyed Bryony, Kirsty, Bethan et al though – they didn’t quite seem to be in the piratey spirit.

I also had my NPLQ lifeguard exam this past weekend, which was mostly fine, apart from a section where I had to bandage some injuries – that was a bit of a disaster, so I’ll be retested on that next week, but if that goes well, then I’m a fully qualified lifeguard! 🙂

I bought the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs yesterday and watched through the documentaries – very good stuff, and the quality of the actual films was very good too, all nice and shiney, and much better than the old VHS copies I have from 1997. (Hmm, they’re seven years old now… time flies, eh?) Not sure I agree with some of the changes made though – specifically, the replacement of Sebastian Shaw’s head with Hayden Christensen’s – I can see why it’s done, for continuity, but it just doesn’t look right, somehow!

Finally, I’ll be away on an outdoor activity “team building” trip from tomorrow morning to Friday afternoon, so unless I decide to try a blog via my phone, I’ll see you all on Friday night!