I sat at lunch today trying to explain how amazing the 1976 Bicentennial was to younger employees, but it’s impossible to convey in 2026. Then my friend Dan sent this which explains everything : youtu.be/qDrpUiTcpv4

Latest arrival. Side A is fantastic. Bass player is Danielle Faye who was in an early version of the Runaways for a hot minute

Found this piece of vintage computing ephemera at the TRW Electronic Swap Meet this morning. It’s about 100 pages of hand crafted , ink jet printed computer history from the mid 1990s.it feens like folk art to me 30 years down the line.

Galaga personal best busted by 10k points, and I didn’t even start well.

Power Pop? Or Power Pop! youtu.be/skEa8cp9H3M?...

Father’s Day is the most important day of the week…so far

A month ago Gemini found the battery I needed for my car keys. Yesterday I did the same thing for a different keys and gemini hallucinated the necessary battery to be the one from my last set of keys. Minor mistake for me now, but the mix of long term AI memory and AI search could do much worse

Short term: business vibe coding apps with good initial results because they are building “happy path” solutions and don’t understand the actual complexity of the ask. Long term: there is none. Fired IT staff won’t be able to save them and the vibe coding echo chamber will ultimately fall apart

Solo is a darned good little Star Wars movie

I had no idea Bad Religion released a prog-rock, Devo meets Husker Du album in 1983 named Into The Unknown and now I can’t stop listening to it.

Pick ups from the new Long Beach location of Retro Games Plus

My sister kept a detailed calendar in 1977 to keep tracks of all the bands she saw. This was June 21st at the Whisky in Hollywood . She * starred the bands she liked, and wrote “(fart)” next to the ones she didn’t. God I miss my sister.

ONE MONTH until Abrams Books’ The Art of Star Wars: Andor hits store shelves on June 30! Received my author copies earlier this week. And the final cover reveals not only Tony Gilroy’s foreword, but Emmy-winning Andor screenwriter Dan Gilroy’s afterword! As expected, both are brilliant.

I found this buried deep in my sisters personal affects: the flyer she drew for the ever live show by LA punk/power pop band The Last in January 1978

Four words: “Crocodile Tears” - The Mumps

We have a new "alt" channel for "rougher", off the cuff content. I have series about games that were never finished named "Dead End Game Development" youtu.be/e3c0D5kh8ug

“Peer Pressure” by the Screamers youtu.be/hb6mF4-Wf3g?...

Mandalorian and Grogu was a solid little movie. Like a season condensed without the fluff episodes

Colbert's "This Is Monroe" show with Jack White as musical director, may be the single greatest 59.5 minutes of late night TV ever created.

Mixtape is the best walking simulator I’ve played since Fire Watch

Am I right that we still call these things “podcasts” named after a delivery device that has not been relevant in almost 20 years?

Four words. The Quick “Mondo Deco”

I've seen better “UAP" videos on Skinwalker Ranch. The only thing missing are all the rockets.

I just realized I’ve never tried to get into Small Faces. Anyone have any tips as to where to start?

This was going to be a normal review of Atari Arcade 1&2 for Evercade, but then I noticed something odd: Atari replaced the “Stern” name on the games they acquired, and for some reason it just didn’t sit well with me. youtu.be/TTIY1gIVeV4?...

I’m thinking the the “High school Book” version of “Oh Mary!” Will be just like TV edit of Cheech And Chong’s “Next Movie” where everyone is suddenly trying to find the “lost diamonds”

If you told me Marshals on CBS was 100% AI generated I would not bat an eyelash

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/n... This is real. Just saw it happen on the Subway yesterday . Kid got scared away by the conductor but his key worked!

I just read that the Pentagon threatened the Vatican. WTF?

Watergate level corruption on a daily basis

A.I. has ruined the art of the Youtube essay.

www.usatoday.com/story/entert... He bought the airtime and the comedy will be non-political and family friendly . At 11:30? This is just weird.

Having and fully accepting LGBT+ people in your life is a wonderful thing where you get to interact on a daily basis with beautiful people who are their true selves. As a bonus, you also get to know who your actual friends and family are by who doesn't abandon you because of it.

youtu.be/4vpORjSS0q8 New Challenge for March: Remake / Demake one of our old games on an Atari platform.

I don’t think it’s said enough that Don Knotts was f*cking comedic genius.

To all tech sales and tech sales engineers: if you are presenting to an actual tech team, we can 100% tell if you just vibe coded a solution in a day to present to us. We may not say it out loud, but our private meeting Teams chat tells a different story.

There is a lot that annoys me about the setting and story of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, but I could ignore all of it if the inventory screen fonts weren’t so small they are impossible to read from my comfortable couch.

Is it okay to admit that I kinda dug 3DTV and wish it was still an option?

I quit Twitter, quit Threads , blocked everyone on FB and hardly read BlueSky. Yet now I find myself doomscrolling YouTube shorts. This is all a f*cking disease

So we started new thing this month where we challenge each other to "retro" computing and retro game creations. This month it was music tracking next month it's score chaser arcade game programming. youtu.be/Bzf82ACm6s8

📢 For our PFLAG fam and LEGO fans in the Los Angeles area! This Saturday, March 21st, GayFOLs (a Global community for LGBTQIA+ fans of LEGO) is hosting their 10th Anniversary party, and PFLAG Los Angeles is a beneficiary! Purchase tickets at: https://pflagnation.al/4rCYVy5

“Token budget” is so fucking dystopian I don’t know what else to say.

Present Tense is peak Shoes

Listening to Springsteen “Nebraska -Electric Nebraska”. My friend Brandon (RIP) grew to love Springsteen after he heard The Ghost of Tom Joad. Nebraska was one of his favorites. I’m pretty sure he would have loved these lost versions.

One thing I that came to mind at SXSW is that AI generated content might be like 90s “multimedia” in that the money people loved the idea, but consumers hated it.

First thing I see at SXSW is this retro tech themed speakeasy that requires a password to enter. I think Ive found my people

First episode of "Fill In The Blanks", a new series that is part of the Into The Vertical Blank podcast. In this series we try to do and create things we've never done before. In this first episode we try to tackle chiptune music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzf8...

Finished Avowed. You can tell it and Outer Worlds 2 were made by the same studio. They both have a similar way of gating progress, similar way of handling action in an RPG and a similar form of branching stories and outcomes. They also both have a location named Paradis(e) and similar endings.