Category Archives: Just Rambling

Been a couple months since my last post – not that I normally post here daily or anything. “Why the hiatus,” do you ask? The answer is that my wife and I just had a baby! Our daughter came into … Continue reading →

I’d seen them at ThinkGeek for quite a while, but I never put in an order. PixelBlocks, they are. For whatever reason, I finally got around to grabbing a 2000-block pack (12 colors) last week. By design, they’re great for … Continue reading →

For a most bizarre but quite kickass retro computing music video experience, check out Wintergreen’s “When I Wake Up” music video, directed by Keith Schofield. The video, if not the song itself, tells the sad tale of the ill-fated video … Continue reading →

Wow. I just did a Goole Images search on the term “blakespot,” which is the name of my homepage as well as my nick on many sites on the ‘net. What I saw returned by the most savvy of search … Continue reading →

Not long ago I ran across a nice, brief synopsis of the making of the first consumer computer with a graphical user interface, entitled “A History of Apple’s Lisa, 1979-1986”. It’s posted over at Low End Mac’s Orchard, a site … Continue reading →

That’s what Wil Wheaton calls it. I think because I didn’t ever warm up to the role of Wesley in ST:TNG, I was never a huge Wil Wheaton fan. I mean, Stand By Me is a great film, and he … Continue reading →

I just finished reading the excellent Dealers of Lightning : Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael Hiltzik. It’s a book that gives the inside scoop on the goings-on at the XEROX Palo Alto Research Center … Continue reading →

I’ve expressed before that the inspiration for the name Byte Cellar is somewhat derived from the fact that, in my current home, the computer area containing all of my machines is in a (newly finished) basement room. I’ve got much … Continue reading →

I found the greatest geek toy the other day. Every so often I scan ThinkGeek to see what’s new and clever—this time I found something too good to pass up. Colorful, retro, adhesive Space Invaders characters that can be placed … Continue reading →