Monday, February 15, 2010

Iain's second PC (1996-1999)


First one was a IBM 486

32 MB of RAM
2-4 MB VRAM
Pentium at 100 MHz
20 GB HDD
Windows 95
It was a hand-me down and no Internet. My parents graduated to a Pentium II with twice the RAM.

The games

A Circle of Blood (7th game)
Diablo (last game)
Doom 2 (2nd to last)
Hoyle Cards (3rd game)
Kings Quest IV (first game)
Kings Quest VII (4th game)
Lode Runner Returns (packaged)
Monkey's Island 2 Luchuck's Revenge (6th game)
Secret of Monkey's Island (5th game)
Simcity 2000 (2nd game)
Simcity Classic (packaged)

I played Nintendo games on it with an emulator, mainly the Super Mario Bros. trilogy and Metroid.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Privatization of electricity is better combined with geothermal

Should the state take over public utilities? no. For decades, electricity prices have only gone one direction - up. Now, in those states that implemented true deregulation, prices have actually fallen - in Pennsylvania by up to 30 percent - due to competition. Exempt from the provisions of our flawed restructuring, they were not forced to sell their power plants or to give up long-term contracts, but they were able to make huge profits selling power to the rest of the state.


Everybody should have a geothermal heatpump and furnace inside their business and home. Heat pumps paid for themselves in 8 years. Geothermal is cheaper than gas! Gas is only needed if I live in Canadian/Alaskan climate when a miniature electric furnace is my failsafe.

#1 and #6 give it away

A communist rating animated films. He tries to throw you off with Bugs Bunny It didn't work on me!

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Malazon Book of the Fallen

I didn't know what books to get other than Lord of the Rings so I went down to the top 5 and picked one at random. It was A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Amazon sells each book between $3 and $6.50 and there is nine cheap softcover books. I bought all of them at one time. Now I'm supposed to be more awesome than I was a day ago.

- Gardens of the Moon
- Deadhouse Gates
- The Bonehunters
- Reaper's Gale
- Midnight Tides
- Toll the Hounds
- House of Chains
- Dust of Dreams
- Memories of Ice

www.malazanempire.com/

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Is this kind of humorious?


Homer: "You guys are commies? Then why am I seeing free markets?"

capitalist roaders...