As I hit publish on my last silly post, I realised I could use the same template for a number of things. Namely:
My wife is _______. She _____________ _______. When I _______ and it dawned on me ________, I wanted to marry her all over again.
Thus:
My wife is amazing. She carried and gave birth to my daughter Amelynne. When I first saw my little girl and it dawned on me that I now have my own clone, I wanted to marry her all over again.
See how that works?
Such a missed opportunity. Instead they announced some sort of e-reader thing.
A new theme for a new year — only one week early.
I loved my last theme (actually, my last two themes — but the C64 one was a throwaway), but every time I make a new theme I learn something, and I wanted to incorporate some of my new skills into a new theme.
Screenshot of my commodore 64 themeI loved my old Commodore 64. It had fantastically playable games, neat 16 colour graphics, and that awesome SID chip for the charmingly wonky C=64 sound. You could program on it, play on it, wait for things to load on it…
It had cartridges, it had a tape drive, it had a clunky disk drive that worked marginally faster than the tape drive. Really, it was shit compared to what we have today, but man-oh-man it still outstrips every one of the computers any true geek has ever owned since.
On Monday, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, will celebrate the C64’s 25th anniversary. CNN article on Commodore 64 anniversary
In August 2007, the Commodore 64 made it to 25 years old. And in honour of the Computer History Museum’s celebrations, I have created a Commodore 64 Wordpress theme to add to my website. If you’ve come to this page wondering why my site is all big and blue and chunky — it’s to pay respect to a truly wonderful computer.
If you’ve come here looking to get the theme yourself — let me know and I’ll see if I can make it available to download. It’s still a work-in-progress, so expect to see some changes before things finally settle and I haven’t tested it on any versions of IE. It’s a little harder to navigate, so I’ve made a menu link up there in the top right corner, so you don’t get completely lost.
I’ve made the comment areas blue too, so you can relive the joys of typing LOAD “*” ‚8,1 yourself, so go on and leave me a comment. And everyone, please be patient for the next two weeks and join me in remembering one of the best computers I’ve ever owned.
LOAD “*” ‚8,1
Thanks for your interest in my theme, “joshnunn 0.1″. joshnunn is a simple two column theme with static header, footer and sidebar. My biggest achievement with it was making it entirely with ‘em’s for maximum resizable-ness…
I’ve not put any licence on it because I’ve not made it transportable to other Wordpress setups — it requires a number of plugins to work properly, and I’ve made no effort to make it customisable with other logos/icons etc. One day I may make it available, but frankly — do you want it? Really?
Feel free to take it/modify it/make it your own, but please mention me (and this site) somewhere.
This was the first stop motion video I created using iStopMotion, an excellent little mac program for creating frame-by-frame movies. I added the sound in Final Cut Express.
