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Fun Foods in my area presented as a 3-course Meal (We eat healthy here in Colorado!) Appetizer: Main Entree: Dessert:

I haven't played it yet, but here's an Overview: The plot is loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The year is 1872 with a Steampunk twist and Monsieur Phileas Fogg has placed a wager at the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days or less. The game follows the course of this adventure, as narrated by Phileas Fogg's manservant Passepartout, whose actions and decisions are controlled by the player. After leaving London on an underwater train to Paris, the player can choose their own route around the world, traveling from city by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train, hovercraft, and more, racing other players and a clock that never stops. There's even an entire city that walks on four gigantic legs. Each city and journey contains unique narrative content. The developers estimate that on one complete circumnavigation of the globe players will see approximately 3% of the game's 500,000 words (that's equal to several hefty novels) of textual content. Every city and journey is narrated via an interactive story where you control every action. In their role as valet, players must manage finances, their master's health, and time as well as buying and selling items in different markets around the globe. The choices made by the player in story sections can also have a large impact on how the journey proceeds. Will your choices speed you up - or lead you into disaster? Will you earn Fogg's trust and respect? Will you uncover the secrets and short-cuts that can shave days off your time? Murder, romance, rebellion and intrigue await!

They spy on us? I thought they just hacked into our highly secure, giant systems and took what they wanted. Doh! I think scientists use them more, but, of course, scientists do design very large bombs, death-rays, and other fun stuff that's useful for conquering other countries, on behalf of their respective, peaceful governments.

Google Play (You'll need a Google account to sign into, though). After you get to the page, scroll down a ways to "Free Music", and click on the 'More' button to the right. BTW, this weeks' free album is Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Amazon (Gotta 'sign-in' on this one, too, but over 46,000 'results'). Free Music Archive (Over 86,000 tracks). Noisetrade (You'll need to create a free account, and agree to a few periodic e-mails). Freegal (You'll need a Library Card number for this one (really), but it'll give you access to over 9 million songs from over 28,000 labels, including the Sony Music catalog of your country).

Good. I don't need Parental Controls, as my kids are already out-of-control. JK (sorta) P.S. Well, they're adults, though.

Ya probably wouldn't see much lag in any of your games with this computer! China has had the fastest Supercomputer in the world since June of 2013. This might be why: CPU Cores: 3,120,000 (I've got 8, here at home ) Memory: 1,024,000 GB! (Hmmm..., the Milky Way-2 edges me out again ) At peak, with cooling, the system consumes 24MW! The Consumer Energy Center says one megawatt is enough to power 1,000 homes (other sources say only a few hundred). Their electric bill must be staggering. When I worked at a large computer manufacturing facility (Digital Equipment Corporation) back in the day, they 'posted' their electric bill for the employees to see, to illustrate the value of turning off equipment when you went home, etc.). They paid about $350,000/month for that one facility. Our fastest Supercomputer is the Titan, built by Cray and ran by the DoE (Department of Energy). Interestingly, I woulda thought the DoD would have the fastest one. However, I do recall reading about a Supercomputer the U.S. had at an 'undisclosed U.S. government site'. Sounds a bit military.

Twitch PS4 App P.S. The 2015 League of Legends World Championship started in Paris today. As of this writing, the championship has had over 3/4 billion views!

80 Days (Availability: the day before yesterday)

That'd be cool. My analog clock reading skills have been slipping the past few years. You'd never have time, but if you ever hire some 'Programming Interns', a LaunchBox for Kids might be fun for the folks with younger Gamers in the family.

Such as: You can make your screenshots not suck! Just select “Settings” from the “Steam” drop-down menu in the top left corner, hit the “In-Game” tab, and choose “Save an uncompressed copy” under Screenshots. Goodbye, blurry screenshots. Steam Secrets P.S. Techies, be sure to check-out this Link: Here are a bunch of commands

Hauppauge Digital TV Tuner for Xbox One DVR capabilities are available, but even without DVR, the $60 Xbox TV tuner is a fine product, adding features you don’t get by simply plugging an antenna into the television. For instance, users get a full channel guide, time-shifting for up to 30 minutes of live television, and optional Kinect voice commands. The tuner can also stream live TV to the SmartGlass app for iOS, Android, and Windows devices, and to the Xbox app for Windows 10.

This startup is introducing a new product called ShowDrive, for recording broadcast channels such as ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. While other broadcast DVRs save locally on a hard drive, ShowDrive stores everything in the Cloud, so users can stream their shows on TVs, phones, and tablets. Simple.TV and ShowDrive Simple.TV plans to launch a beta in the United Kingdom in the next several weeks, partnering with an unnamed consumer electronics vendor on a standalone set-top box. This device will plug directly into the television, and will apparently offer some online video apps in addition to the basic broadcast DVR functionality. DVR service will cost 1 pound (about $1.52) per month for 100 hours of Cloud storage, and 5 pounds for 1000 hours. Plans for a U.S. launch are unclear. Simple.TV wants to partner with television makers to put the broadcast DVR functionality directly into smart TVs. It’s unclear if Simple.TV will also offer a standalone box in the United States.

Yah, under those circumstances a lawyer probably woulda been a waste of money. $800-$900/week tax free isn't bad money, really. NOX, too? Sounds as if you were quite the 'party animal' back in the day, Derek.

Samsung Gear VR

I believe, that eventually, you won't be able to tell it's not a real person, whether it be a hologram or a robot. They're gonna look real - it's just a matter of time.

When my younger daughter was first getting in to PC Gaming, it was a lot of DOS and eventually Windows 3.1. I pretty much bought her educational-type games only (titles such as Reader Rabbit, Operation Neptune, Where in the Hell is Carmen San Diego?, etc.). Anyway, I found this cool program (at least I though so) called KidDesk. Rather than go into a lengthy and possibly disjointed description of it, I found this video. The video is for a Mac, but it was essentially the same thing for Windows. Ya probably only need to watch the first minute to see my reference to LaunchBox. I loved that program (but I love LaunchBox more, of course ).

Well, I suppose they're not exactly games, but sorta. PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based, science and mathematics simulations. PhET was originally for Physics Education Technology, but now encompasses other sciences and mathematics. The simulations range from Elementary School through University level. The sims are either HTML5, Flash, or Java. Anyway, click here to see the full list, but here's some of them:

Now that I see it in scale with something I know, it's much larger than I realized. Wanna build one? Click here.

Came across this photo the other day. The price was staggering ($20K for the 64KB model), but it was pretty new 'consumer/scientist' technology. This was before even I was using computers. (I came back from my military tour in Berlin, Germany that year). But one of my favorite 'early computer technology' photos, is this (description below photo): This is a photo of the first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) being removed from a cargo plan via forklift. It was about the size of an upright piano. It weighed over a ton, but only stored 5MB of data. Introduced by IBM in 1956, was the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). The drive had fifty 24-inch diameter storage disks. It could locate a single record in 600 milliseconds (0.6 of a second). While 5MBs seems like nothing today, it was the equivalent of 64,000 punched cards! The container could have held more disks, and therefore could have had more storage capacity. The 5MB limit was set by IBM’s marketing department. They couldn’t figure out a sales pitch for anything greater than 5MBs!

Oh, I didn't really think you were any kind of 'menace'. I can easily picture the brutal drain on your funds, though. I suspect between lawyer's fees and an extended period of minimal income, you were feelin' some serious money pain.

Domino expert, huh? Hey, that's great. For some stereo-typing reason (that I probably acquired from questionable sources, such as television police dramas), I figured most people left with advanced lock-picking skills, or something of that nature. That might be true at San Quentin or some other notorious prison, though. I'm glad to hear it wasn't dangerous there, and through your entrepreneurial skills were able to 'elevate your cuisine'. Well, Derek, hopefully you're no longer a menace to society.

DOS76 said Its been a long time (3/4/2005 the morning I left for my ten month all inclusive state sponsored vacation) but that looks delicious. Now I just hope that you don't get in trouble for posting it Ouch, Derek! I'm gonna guess that wasn't your best vacation. Yah, hopefully I won't take any heat for the picture. But, after all, it's just a picture, and certainly nothing I know anything about. P.S. However, if Jason thinks it would be best to delete it (perhaps it would be), that's okay with me.

I'm not sure how I came into possession of this [photo], but here it is :

It'll be interesting to see where this leads. Rubber bullets today, Nano photon torpedoes tomorrow.

After my last Topic of 'Jungle Book', it reminded me of Hatsune Miku. I found out about 'her' a few years ago. She's a 3D Holographic Rock Star (or was) in Japan! (She sometimes performs with Megurine Luka, another Holographic Rock Star). Check out this video. She can dance, too. I like the 25-seconds (or so) that follow the 1'35" mark. P.S. I can't tell for sure, but to me, she appears to be at least 7 feet tall.