I came across this flyer for a local band today and something caught my eye. The guitarist on the left bore more than a passing resemblance to our own Binkmeister, and then I spotted the name label (I swear, this is an un-doctored scan).....
Yep, apparently Binky, though he lives in the midwest, is in a small Florida band doing gigs that must promote themselves through spam faxes to our office!
Being the old man that I am (born in 1969 -- you do the math), I burned through many, many, many rolls of quarters in my mall's Barrel of Fun arcade in the early 80's and have owned my fair share of home computers (way back when they weren't common appliances and only had 8 bits) and a good number of gaming consoles.
For the record, my gaming lineage goes something like this: Sears Pong/Tennis Sears Telegames (aka Atari 2600) Genuine Atari 2600 Atari 400 Computer Atari 800 Computer Atari 800
I've had my own rarely-used and even more rarely-read blog for quite some time over at CONTRADICTION.INFO, and despite its only occasional use, I'm still a firm believer in the value of a blog.
I've always felt like the most interesting thing on the internet is the people who populate it and what makes them tick. Before the days of blogging, a personal homepage consisted of photos of your cat, your preferred football team logo and some animated GIFs of your then-favorite TV show (long-since
