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Individual Machine RSS
April 1, 2024It’s always risky to publish a blog post on April 1. Especially a serious one. And I can assure you, with the utmost sincerity, that this is a serious post. You can’t joke about RSS.
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The Podcast is Back
March 26, 2024After four years of silence, we have something to say. The mics have been feather dusted. Audacity has been updated. Episode 8 of our podcast, Mappin’ Around w/ Scott & Ryan, is in the bank. Additional episodes are in the planning stages.
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Reflecting on 2023
December 28, 2023In order to reflect back on 2023, we must gaze upon it in a mirror. What is reflected back? Mostly ourselves, since ourselves is what usually shows up in mirrors. Which maybe means that we - and you, too - are 2023.
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Pinball Map App Now Available On Tidbyt
November 4, 2023I love a gadget. I think I get this from my father, a locally famous gadgetman who filled my K-12 bedroom with his hand-me-down computer equipment and old televisions. I find it very satisfying to take something that is (or looks) slightly away from its time, and shoehorning something new into its vocabulary. A new (but kind of old looking) thing that I have recently been very into is the TidByt. For those that aren’t familiar with it, the TidByt is a little box that you put on your desk that displays micro-messages and images in a style that my children would describe as “block old timey art like your basement Nintendo”. It looks very cool! And, you can write your own programs for it. I made an app that shows me when the next bus was going to show up in front of my house. Could I just look out the window and see? Maybe! I’m not going to risk eye contact with a passerby though. With my transit problems solved, I decided to make something that would show me the three most recent pinball machines added near by house. How did I do it, you may have wondered? Maybe you didn’t wonder before, but are starting to wonder if maybe you do wonder? I don’t know. And frankly, I don’t have control over that side of the conversation.
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Pinball Map Seminar at Pinball Expo 2023
October 22, 2023This past weekend we were privileged to present a seminar at Pinball Expo 2023. We’d like to thank Rob Berk for inviting us, and all the other organizers and staff for putting it on. We’d also like to thank David Marston for his great introduction to our seminar. It was a very fun event.
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