Yes, I know I am really in a rut as far as updates go. I’ve been mostly busy with other computer
related activities, but don’t think I haven’t been preparing cool stuff. For example,
click here to see my side by side
comparison of Pat’s and Geno’s cheesesteaks. These two businesses are here in Philadelphia and
are across the street from one another. They’re both open 24/7 and their prices are identical.
Once you examine their food, however, you start to see differences. I used to totally hate
cheesesteaks before I came here. What we make in Houston is usually a sad misrepresentation of
the real Philly Cheesesteak. So, click the link and learn something new. Pretty pictures accompany
the article, of course. Who do you think I am?


I’ve been living in my new apartment for over two months now and so far I’ve furnished it with
a second hand bed and desk. I’ve been keeping the rest of the place bare and I like that a lot.
However, I’ve decided I needed something unique to liven the place up. My answer? Pinball games.
They’re better than arcade games because you can find a PC emulator for almost all the old classic
arcade games out there. Pinball is different because you can’t emulate the physical nature of
the game. There are bells and bumpers and paddles and those holes that the ball falls into and
pops out of and flashing lights and tilting and sounds coming out of the display. My first
target, courtesy of the fine folks of eBay, is a Charlie’s Angels pinball game. I’ve got to
show off my sensitive side, okay? So what better way than by inviting three hot female detectives
from the 1970’s into my humble abode? We’ll see in less than 24 hours if I’ve won the auction or
not. Fingers crossed!

The first pictures above were taken on 06-30-2002,
the night before I *finally* got my DeLorean inspected and registered again. I installed all of
the time machine gizmos in the car in the hopes that the inspectors would be so stupified by the
cool nature of the car that I’d get whatever waiver I wanted. It worked. A few hours
later I was standing in line at the courthouse to get the registration sticker now that I finally
had my elusive inspection sticker. I snapped these two photos below as a start of my homage to
Back to the Future, my all time favorite movie. The DVD set of all three films will be released
on December 17th, 2002! Licensing issues are all taken care of and there are lots of goodies on
the disks for geeks like me to salivate over for weeks on end. Yay. Okay, so look at these
pictures now and be impressed by my artistic eyeball.


The third photo above is a picture of a prop replica I bought off eBay. I’ve gotten rather fond of these
replicas because buying the real thing tends to be a fairly expensive venture. There are a lot of prop
ripoffs out there as far as ”Back to the Future” is concerned, but occasionally you’ll find something
unique even if it’s a fake. This little red Chevrolet convertible is just like
the one Doc Brown used to ‘test’ the DeLorean hitting the clock tower plan at the precise moment the lightning strikes.
Yeah, the test didn’t prove anything other than the fact that the little car was very flammable and could have been the reason why his
mansion eventually burns down. You see Doc put out the little car’s fire with an extinguisher.
Okay, yeah, I’ll stop bothering you guys with my insane BTTF trivia. Buhbye.