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Obligatory “four things”

Posted by Ben Margolin on January 26, 2006 under General

A buncha folks are doing it, I guess i’m jump on the bandwagon; writing a post of specific 4-item lists about themselves. This seems about as self-referential and indulgent as blogging can get, so I feel confident I’m doing my part to destroy any wider benefits the medium might be capable of today. What will others think of me? Should I leave “Tron” off the movies list? Oh wait, no one reads this anyway, whew.

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:

  1. Museum ticketing agent
  2. House painter (well, more like assistant to house painters. I was the one who got to climb/fall of the ladders, which may explain a lot)
  3. Engineering Director of a publicly-traded porn company
  4. Yahoo! manager

Four movies I can watch over and over:

  1. Goodfellas
  2. Wargames
  3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  4. Tron

Four TV shows I love to watch:

  1. The Simpsons
  2. The Daily Show
  3. Frontline
  4. NOVA

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

  1. Seattle
  2. Paris
  3. Copenhagen
  4. Detroit, unfortunately

Four of my favorite dishes:

  1. Filet mignon
  2. Macaroni and cheese
  3. Lasagna (which maybe should be considered a variant on mac & cheese?)
  4. Hamachi sushi

Four websites I visit daily:

  1. prince.org
  2. Yahoo! News
  3. Bloglines
  4. my team’s Bugzilla queue

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. Rolling around on the carpet playing with my son
  2. Drinking coffee at a cafe on Las Ramblas in Barcelona with my wife uhh… edit! -Ben
  3. Scubadiving off Fiji. Not that I know how to scuba, but I think I’d really like it…
  4. Sleeping

Four bloggers I am tagging to do this as well:

  1. Jeff Boulter
  2. Dave Viner
  3. Ubaldo Huerta
  4. Russel Beattie

FYI: some other posts like this I’ve read…

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Now those were the days!

Posted by Ben Margolin on November 20, 2004 under Computers

I was looking for some old photoshop images I had made and stumbled across some pretty ancient stuff. Once upon a time I ran a BBS (or “bulletin board system” for those of you born post-1979) called “Tog Dog: the Evil Clown of Pork”. I apparently actually still have a DOS .com file advertising it (it would get zipped up into archives available for download.)
Here’s a “screenshot”: Screenshot of ad for my old BBS

Pretty funny: up to 28.8kbps, and a whopping 420 megs of storage (which if I recall correctly, was spread across 3 harddisks!)
The .com file is dated 4/1994, but I’m pretty sure that was just when it got copied onto the drive… I think the dialup site was pretty much dead by then.

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