Author: Brett

I’ve been thinking about “the old days” and I wondered what happened to the cofounders of Sierra On-Line, Ken and Roberta Williams. I found this 2006 Interview with Ken that lays it all out. After they sold Sierra to CUC in 1996 the new management kind of made a mess of things and the company…

Kai Krause, of “Kai’s Power Tools” fame, kind of disappeared over the last decade. People know him for KPT, but he’s also the guy behind Kai’s Power Soap, Bryce, and a handful of other plugins and tools that helped popularize photo editing and digital imaging at a time when PhotoShop was years away from becoming…

BBC 4 just put together an outstanding documentary of the history of easy listening music. It’s on YouTube now. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 All the greats are covered, from Ray Conniff to Percy Faith to Bert Kaempfert and everyone thereafter.

Get drunk, not fat. Liquor broken down by calorie count and calorie-to-alcohol ratio. Get drunk, not broke. Liquor broken down by alcohol content, and price-per-oz of alcohol.

This one made me laugh out loud. Repeatedly. It is so truly awkward and wonderful. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlIrI80og8c

The Top Five Regrets of dying people, culled from years of hospice care. 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I didn’t work so hard. 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. 4. I…

My favorite part is when Stephen Spielberg can’t figure out who to shoot. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM

In-Flight Entertainment presents Sounds Sensational by the Mike Sammes Singers. Lots of high-energy, high-volume doo-doo-doos here. Good stuff!

The first person to climb Eiger mountain in the Swiss Alps took three days to do it. Ueli Steck just did it in under three hours. This video makes my hands and feet sweaty. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-dPjDYVKUY

Meet The Cleverlys, a bluegrass band that plays mainly covers of non-bluegrass music. In character. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWYX_wtzJ0