That's funny! That's actually how I broke my wrist. On a dirt bike. We were seeing who could jump their dirt bike highest off a hill in an old quarry.
Boys are supposed to try to kill themselves. What we have now is just unnatural. -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:43 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man Can't tell you how many times I spilled off of my dirt bike before the age of 10... Reaching for the kill switch to turn the motor off to realize that the barbed wire has ahold of you...Now motorcycles have 4 wheels...I guess they're fun, too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > Go down to the beaches now or the parks or the local swimming pools. Not > many there. I've tried to get my brats to do active things. Right! > > One of the boys sprained his shoulder 2 days ago at school. Gym class, > was > throwing footballs. I honestly think it's the first time he ever strained > a > muscle other than his thumbs or mouse clicking index finger. So he's all > whining about it. I told him it's about time he got a real injury! > > Sheeeeesh! Kids. At his age, 13, I already had dog bites, one snake > bite, > a broken wrist, scars, etc..... > > Electronics suck! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Nash - Lists > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:51 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > Yeesh back in '79 the coolest things I had access to were my baseball > glove > and my trombone cuz I was in JUNIOR HIGH!!! > > Then there was taking my boogie board to Huntington beach almost every > single day on the bus in the summer. Didn't need devices in those days. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike" <m...@aweiowa.com> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:25 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > > Now there are some memories! We played Star Trek on the University of > Iowa > Engineering mainframe back in 1976. Between sessions, you saved your game > on punch tape and took the loop home with you. > > Friendly Regards, > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:20 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > Pacman, Excitebike, Galaga, MechWarrior, taking me back! Go back a bit > further to Zork - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork. > > Here is an interesting story: I was an IBM Field Engineer in my > previous life. When I first started there, I maintained System/360 > mainframes for the large banks in LA. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_360 > We loaded and ran two games on the system back in 1979, Zork and > Startrek. LOL, the banks "timeshared" the system and tracked usage in > order to bill each department. One day they asked why engineering was > running so many diagnostics :) > -RickG > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> > wrote: >> Used to go down to Laguna Beach CA with a group. They had a LAN system > with >> full-surround pods & intercom to your teammates. Had mech battles >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:41 AM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man >> >> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:33, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> >> wrote: >>> They have a version of the arcade joy stick and button board to plug >>> into >>> the computer if you are using MAME or other arcade emulators. I >>> purchased >>> one for the wife a couple of years back so she could play some god awful >>> game called Elevator Action on her laptop. Game sucks but the X-Arcade >>> deal >>> is pretty sweet. >> >> I know. One of these weeks I'll buy one of their big dual joysticks, >> hook it up to the PS3, and have a wild Super Street Fighter IV party. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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