Props go out to Mr.T who is now 31. Man we are getting old. I remember in 7th grade, 17 years ago Mr.T would visit me in the school library and see my latest creation on the computer. Usually it was "Mr. Biggles In Space". I would have a little guy walk around get in a rocket ship and then land on another planet. Then he would walk around and get in a boat and go over a waterfall. Then another planet would fire missiles at his planet and blow it up like star wars. It was always fun to make animations on the ole Apple IIe computer. I remember you only had 7 colors to work with and 228 x 128 pixels to work with. I got good enough to visualize the matrix in my head and I could program a whole animation scene without plotting anything down. That was fun. I would use those skills in science class to make learning software for the teachers. I would have the screen draw different species of animals so the kids could memorize them. It was always fun creating software that someone needed. Although sometimes I did have errors. I seem to remember getting called out of class to fix a software bug. Back then we didn't have the blue screen, we just had a line "SYNTAX ERROR AT 20". Ah, the good ole days.

Thought of the Day
"The greasy doorknob, the constant licking of the fingers. He's hooked on this chicken, isn't he?"
- Jerry, about Kramer, in "The Chicken Roaster"