My Accomplishments

Since I've been sick and have stayed home from work yesterday and today, I'm proud to say that I've accomplished more than in a couple of hours than I could have ever dreamed of doing at work. Besides napping, eating chimichangas, and consuming enough Echinacea to kill a 5-pound tumor, I've already aptly defeated two classic Nintendo games.

First, I thoroughly vanquished Count Dracula in "Castlevania". As you can see in the picture above, I even rubbed it in a little by demolishing a good portion of his castle on my way out after stomping a hole in Dracula's head. I would have finished the whole thing off, but I ran out of dynamite.

Next, I decided to go after an evil wizard in "Wizards and Warriors".

This game also provides for about an hour-and-a-half of raging 8-bit entertainment. I only have one qualm with it though, and that's the 'Cloak of Invisibility' that you pick up in one of the underground levels. Sounds like a cool item, huh? Maybe at first, but either it's defective somehow or all of the monsters in this game can see in infrared, because when you put it on they can still see you.

Here I am, you can clearly see me sporting my new cloak, not realizing that a bat is about to swoop on me from behind and kill me with a rabies infection:

And, this is my dead body, still invisible (although you can see my leg dangling over that rock):

That being said, if you ever play this game, you should avoid that thing just like princess Penelope at a frat party...

Penelope is like a doorknob... everybody gets a turn

Finally, after many distractions and countless urges to go to sleep, I defeated the wizard and scored the girl.

Now I'm off to take a nap before putting some more well-appropriated time into my Nintendo emulator.

God Bless America.

Robin Strikes Back... The Return of Robin

I've been really sick and decided to stay home today, and in my boredom I remembered this site. I usually have been posting blogs on Myspace, but I think that Myspace is a different crowd of people (or they're at least on there for different reasons) and I like the idea of blogging here where it's a bit more serious and intellectual.

I changed my blog title to "The Pale Blue Spot", which is in reference to Carl Sagan's book, "Pale Blue Dot". It reflects many of my feelings of the true place for our planet and our species in this universe, and of the big picture that so many of us never stop to think about as we rush through our busy lives.