PixlBit

I remember you! I liked your contributions at 1up and it was always interesting to see what you were playing.

Joey, I don't think it has the 430, but I can't for the life of me remember what it does have. It was my dad's pride and joy, he let me help him work on it (which he didn't let my brother do!), but my role was mostly support - looking for the right size socket, cleaning plugs, etc.

Note cards have been the easiest way for me, personally, if I'm trying to stay on topic and not get distracted. It wasn't until I got to college and was working in the Learning Resource Center as a tutor that I learned about using note cards. Before that, I used to try using outlines, but that really never worked for me. Good luck and glad I could help.

Punk makes me happy.

One of the worst concerts I've ever been to was one that I was really excited to get a ticket for. It wasn't the music, it was the people in the crowd. Some were what we refer to as "plastic Paddies" and others acted like they were in a bar. I'll paste what I wrote about it into an email. You'll get a chuckle or two.

Jamie, Turn, Turn, Turn was done by The Byrds. I like their version better than the original, but I'm not a fan of Pete Seeger.

Don't worry about not commenting, Jamie. That will be me next month. 3D life take precedence over cyber life.

I have a love/hate relationship with digital download. I love that I can get hard to find classics and quality games not otherwise available, but I hate the impermanence of the whole thing.

Oh, and you can do pretty much everything we used to have to code ourselves with the blogging tool bar.

My first Nintendo console was a GBA SP and then a Game Cube, so I missed out on the Metroid games. My first experience with them was with Metroid Prime (that I haven't spent much time with, but liked what I did), and that gave me a taste of what I was missing. I've since tracked down the GBA classic remake of Metroid, but playing on that tiny screen leaves a lot to be desired. I'll dig out my GC and Game Boy Player one of these day and get to it.

Shanties are much, much, much later than Vikings. Shanties are work songs, I'll be doing a separate entry for them later. I love them, especially when you have a really good shantyman who knows what he (and more rarely, she) is doing. The problem is that you get a lot of people who haven't got a clue about what the song was for and they sing way too frigging fast. My take on the stuff sung in bars is that people sing it because they like to sing. Nothing fake about that. Some is very good, some, well, let's just say at least the people singing are having fun and leave it at that.

I checked out your links. Based on what I heard, I'd recommend Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, and Clannad. Check out Clannad's soundtrack to the Robin of Sherwood BBC TV series. There's a top 100 list on YouTube for them here. The other thing I recommend is getting a Last FM account and just plug in the artist's name that you like and see what happens. I've found a lot of music that way.