July 13, 2021: Reader Tips

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For those who play video games, here’s a preview of some of the best set that will be released in 2021-H2.

Pop Quiz: What’s the first video game or personal computer you remember playing/using and do you recall what year it was?

Your most interesting tips of the past day are most welcome.

116 Replies to “July 13, 2021: Reader Tips”

  1. Alberta will not bring in COVID 19 passports.
    Premier Kenney said: “I believe they would in principle contravene the Health Information Act and also possibly the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.”

    Kenney noted Alberta also amended its Public Health Act to remove a 100-year-old power allowing the government to force people to be inoculated. “These folks who are concerned about mandatory vaccines have nothing to be concerned about,” he said.

    https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-premier-says-province-will-not-bring-in-covid-19-vaccine-passports-1.5505988

    2. Nancy
      Glad to hear that.

      But I’m Still not voting for you or your party JASON – YOU will forever remain a Fascist globalist ass kissing POS.. One who should smell the air and understand it’s time to jump into your Ferd and leave this province – NEVER to return.

      Why did it take this province decades to remove a Law allowing MANDATORY Vaccination when the Nuremberg Laws laid down in 1946 already Forbade that exact thing..??? A Document Canada signed.

      GIT….ya two bit nazi.

      1. Yes, it’s as it should be especially since these experimental injections aren’t genuine vaccines. I agree with you that the Alberta government should have removed the enforcement of vaccines from the laws in 1946 as per the Nuremberg Laws. Good point. (It’s not as if they’re underpaid workers)

        1. Our politicians tend to shoot themselves in the foot all the time when they take the wrong path in their all in attempt and attacks.
          The manufacturer and our governments may have protection from prosecution, employers do not when they forced an employee to be ‘fully-vaccinated’ as we have a thing called labour laws.
          The other problem is if even a small percentage(more than critically effected) are injured from this experimental vaccination, they are more reliant than ever on ongoing Healthcare treatments to an already over burdened system.

          2. Nancy:

            They don’t care that it’s the taxpayers who’re footing the bill.

    3. Some will say Tin Foil Some will say Shit Really?
      With all the lies and propaganda by the State Controlled Propagandists who really knows.
      The Old Enquirer or Globe had more credibility. Anyway. Why did Haiti with NO Healthcare system. And No Vaccines have less cases and fatalities than the comparable sized population of New Jersey? You have to admit. It is a fair question.

      https://noqreport.com/2021/07/13/mounting-evidence-shows-haitian-president-moise-was-assassinated-before-blowing-whistle-on-vaccines/

  2. First games I remember playing are: Panama Joe, Manic Miner, Knight Lore, Alien 8, Atic Atac.
    First game beaten with no cheats: Sorcery.
    First computer ZX Spectrum with the whooping 48K memory. I am guessing 1986 or similar was the year.

    1. BTW of the new upcoming games in the linked video I am really only looking forward to Far Cry 6, will probably not be as wonderfully offensive and hilarious as Far Cry 5 and or even as New Dawn but should be fun. Dying Light and Horizon 5 also look somewhat interesting, but probably not worth the initial price.

    2. Tiger Woods Golf on my IBM 286 computer … complete with electronic voice which said … “YOU … are in the Parking Lot” OB … and a tough lie … but Tiger’s REAL OB and tough lays ‘came’ many years later …

      1. My favorite is ‘Serious Sam’ blowing the crap out of the different monsters coming at you with a multitude of different weapons…but it also had cool music to go with the different levels being achieved.
        None of the additional series could match that first edition.

    4. coleco.. Mario, zaxxon.. 81-ish.. still playing dying light, fallout 4.. metro..

      1. VOWG

        I did and got Permanently banned in 2018….for the Heinous CRIME of questioning the veracity of Trans folks in our Canadian Population. (am thinking it was GMButts who had some minion go after me – the tweet was already 3 months old .. and I was on that ASSHOLEs case a LOT, along with his human drone, PM Imbecile…)

        TWATTER truly needs to be Anihillated…as does Fascist Book.

        But, I can still log on and see whats going on – and in cases like this actually VOTE NO..!! which i did.

        1. Why I don’t use twitter and am even reluctant to click on a link. One of the reasons I do not provide links. If I mention a site, I would expect anyone here would have the ability to visit the site, or not, without a link.

  4. First video game was Pong on an Atari system that interfaced with a television late 1970s.

    Also played a lot of Sierra interactive games, not really video games, such as Leisure Suit Larry series, King’s Quest series and Space Quest series on a 386 in the late 80s-early 90s.

    1. Didn’t the first moon lander have a tv screen with Pong __?
      Might be wrong, could have been Aliens.

      1. The control panels of Apollo Lunar Module were covered with gauges and switches. In between the stations for the Commander and Lunar Module Pilot was the DSKY, the display keyboard for the computer. There was enough going on during the descent that a visual display would have been a needless distraction.

        That was one reason why a crew of two was needed. The CDR concentrated on flying the spacecraft while the LMP kept track of the vital functions and read them out. If you listen to the recording of the Apollo 11 landing, Aldrin was doing most of the talking and, in fact, the first words spoken when the Eagle touched the lunar surface (“Contact light.”) were his. That contact light indicated to the CDR that the probes below the footpads (about 2 metres long) had made contact and that the descent engine could be shut down.

        The movie you were thinking about was Alien and, yes, the spacecraft had a rudimentary video display of the terrain around the landing point.

        1. Very scholarly BADR. I love your technical knowledge on items like this, thank you.

          1. You’re welcome.

            Actually, I had an LM plastic model kit many years ago and I wanted to add a detailed interior. I wrote to Grumman, which was the prime contractor, asking for information and they sent me some nice black and white photos of the control panels.

            I never did get around to finishing that model, but, still, it was nice that I got that information, particularly since I was a teenager seriously considering engineering as a career.

        2. The thing I always marveled at was the fact that the Moon Landings etc, were done with the control of computers with less speed and computer power than a modern cell phone…
          That fact still blows me away.

          1. Keep in mind that the computers served two purposes.

            One was guidance. The equations for the trajectories are straightforward. The other was housekeeping. In other words, the computer told the spacecraft when to execute certain maneuvers. Those functions were coupled so that, say, an engine burn would occur if the spacecraft was at a certain altitude.

            At the same time, there was a man at the controls, someone who could over-ride the computer if necessary or input data to revise the spacecraft’s actions. But that wasn’t all. There was ample back-room support that was available to advise and provide updates.

            The actual programming itself reminds me of machine language or assembler. If I remember correctly, data in the memory registers were referred to as “nouns” while actions were “verbs”. I suspect that one reason it was done that way was to reduce the amount of memory that would have been required.

            For example, during the landing of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Antares, Al Shepard and Ed Mitchell had to do some work to be able to land. One problem was attributed to the abort switch possibly being set. The cause was believed to have been a loose ball of solder and Mitchell cleared it up by tapping on the DSKY.

            Then there was a related problem, which could have made the computer abort the landing during the descent phase. The programming team at MIT quickly came up with a workaround and Mitchell first copied it down on paper and then keyed it in. If I remember correctly, the computer was re-programmed to ignore the abort signal.

            The last major problem was that the landing radar didn’t lock on right away after the LM rotated into position. The associated breaker was recycled and the radar worked after that.

        3. Thank you BADR for the facts on the computer system. I had no idea. A computer geek friend. Told me my phone had more computational power than the Apollo Space craft.

          1. You’re welcome.

            Keep in mind that weight was always a critical design factor in designing spacecraft. The smaller it is, the better and the simpler it is, the better. The crews had enough to do with their flight plans that anything that diverted from them could have jeopardized their respective missions. In addition, a small and simple design would also likely be more robust, considering the forces that the equipment was subject to during launch.

            In addition, higher-level languages such as what many of us are familiar with, weren’t as common during the early days of the space program as they are now, so a simple programming approach would have been better.

            From what I understand, programming the on-board computers wasn’t much different from programming a hand calculator now.

          2. Also, keep in mind that your phone is the descendant of several generations of electronic development.

            The first integrated circuits were invented in the late 1950s. (Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Dr. Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor are given the simultaneous credit, with Kilby eventually winning the Nobel Prize. Noyce, having died before the award, couldn’t qualify.) Those devices had a few components and pins on them and they were fairly large.

            With each successive generation, components became smaller, and the component density (the number of devices per unit area) increased. In addition, based on the materials that are used and the manufacturing techniques, the speed of those integrated circuits rose correspondingly.

            For example, I bought a PowerMac 7100 in 1994. I was thrilled when it ran at something like 700 MHz. A present-day single-board computer, such as a Raspberry Pi or Arduino, which is about the size of a credit card, can easily match the performance of the older machine.

            So, it’s no exaggeration when one says that a smartphone has more computing ability than the Apollo guidance and landing computers.

    2. My first video game was also Pong but a table model at the local mall just outside the Woolco store. Think it was 3 plays for a quarter. Can’t recall the year but it would have been around 1970.

  6. The first video computer game I remember playing was some sort of Star Trek game that had to be uploaded with a portable cassette deck.
    I think it was around 1979/80 at a friend’s place.
    The first video game I ever played was Pong around 1976 I believe. It was set up in Eastgate Mall in Sherwood Park.

  7. The first computer game I played was Othello on an Apple II nearly 40 years ago. Mind you, there were all sorts of novelty things I could tinker with on the mainframes I worked with while I worked on my first master’s degree.

  8. GAME:
    PONG…..!!!!! First time I saw this was in # 5 Orange Street Bar on Water St in YVR.
    That was I do believe in 1974/75 or so…. twas a blast.!!

    Twas also in the days when I didn’t give a damn about my body – Pong on bennies and Mego Draft Beer was something to behold…LOL..!! I still think its one of the best games they ever created…ya had to be fast..!! and it was a ton of fun.

    Computer:
    1986. SAIT final Paper for my Engineering Technology Diploma.
    Not sure of the Brand, (compaq possibly), an 8086 or an 8088 – 8 or 16bytes RAM (we needed a 6″) floppy disc with “Word Star” along with a blank to do our paper . To bold something, I recall it was: SHIFT ALT Q…!! Printed on a dot matrix printer. Me and my partner were the only ones that used a computer for our paper….everyone else used a typewriter…or did theirs long hand.

    We also had a BASIC handheld unit – Sharp PC1401 it was called. ‘Twas basically a beefed up calculator but one could write “basic all purpose symbolic Instruction code” on it (BASIC). We wrote ~100-300 line programs to do engineering math problems – pretty powerful for its time….Kinda wish I still had it…!! It was pretty kewl..!

    FAX was all the rage then as was the Cassette/LP killer – CD’s

    Them’s were the days….

      1. A Pong game that my best friend and his dad built from a Heath Kit. A quick internet search terms me that would have been around 1976.

        1. That sounds about right. Heathkit tended to follow whatever was popular in the market and, in fact, even offered a personal computer kit in the early 1980s.

    2. First computer game was 1970 at an IBM sales office playing formula 1 via a modem to a mainframe somewhere down east. 18 check points on the track where you entered Gear, Acceleration and Brake. 20 seconds later you received a print-out showing your position on the track and your elapsed time and current speed.

      Early 1970’s computer science class used coding sheets and punch cards…. what fun. First home computer game 1976? was Pong on a very bad TV, and then (1978?) Space Invaders on a Commodore 4032 with cassette drive. Moved up to an Amiga 1000 in 1988 with 2.5M of Ram (still have it and it works) with 4032 colors, stereo sound and great games like Speedball while IBM clones were blinking and dinging with 16 colors. Those were the days… no bloatware. Still have a complete set of IBM OS/2 on 26 floppies somewhere!

  10. Lunar lander on a TI programmable circa 1978 then The original adventure game on an Osborne 1 in 1982

    1. My first experience with a lunar landing simulator was on a mainframe computer in the old Chemical-Mineral Engineering building at the University of Alberta during Open House in 1974. I crashed.

      A few years later, I played with something similar in Yellowknife and I was successful this time.

      Those simulators weren’t games, as such, but were used to demonstrate the capabilities of the computer system, particularly the visual displays.

      1. I remember a precursor to Pong in the late ’60s. My computer work at university at the time was a lot more interesting than a table-tennis ball drifting across a CRT screen, so my recollection of time and place is incomplete. May have even been on the IBM 1800 or the DEC PDP 8 that the Chem Eng Department at the U of Alberta had in the late ’60s and may even be the same equipment that BA Deplorable saw during the 1974 Open House.

        But no problem remembering my first personal computer, I still have it. A Cosmac Elf with an RCA 1800 chip and 64 words of memory, a home-built expansion of a kit, sometime in the 70s. Programmed using a Hex keypad.

  11. I’m pretty sure the first game I ever played was Computer Space . There was one downstairs in Eatons in downtown Vancouver by the Malt Stop, If I’m remembering it correctly. That was a long time ago…I think it even predates Pong.

  12. 1981 – Texas Instruments TI99-4A. Favourite games were ‘Tunnels of Doom’ and Avalanche. Tunnels had a story concept similar to ‘Wolfenstien’, but very simple graphics in comparison. I designed and wrote my own version of ‘Jeopardy’ to play on it, but the available ram was so limited I couldn’t load more than a dozen questions. Also wrote a Yatzhee game. It only rolled the five dice, and you could choose which to re-roll. You still had to have the regular scorecard.

    1. I bought one of those machines when TI abandoned the personal computer market and they were dumped on the market at ridiculously low prices. I wrote a Morse code practice program for it, though it would be about 20 years before I became a ham and, later, passed my Morse exam.

      1. BA….most interesting..!!

        I spent 5 months while in the forces 1970’s learning Morse.
        First with flash cards, and then doing SMX’s (Simulated Morse Exercises…. We had 1940’s headphones and an Underwood typewriter. (With special extra keys – They were for 4 extra morse characters (Russian).

        Each exercise was 1000 characters: All in 5 character groups. We would do 3 SMX’s in a row with less than 5 mistakes… in order pass and move up to the next speed level. It started at 3 words per minute…I got as high as 18 wpm…

        Topractise we would do some at 22 pm and that would help us move up.

        It was actually pretty amazing that the letters you were typing were ones you heard 4 or 5 characters past…if ya know what I mean.

        Plain language was the hardest…as one tended to start reading what you were typing and ended up losing your “train” ….lol.

        “Comm Research” CFS Gloucester – Ottawa back in the day…

        1. In the mid-1980s, I bought a cassette practice tape from the American Radio Relay League but never got around to actually listening to it nearly 20 years later when I got serious about becoming a ham.

          I cobbled together a practice rig from a cheap straight key that I bought at a flea market, a buzzer I had left over, and a “wall wart” power supply. I practiced for a few minutes just about every day and, a year and a half later, I passed my Morse exam, giving me limited privileges on the HF bands.

          I’ve never used my Morse for transmitting, but I can easily copy 10 – 15 words per minute, which is what many directional beacons operate at. Those stations simply transmit their callsigns and, maybe, locations. If one can hear them, that means that a signal path in that direction is open.

          I still use paper and pen or pencil for copying Morse. One of these days, I’ll actually try typing.

    2. Hahahaha oh God I can still hear the music from ‘Tunnels of Doom’ in my head! Played that incessantly with my high school buds. I remember it had a feature where if you dropped your weapon it would print “XXXX, YOU ARE USING YOUR HANDS”, so one of my friends always called his character “JACK OFF”. Man, that was a while ago.

  13. First video game: Pong Atari console mid-seventies. It hooked up to the tv set.

    First computer: Commodore PET. My mother worked at a community college and would bring one home for me and my brother to use in the late seventies. She also worked with the people who would become Microsoft Canada. They wrote the software that would run the library system electronically.

  14. Omega Race on my friend’s Commodore-64.
    We were not “good enough” for our own home computer. Although we did have a very rare Odyssey-2 video game console.

  15. NALCOR, the Newfoundland government-run power generation corporation has just completed its 824-Megawatt Muskrat Falls hydro-electric dam. It was years-late, $6-billion over-budget, it has caused local power rates to more than double, and it has effectively bankrupted the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

    Hey, why don’t we do this AGAIN!

    Plans by the government and Nalcor are advancing quickly to begin planning and construction on the 2,250-Megawatt Gull Falls Hydro-Dam.
    “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Andrew Furey have noted Newfoundland and Labrador’s hydroelectric potential is huge, and that there have been talks with the Atlantic provinces on a potential future endeavour called the Atlantic Loop — an idea to connect the Atlantic provinces and potentially Quebec in a green-energy network with Muskrat Falls, Gull Island and possibly the Upper Churchill.”
    “Stan Marshall, the former president and CEO of Nalcor Energy, said recently that the time to go after the Gull Island project is now, while the province has the experience, skill and expertise available.”

    LOL, because apparently the experts did such a great job on Muskrat Falls.

    https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/canada/labradors-gull-island-hydroelectric-potential-sparks-interest-100600847/

  16. First to notice were conspiracy theorists. Next were the cranky comment-writers on conservative blogs (ahem, cough). Then there were the subversive economy writers, the ones who are shunned by mainstream business reporters and economists. Now it is the mainstream economists…………

    “Higher Inflation Is Here to Stay for Years, Economists Forecast. Americans should brace themselves for several years of higher inflation than they’ve seen in decades.”

    “The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge—the overall PCE index, which includes food and energy prices—rose 3.9% in May, nearly double the central bank’s 2% target.”

    “…the combination of plentiful federal stimulus funding, an unprecedented stockpile of household savings and the rollout of vaccines is driving a surge in consumer demand, enabling many businesses to raise prices significantly for the first time in decades. If households and businesses start to expect rising prices, that dynamic can become self-fulfilling.”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-inflation-is-here-to-stay-for-years-economists-forecast-11626008400

    When will the last domino fall? The central bankers…

  17. “Justin Trudeau, down on one knee, head inclined.
    Jacket, but no tie.
    Have to look Prime Ministerial, but not too formal, you know?
    Beard gone, hair trimmed, features grim.
    Gazing at the ground, in which the bodies of Indigenous children and babies had been buried, long ago, like so much garbage.
    The ground behind a former “residential school” in rural Saskatchewan.
    It all looks spontaneous, at first glance, but of course it isn’t. With Justin Trudeau, it never is.
    The clue: Trudeau is holding a small teddy bear, positioned perfectly within the frame of the photograph.
    Centred, perfectly lit, pointed out towards his official photographer, who has coincidentally come along for the ride to a dumping ground for dead babies.”

    (A perfect, devastating take-down of a cult leader, by a former cult member. Don’t shoot the messenger)
    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-prime-minister-always-ready-for-his-close-up

    1. “From the very first moment he appeared in the nation’s consciousness — when he delivered his moving, emotional, dramatic eulogy to his father, Pierre Trudeau in 2000 — he revealed himself to be a master of political symbols.
      His eulogy seemed to have been wrenched from his guts, from the depths of his soul.
      But it apparently wasn’t.
      His best friend, Gerald Butts, later blandly informed me that he wrote the eulogy. Not Trudeau.”

      (from the above link)

      1. A smart friend once said to me that, at times like these, Trudeau reveals himself to have no self-awareness.

        “Wrong,” I said to her.

        “Self-awareness is all he has.”

      2. What do you expect from someone whose life could have inspired the movie The Truman Show? Just about every aspect of his existence was public news, so he knows nothing else.

  18. Game? Not sure – the cool kids had Atari systems at home.
    We never did.
    Then in high school the cool kids had Commodore 64 computers and the REALLY cool kids had one with the 5 1/4″ drive.

  19. Not counting the Atari system with Pong and Tank, which a buddy of mine was the first to get when we were in Grade 8, the first game I played on a PC was on the TRS-80 in 1980, and it was called “Duchy of…” and I can’t remember the rest of it. It was a text (obviously) game where you managed a medieval estate, buying, selling, and growing stuff, and we had to load it from a cassette tape.
    The personal computing and video games revolution of the past 40 years has been so astonishing that I know what it must have felt like to be someone who witnessed both the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.

    1. DN.

      Comment of the Day..!!

      “..The personal computing and video games revolution of the past 40 years has been so astonishing that I know what it must have felt like to be someone who witnessed both the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk and the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon….”

    2. My maternal grandmother nearly did that. She was born nearly a year after Kitty Hawk and lived into the mid-1980s, so she got to watch on TV not just the lunar landings but the space shuttle flying.

  20. A friend had a ColecoVision ADAM, the whole thing was powered through the printer, another had the TI99x4A, had the cassette drive and later a floppy disk set up. We used to listen to the data tapes on a normal cassette player, early Techno, I guess..
    I got my first computer of my own, a Macintosh SE FDHD in 1987, quite the unit at the time, I had purchased a 2400 baud modem in the states on a visit and used it to run a BBS on a dedicated phone line, pre Internet. Still have it in original box.
    Another friend had an Amiga set up to run a Macintosh O/S, we’d share files..

    First games; pong and tank battle on an old Atari system, I had a space shuttle simulator game for it later on, it was quite hard to master.
    The local gas station had Space invaders and later Asteroids stand ups.
    School had Oregon (Trail) on an Apple II.

  22. I was never a video game player but I am currently involved in a project where we are finally replacing our Gould MODICON PLCs after 30 odd years of faithful, reliable service. It’s true that when they crash we need to re-upload the program off cassette tapes, and to upload the program off cassette tapes we have to first upload the operating system onto the programming unit off cassette tapes, which are getting hard to find, but they did what we asked them to do for 30 years. I’m pretty sure we won’t get the same value out of the replacement system.

    1. The Chinese did some games integration with the latest technology and that old Nintendo and Super Nintendo have all the games uploaded into the gaming system. I have both but have never hooked them up yet.
      Just some of my useless information you may not know about.

  23. Blackie’s CBC last night had its bag over the head news host interview a Queen’s University professor. The professor explained that all sanctions/blockades against Cuba should be lifted. After all, university professors want a return to their winter vacations in Cuba.

  24. Haha. Got everyone beat. I played pong at a nuclear reactor control room in pinawa manitoba in 1977?? Not sure of year. My uncle, Ralph mills, was an engineer there

  25. Pong had to be my first game, was 15 when I bought my first C-64 (I’ve got 4 of them and all the accessories tucked away in a couple boxes in the basement now – such a great machine to learn the basics of coding in machine language)

    Today is Playstation… Gran Turismo and over 1000 hours in Fallout 4 (prepping for whats coming lol)

  27. “Red Baron” on my sister’s Tandy. Late ’80’s
    I remember having to open it up and install a Soundblaster to get decent sound and a joystick port.

  28. First computer: Commodore PET
    First Video game: Star Trek. Had to be loaded and run from a cassette tape.

    1. The first game might have been “Lemonade Stand” now that I think about it. That PET had 16k of memory and ran on BASIC. We even learned a bit of BASIC in school then.

      My father kept it in its original box with all the peripherals, cassettes and paperwork including the receipt until about 6 years ago when he and my sister decided it was time for some spring cleaning so they took it to the local Best Buy and dropped it off in their electronics recycling drop off. Smart people can be as dumb as anyone sometimes.

      Man, now that I’m taking this trip down video game lane, my father used to bring us back stuff from Hong Kong and one time he brought back some little hand held video games from a company that eventually got bought by Nintendo. That would have been late 70s. We still have them and they work. Octopus, Mickey Mouse catching eggs…

  29. Just off the business wires: the U.S. CPI increased by 0.9% in June (over May, month to month), vs. the 0.5% expected. Year over year, the CPI increased by 5.4%. These figures are much higher than what was expected.

    Prepare for a serious inflation. Buy gold and silver.

    1. David you seem like a smart gent. Riddle me this, what is the purpose of tracking the CPI? I always understood this was to track the rate of inflation in the economy. Correct. To do this they use a basket of goods or services etc that the average consumer uses or requires throughout the year…
      What always gets me, and this is a fact. The single largest expenditure of all families and consumers in Canada is the cost of GOVERNMENT.
      Through TAXATION. But we do not consider or track that with the CPI, the single largest expenditure of very family and we do not track it under CPI. In my humble opinion the CPI stats are worthless. Because they are a scam.

      https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/average-canadian-family-spent-more-on-taxes-in-2018-than-basic-necessities-1.4534992

      1. B A, I agree with you. But the CPI tracks only after-income tax inflation. It does include sales taxes The CPI is important since the inflation will be important, One more cost of our quarantine.

        Btw, the stock market is way down today, because of the CPI reading.

  31. Confusion reigns supreme on Turtle Island regarding mixing vaccines. Great pictures of diverse people in diverse Toronto walking away from vaccine sites this morning after finding out they had to mix vaccines. Dr. Trudeau’s lapdog procurement minister is shifting the blame to the provinces. She states it is up to the provinces to mix vaccines. Nothing to do with the federal government. Besides, Teddy Bear Justin is busy virtually campaigning in Nova Scotia today.

    1. This asshole(our Mr. God to you peasants) was warned at the beginning of the Pandemic NOT to mix these joy juices by the creator…
      But as usual, our government and politicians listen well.
      Still missed the time-line too on the intervals between shots.

  32. Atari system, War and Space Invaders, late 70s.

    On to the not-so-news… https://www.studyfinds.org/covid-19-cure-ivermectin/
    A team of researchers, including three U.S. government senior scientists, are calling for governments around the world to start treating coronavirus patients with ivermectin. Their findings reveal the drug not only prevents people from contracting COVID, but also defeats the virus and saves lives.

    1. C_Miner,
      I like the last paragraph of your link:
      “We can no longer rely on many of the larger health authorities to make an honest examination of the medical and scientific evidence. So, we are calling on regional public health authorities and medical professionals around the world to demand that ivermectin be included in their standard of care right away so we can end this pandemic once and for all.”
      The findings appear in the American Journal of Therapeutics.

    2. And Not one FASCIST Health Mouthpiece in this country has ALLOWED its use.

      To me..?? This is Willful CRIMINALITY folks and these Fascist Mofo’s need to be held accountable – PreMeditated MURDER in fact.

      1. India is trying to get doctors associated with WHO on trial for genocide for their comments about Ivermectin.

  33. Blacklock reports the Dept. of National Defence loses millions of dollars on golf courses it operates. Although full disclosure, I spend a lot of time at the Base Borden golf club.

    1. A lot of military bases are shitholes. It’s done to keep people happy so they stick around. A lot of Alberta oil towns had arenas and curling rinks built by oil companies. You want families to hang around so you don’t have to repeatedly train single drunks and druggies.

      1. It also depends on where those bases are located. I used to live next door to a retired Canadian army officer and he likened some of those places to being in prison.

        For example, CFB Suffield is about half an hour west of Medicine Hat along the Trans-Canada. There’s not a lot there and I’ve heard stories about some of the Brits who were brought in for training going a bit squirrelly.

        One day, a British soldier decided to make a run for it and had up to 4 police forces after him: the British MPs when he bolted from the British section, the Canadian MPs when he drove to the highway, the RCMP once he got onto the Trans-Canada, and, finally, the Medicine Hat police when he crossed the city limits and went on foot when the car he was driving conked out.

        And, then there were those soldiers who, when given a pass to go into MH, went to some of the local strip joints and, shall we say, didn’t behave like gentlemen. The MPs soon took care of them.

        1. During the Falklands War a lot of rig hands and others were patting themselves on the back for doing such a good job of training the British soldiers in hand to hand combat in the Medicine hat bars.

          Lots of brawls.

          1. When I lived in MH, I lived within 10 minutes drive of half a dozen peeler bars. Considering what life was like in town for single men back then, I could see why there were so many of them.

        2. The stories about Prince Harry (during his British Army training stint) and his enjoyment of Medicine Hat strip clubs are legendary. When I worked on the Suffield Block in the early 2000s, I naturally had to find out about these stories for myself, so I partook in a few “research” visits myself.

          1. I suppose you’ve heard the joke about being a bachelor in Medicine Hat for a year. I won’t give away the punchline just yet if you haven’t.

  34. The original Akalabeth on the Apple II by Lord British was my introduction and why I bought and still own an Apple II with a 64K memory upgrade. I did my first AI project on a Mac with 1 MB of memory – a simulation of the human leg (complete with crude line graphics) with the foot fixed to the floor, a pinion for an ankle and a motor at the knee for my 4th year engineering project. Ah, those were heady times and I still have that Mac complete with the raised signature of Jobs and Wozniak on the inside of the case. What a nerd am I!

  36. Pong and Tank Battle, when I was a kid, had an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I preferred my slot racing sets, though, could actually learn stuff by modding them with higher power transformers, etc. Had an Atari 400 too, though I didn’t play games on it.
    Video games are for kids, and the infantalization of society, with grown men spending hours and hours on them is pretty disheartening.

    1. J.West

      I’m currently watching this.
      Talk about an incriminating BOMBSHELL…HOLEEEE smokes.!!

      Folks: You ALL should have a listen.
      Dr.David Mitchel with Reiner Fuellmich

      The CovSars 2 vaccine was not created in the past year….Pfizer had this mfgd as far back as the yr 2000 using the same Spike Protein as now.

      SARS itself was actually a Patented thing… in Jan 28, 2000.

      And I’m only into the first 10 min….

      1. wow oh wow oh wow…!!! still only half way through these incredible and believable revelations..,

        As per Dr Martin

        “The U of Carolina transferred US Patent # 7279327 to the NIH in 2018.
        In November of 2019, the NIH, U of Carolina & Moderna began sequencing a spike protein based Corona virus vaccine….one that would be used to ensure the population becomes addicted to…& would require annual or bi annual shots…”

        This – 3 months PRIOR to CovSars2 appearing.

        All of this being taken as basically EVIDENCE – a deposition so to speak for Fuellmich’s FRAUD trial coming to Nuremberg.

        Many many Many heads world wide must roll.

    2. Yes. Watched it last night. Dynamite. I wonder if the availability of this video is causing the CDC to temporarily say no to the booster approval. No one looks good on this. Martin really knows his stuff. I am sure he is right, though there may be more to the story.

      1. Yup, that is seemingly heavy duty evidence.
        As the Dude would say….”new shit has come to light, man.”
        Who will do anything about it?
        Fauci et al continue to play doctors on TV, and act as though this evidence doesn’t matter.

  39. True North reports that colonial statues in diverse Toronto are being replaced with “progressive” statues. Diverse city council is spending two hundred and fifty thousand taxpayer dollars on a statue of an NDP member of council. It will go nice with the current Jack Layton statue.

  40. I sometimes have to wonder about the logic behind recycling.

    Earlier this morning, I went to one place to drop off some waste material. One spray can wasn’t accepted because, according to the chap who I dealt with, the contents were “explosive”.

    When I asked what I’m supposed to do with it, I was told to “poke a hole in it”. Uh, I’m old enough to remember warnings printed on spray can labels that stated that the containers shouldn’t be punctured. (Yeah, there’s a reason they’re nicknamed “spray bombs”.) Now Mr. Smeghead tells me that’s what I’m supposed to do.

    He went on to tell me that the cans are ground up, and they may explode when that happens. Oh, so it’s not OK for them to blow up when they’re being destroyed, but it’s OK for them to possibly blow my head off if I try to render them “safe”?

    Am I missing something?

    1. “Recycling”

      In Calgary they do nothing of the sort (deposit types items yes), All “recyclable” materials go into the blue bins…they are I believe, sorted and then put into 40′ containers.

      Said containers are stored at some property in Foothills Industrial…seemingly forever. NOone on the planet wants it…and far too many abject woke Eco-Tard folks having no clue what to do as the rental of not only said containers climbs, so does the rent on the ever expanding property(s).

      I cannot for the life of me understand why we are seemingly unable to incinerate and produce usable power from this product in an efficient and atmosphere friendly manner…boggles the mind.

      1. I should have added that I’m at my house in B. C. right now. Yeah, B. C…… where laws for the entire province are enacted in Victoria….. enforced by woke soyboys and purple-haired lesbians spend their working hours sitting in front of computer screens in office cubicles.

        Meanwhile, I have to dispose of a number of jars, bottles, and jugs which have what I think are solvents and cleaners in them. So, those recycling wiseacres demand that I know exactly what that stuff is. Yet, they’ll willingly accept anything that looks like oil.

        Go figure.

  41. “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”

  47. The Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta has announced that Paul Hinman has been elected as leader.

  48. First video game I ever played was Pong in the foyer of a diner in New Jersey, around 1972, followed by other games in cabinets at arcades or bars, like Space Invaders. First computer game was on a TI 99/4A, probably Hunt the Wumpus, around 1981/82.

  49. Now I’m really dating myself…
    The first video game I ever played was Trek-78, on a TRS-80 Model II, back in 1979. The computer was owned by one of my teachers, and after school my friends and I would be allowed to load the game (from tape!) and go for it. I can still remember shouting “six one eighty! six one eighty!” to fire at the the Klingon ship to the immediate left of the Enterprise. One had to shout at whoever was actually typing.
    Arguably it was a GUI, not like games such as Zork which were strictly text.

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