Can’t-think-of-a-title Post…
Posted by Uma Damle | Filed under Uncategorized
An old drawing of mine.Don’t be fooled into thinking its Jolie again. It isn’t.
And NO.I couldn’t have extended the drawing a couple of inches in the downward direction. My graphic imagination isn’t anywhere near some of the people’s reading this blog.
As the year slowly draws to a close and so does my school life, I have been making a lot of trips down the memory lane with memories not just related to school coming back in waves of nostalgia. The number of recountable memories is too large and I cannot accommodate them in a single post without being responsible for loads of sore fingers because of too much scrolling. I’ll be adding the memories one by one in a chronological order at the end of each post in a section called Afterthought - Delving into my pensive.
Afterthought:The earliest images of this life that come to me after a lot of straining of the temporal lobes are those of playing on the Commodore 64. I remember that once every week my brother and I were allowed to hook it to the old B/W TV and play on.
I remember looking down into the huge trunk which contained the floppy disks(8 1/2 inches) of over a 100 games, like a child looking upon a bunch of Christmas presents. My personal favorite was a game called Donald Duck’s playground, a lovable little game by Sierra which to the date remains one of the few games I enjoyed playing.
Then there were others like Impossible Mission, Olympics, Adventure text games and a hundred more which I can’t even begin to recall.
We had to throw the disks away 3 or 4 years ago ‘cos not even a Kabadiwallah would take them and my mom was going ballistic about the space the whole lot of them occupied in the attic. The C64 (Along with a C128) however remains enshrined in our home along with other antic computer hardware like XT motherboards, 10 MB HDDs and 640 K RAMs Bluegenemaid.
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7 Responses to “Can’t-think-of-a-title Post…”
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Says:
September 17th, 2007 at 5:53 amThis one has me stumped. Who is it…Monica Belluci (although I’ve never seen a pic of her from this angle)…or is it even Hollywood (I guess it is…)
C64! Whoa!…..
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September 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pmYeah it is Hollywood(Who in India would give an artist a backless pose anyway…;-)) but it doesn’t look much like the real person so I don’t expect anybody to be able to guess it.
As for the C64 and C128, they are both in good working conditions but the disk drives are no longer there so there is no way you can save or transfer any of the work you do in there.Unless of course you can hook it up to your computer somehow through the RS 232 port.. -
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September 17th, 2007 at 2:06 pmBoy, I’m still going “Wha…wha…what….” over the C64 & C128. Do you er…stay in some…museum?
As for the pic, it really IS a toughie. I can’t think of anyone else with bee-stung lips AND who matches the pic here. Come to think of it, Monica Belluci doesn’t have lips like those. I give up. Who is she?
PS - Have you seen ‘Shattered Glass’? Amazing movie…seen it quite few times already; just came to my mind cuz I saw it again a few days ago…
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September 17th, 2007 at 2:50 pmAh the beestung lips..this is where I went wrong.Cause Penelope Cruz doesen’t have them
I don’t blame you for not recognising her.
No I haven’t seen Shattered Glass but you bet I will.Looked it up on IMDB.Its tough to resist a good movie or Hayden Chritensen.But when they come in a combo its nigh impossible to do so ;-). -
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September 17th, 2007 at 3:44 pmComputers have been around my place even before I was born so I have actually grown up with C64,XT,386,486,P1,K6,P3,P4 and Core2Duo in that order.They are family heirlooms.
Maybe I’ll sell you all this for a price over a million after Google(Or Yahoo!) buys Vozue and you become a collector of rare computer artefacts
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September 18th, 2007 at 3:39 pmAh, Penelope… Anyway, I’m not a member of Vozue, so it won’t really be me doing any buying or selling…but you REALLY seem to have started off on a big with with tech, eh…
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September 20th, 2007 at 10:34 amAh…that was just my good luck.
