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Your home for retro games, digital ownership, self-hosted services, and whatever else survives the blast radius of modern internet decay.

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Essays on computers, ownership, retro games, and the strange spaces between them.

Games worth your quarters

Retro and modern games, reviewed with the attention they deserve. READY, PLAYER ONE!

Elsewhere

Self-hosted services, no rhyme or reason to the order. An asterisk marks a login credential requirement.

Book Loft *

"Words, words. They're all we have to go on." ~ Guildenstern

'Nuff said. *

"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise." ~ Rorschach

The Cookbook

"People who love to eat are always the best people." ~ Julia Child

IT Tools

"I came here to drink milk and kick ass... and I've just finished my milk." ~ Maurice Moss

PDF Tools *

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About

This site exists because the old web had texture. It had weird corners, questionable color palettes, personal obsessions, guestbooks, MIDI files, and pages built by people instead of engagement committees.

Here you'll find long, rambling essays on computers, digital ownership, and retro games — plus reviews of the titles that stuck with me.

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