On Wednesday, I finally lost the last remnant of my rear right lower bicuspid. In a few months, if all goes well, a fake tooth will replace it.

( Squicky dental details! )

John Scalzi wants to make sure you're registered to vote. In reference to Massachusetts specifically, it's worth repeating something I said in the comments there ( Read more... )

My visit to Pinball Wizard Arcade in Pelham, with pictures. This is a great place and I encourage any pinball freak with occasion to visit New England to go there. One of the happiest things was that I finally got to play a real Firepower, one of my favorite games from Pinball Hall of Fame on the Wii. The real one's tougher.

Having gotten the cash to license Twilight Zone for their pinball-emulation game The Pinball Arcade, Farsight has almost fully funded their second Kickstarter to fund the license for Star Trek: The Next GenerationIt's gone a little slower than the first one, I think in part because it's held in slightly less reverence by pinball fans (though it's ( Read more... )

Say, this is pretty nice; I saw it via Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit, but I am sure it is equally effective if you have no plans to vote for Barack Obama:

https://gottaregister.com/

In Massachusetts, the deadline for registering in the general election is October 17.

Update: Here's a ( Read more... )

As a birthday present Sam gave me a gift card for tokens at Funspot. We went up yesterday, and had to fight terrible summer weekend traffic, but we had a great time once we got there.

Funspot near Weirs Beach in Laconia, NH bills itself as "the largest arcade in the world". I don't know if this is true or not, but if you like classic videogames ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, this long-dormant roller coaster finally came down ( Read more... )

Found in the course of a discussion on james_nicoll's LJ concerning The Red Balloon, which was definitely another one ( Read more... )

Jorie is staying with Diane and Noreen tonight, so Sam and I went down here to Lake Compounce for a day of riding big rides and such.

I'd been curious about Boulder Dash, Compounce's enormous wooden coaster from 2000 that hurtles through the woods along the mountainside. The first half of the ride is almost entirely hidden from view by the trees ( Read more... )

I'm still enjoying The Pinball Arcade, but I've switched to getting the Android version and playing that most of the time, mostly because the downloadable content for XBox 360 has been so horribly delayed: they're now saying the first three DLC packs, each containing one new table and one rerun from Pinball Hall of Fame, are going to come out "by ( Read more... )