By popular request (a whole four people!), here's another X-E audio conversion, this time for the Polly-O String Cheese article. It translated like crap and comes off sounding like a mother reading her 2nd grade son's book report, but hey, it's Tuesday morning and you've got nothing better to do.
New article coming today/tonight -- an old NES game review. I've mentioned it in passing in a post years back, but never really gave it the credit or attention it probably deserves. Not a popular game by any stretch, but if you feel like guessing, I'll give you a one-word hint: "strobes." Vaguest hint in the history of hints. I'm trying to get into Guinness.
In other news, I read that one of the Coney Island Aquarium's famous beluga whales just kicked the bucket. Pretty sad -- those whales have been there for decades, so if you've visited the place even over fifteen years ago, chances are high that you stood and gawked at the thing. Here's my review of the aquarium, from...wow, July 2002.
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….then the short guy shoved the box in my hands, "Count ten after I turn the corner, and open the box." Reaching down, he pulled a knob on his shoe and wheels clicked out of the bottom and he skated away on one foot. "Does Gumby know you swiped his gimmick?" I shouted after him. Being small, he disappeared into the crowd quickly, so I fudged my numbers and opened the box. I was confronted by eight large odd-looking jelly doughnuts and was about to reach for one when all eight unfolded their wings. Frosting covered pigeons! The flock orbited around my head for a few turns, then raced out over the crowd, zeroing in on a target. I heard a high-pitched scream, "You were supposed to count ten!" I tossed a rude gesture I learned from watching BBC sitcoms in his general direction, "That’s what you get from Cracker Jacks! I ain’t got time for this." And off I went for my appointment with Destiny and a hot cup of coffee…..