Category Archives: Fun Stuff

What’s for dinner?

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The young couple invited their elderly pastor for Sunday dinner. While they were in the kitchen preparing the meal, the minister asked their son what they were having.

“Goat,” the little boy replied.

“Goat?” replied the startled man of the cloth. “Are you sure about that?”

“Yep,” said the youngster. “I heard Dad say to Mom, ‘Today is just as good as any to have the old goat for dinner.'”

How many of me?

I know, I’m unique… there is only one of me. But does anyone else share my name? HowManyOfMe.com apparently has a database of all of the names in the United States (using Census data). You put in your first name and last name and it tells you if anyone else has your name. According to the site, there are 18,309 Graham’s in the US and 16,143 Wing’s but there is only 1 Graham Wing (I presume that is me, since I filled out the form, even though I don’t live in the US). There are however 57 Lisa Wing’s (1,074,156 have the name Lisa).

Classic Nintendo (NES) games online

I’ve only ever owned one video game console system and that was the original Nintendo (NES) system. I didn’t have very many games, but I loved playing Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out. Several years ago I learned about emulators. I’m not sure exactly how this works, but essentially emulators are software that duplicates the game environment so it can be played in Windows.

I had forgotten about emulators until the other day when I was looking for a game online. I was expecting to find a Flash version of the game, but came across an emulator from NESCafe Web. As I looked into this further, there are loads of games now available online. They use Java to power them and they are exactly the same as the originals. Very cool!

To find a game, I’d suggest searching for the name of the game and NEScafe (for instance, searching for Tetris would require you to search for “tetris NEScafe” without the quotes).

If you are interested, here are the links I found to my favourite games: