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What a pile of shit this movie is, so of course I’ve watched it more than any other Karate Kid movie.

I cleared the first loop of the game, which means I beat stages 1-6 + stage 0 on one credit.

We took our time getting holiday cards out in 2021, so now it’s a Happy 2022 card!

Neko lets you spin up a server where you and friends can watch videos together.

Biking updates used to be frequent and celebratory of new milestones reached.

Recently I watched a bunch of Van Damme (henceforth VD) movies initiated by a co-worker letting me borrow their DVD of The Quest.

I posted about replacing the batteries on Capcom CPS2 boards in the past.

Back in 2013, I started a website called Northwest STG where I would post videos from shmup players in the Seattle area.

I use Route 53 for my DNS and have an A record that points to home for Wireguard access.

Someone I work with shared this with me and I’ve found it to be great at getting folks to think deeply about projects they’re proposing.

Fry’s Electronics has closed and is no more.

From the MiSTer wiki: MiSTer is an open project that aims to recreate various classic computers, game consoles and arcade machines, using modern hardware.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas and all that from Phil, Krista, and Ramona!

Instagram changed their API and made it harder to share my photos on my blog which is horseshit.

We rented a house on the Washington coast at Seabrook for a few days and spent some time on the beach and in the trees.

The COVID 2020 work from home life marches on and the weather here in Seattle has been nice, so I wanted to be able to work while sitting outside in our backyard.

I have been spending a little time here and there playing shmups and streaming on Twitch.

I’ve been watching a lot of action movies lately and I made this list of tips and cool things you could/should cross off your TODO list if you wanted to be a really awesome action movie star!

These silly motorcycle movies came out around the same time and tried to ride the wave of The Fast and the Furious, which BTW is an amazing movie franchise that I love (no joke).

New domain name: pdp.dev!

I recently discovered MermaidJS for drawing diagrams for work and found it to be really useful.

I read this article about serving up videos instead of GIFs to save on bandwidth costs so I wanted to give it a shot.

I really love Raspberry Pis and have quite a few lingering around our house doing various tasks.

I got a new MacBook Pro 16" laptop in mid-February, right before everything locked down for COVID.

I watched all the Death Wish movies that star Charles Bronson.

Biking has taken a hit because I just don’t really want to go outside.

When I’m working, I like listening to repetitive instrumental music to minimize distraction.

In February I biked 214 miles for a total of 523 miles in 2020 so far.

In January I biked 309 miles which is pretty great.

Happy New Year!

Dodonpachi is a classic bullet hell STG that I played a lot in MAME when I got back into STGs in like 2007 / 2008.

Ramona June Welch Piwonka was born on October 24th 2019 at 12:13pm.

In October 2019, I biked only 66 miles.

In September 2019, I biked 207.8 miles.

In August 2019, I biked 197 miles.

I made visual improvements to my arcade input display which can be found here on GitHub.

In July 2019 I biked 355 miles, a new monthly record!

New distance personal best!

When we were in Japan in late Sept/early Oct 2018, I went to the HEY!

My best score in this game and it’s a ONE CREDIT CLEAR!

This last weekend, after my long bike ride on Saturday, I took some time on Sunday and poked at my Final Fight arcade board to see if I could figure out its graphical issues.

I biked a lot in June and wrapped the month up with a ride around all of Lake Washington.

This past weekend I biked from my house to West Seattle, where I caught a ferry to Vashon Island and then did some biking there.

This month I set the goal of biking every day and I did it.

Today was the first Bicycle Sunday of the year here in Seattle and I took advantage by going for a ride with some coworkers.

In February 2019, I biked 16.3 miles.

In January 2019, I biked 155 miles.

It’s been snowing in Seattle which means a lot of sitting indoors, so this weekend I played some Muchi Muchi Pork and streamed it on Twitch.

I slacked pretty hard on biking after our Japan Trip, so very few miles added in Oct/Nov/Dec.

Batteries on arcade PCBs are a pain.