Author: sgolson

  • 2024

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    A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun the evening of October 8 — ten billion tons of plasma traveling at two million miles per hour. Arriving at Earth two days later, this CME generated a massive geomagnetic storm, causing bright and active aurora extending to far southern latitudes. Aurora Pillars Over Mount…

  • California Extreme 2024

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    Lawyers, Games and Money General Computer Goes to Court by Steve Golson Here’s the description from the California Extreme website: A look behind the scenes of the many legal disputes involving GCC, including: Atari’s 1981 lawsuit over Super Missile Attack, GCC’s enhancement kit for Missile Command licensing Crazy Otto to Midway, which led to Ms.…

  • 2023

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    Winter Sky November 18, 2018 Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Massachusetts Nikon D500, 10mm, 30 sec at f/3.5, ISO 6400 The font used for the card and envelope is Concourse by Matthew Butterick.

  • 2022

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    Four planets align at sunrise behind Nubble Lighthouse in Cape Neddick, Maine. Jupiter and bright Venus are just to the left of the lighthouse. In the center is Mars, with Saturn at upper right. The lighthouse is illuminated blue for Autism Awareness Month. Hold your mouse cursor over the image to reveal annotations. Nubble Light…

  • Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2022

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    The Mysteries Of Ms. Pac-Man Here’s the description from the PRGE website: Join some of the team who helped create Ms. Pac-Man in this panel discussion. Hear the weird and unusual tales of video game’s First Lady, Ms. Pac-Man, celebrating her 40th birthday! Wild stories about lawsuits with Atari, the Chicago connection, Crazy Otto, and…

  • 2021

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    A solar eclipse occurs when the moon casts its shadow upon the earth. During totality the sun’s corona becomes visible as a white halo around the black disk of the moon. A wide-angle lens allows the camera to capture the grassy foreground, sunset colors on the horizon, and the eclipsed sun overhead. Wyoming Eclipse /…

  • Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon

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    Tim Lapetino’s Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon is the definitive history of Pac-Man and the entire Pac-family. A beautiful book. Highly recommended! Steve and other ex-GCC people were interviewed and shared artifacts for this book.

  • History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL IV) 2021

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    Verilog HDL and its ancestors and descendants by Peter Flake, Phil Moorby, Steve Golson, Arturo Salz, and Simon Davidmann. Presented at The Fourth ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Language Conference (HOPL IV), June 20–22, 2021. Presentation video available here. Published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 4, No. HOPL, Article 87, June…

  • Videogame Legends

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    Videogame Legends is a wonderful Italian documentary series, recounting the history and development of video games. Steve appears in Part 1 of Season 1. Beware, the automated translation from Italian to English is sometimes not quite accurate…

  • 2020

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    Stars use nuclear fusion to create light, which then travels for thousands of years to reach Earth. On the other hand, fireflies use chemical reactions to create their flashing lights, in hopes of attracting a nearby mate. Many different sources combine to brighten the meadow on a summer evening. Fireflies and Starlight Taken June 26,…