I took the time to draft this in either July or Septemer of 2024 - Here tis..

 "..we only have to connect one part in 10,000 of the sunlight that falls on the Earth to meet all of our energy needs.
It's plenty of headroom and that's growing exponentially and will achieve that within ten years"

-Ray Kurzweil
(10 Days ago doing a talk: The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next)

On UFC quick thoughts - Ultimate Fighting Championship

 As a person that enjoyed professional wrestling WWF, WCW/nWo and ECW during the 90's and early 00's (as well as still keeping an ear and eye on the scene) I became aware of "the real thing". As a teen and younger adult however real life combat violence wasn't entertaining to me.

In 2008 I played the demo of the UFC game on XBOX 360 and loved it. It was like the Wrestling games I loved mixed with the Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat/KI/Tekken/etc that I loved to play. I went out and bought a console and that game because of how much I enjoyed playing it...and I got good at it if I do say so myself...I haven't changed much as this year I bought a modern X series console along with the current offering #5.

As for "the real real thing" I grew to love of hate the fighters that were in the game. I caught McGregor fever earlier on, I loved the Diaz hype and I knew the focused guy whoms name I can't spell without looking up would defeat him. 

Austin Bashi is the man I am watching now.

I hope this site displays correctly across all devices

 Back when this page started smart phones were really in their infancy and web browsing was more done on computers. This is an old school computer page I have to remember is more than likely to be viewed on a handheld device with mobile OS.

I may investigate this further but I have never been reported any issues.

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Video Library NES Rentals and Knowing People - Game Hustles of the Past

Back in the early 90's the local video library chain i.e Video Ezy rented out NES titles for $5AUD for 3 Days. New-Releases or SNES titles may have attracted a  higher premium but I don't recall because back then it was all about the NES! 

The titles I clearly remember are Top Gun (our first rental and we couldn't get the landing..), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles + TMNT II The Arcade Game (<3), Batman, Double Dragon II, Super Mario Bros 2 + 3, The Legend of Zelda, Operation Wolf, Captain Skyhawk, Golf, Hyper Soccer (an regional exclusive title), The Flintstones (Rescue of Dino + Hoppy ;) ) and North & South to name a few. I feel I'll discuss some of these gems again in more detail later on.

One particular time a neighbour of ours asked that we return a game for them because they were unable to and it still had a days credit on it allowing us to enjoy it before it was expected to be back.. This game was Air Fortress and we bought it as an ex-rental years later. It is a great NES title and to think it is unlikely that we would have ever had played this game (at least on original hardware) if not for these circumstances. This same individual sold his copy of Kung Fu to us - One of my all time favourite games, period.

Speaking of other people with the same Nintendo NES console back when it was becoming an aged system...what a great pool of people to have established game libraries including titles that they would have stopped playing awhile ago. These types of generous individuals loaned us games on a number of occasions and trust me for someone otherwise limited to a handful for repetitive games, I was VERY GRATEFUL!

Where to start? These games were from all kinds of people and the variety was very much welcomed. I can recall Double Dribble, Double Dragon 3, Ninja Gaiden, Total Recall, 'Probotector' , Faxanadu and some suspicious 'piggyback' multicarts.

What a Mr Beast Feastable from Woolworths Australia looks like inside the packet

Would you like to know what a Mr Beast Feastable from a Woolworths supermarket in Australia looks like inside of the packet?

Here, you're welcome. Copyright, me.

Noggin of the Screaming Electron (Notse/Totse) is up and running

Well it's a new blog and it's called Noggin of the Screaming Electron or NOTSE for short. Notse totse for formal occasions and for web address purposes...as well as a tip of the fedora to a notable text file repository of days gone by /RIP &T

What is it all about? Think of it as this place *1.01 or better yet visit: https://notsetotse.blogspot.com and enjoy the place for yourself.

 Hopefully it will be propped up with some ads so if you see one and it's relevant to your wants, needs, or interests don't be shy and open them. 

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Further notice from historical site haitus announcement

 Well, G'Day, G'Day - it has been some time between regular posts to this blog due to, let's say..a glitch which is of no one parties fault in particular, and I would like to add that if the time for moving forward together has been reached I am welcoming of this revelation and am keen to get back into things here.

P.S I host ads. Or at least I used to, or tried to...it was never any secret and the revenue that is generated by sharing my original content was used for good purposes such as supporting finance for solar, preserving books/historic items, and whims for projects for things such as this very site. And I was very grateful for every cent of it.

If you've landed here or any other random page of mine, for whatever reason (I used to really get some views just based on current topical items) thanks for spending your time here and I hope it was worth the visit/support.

As for the future, where ad dollarydoos are forthcoming - I expect to perhaps modify the format of the place. Though not too radically, just radically enough..and maybe. Much has happened since establishing view*know*do in March 2011

Ciao f.n

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