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Pin Eight is the personal web site of Damian Yerrick. You may be interested in one or more of his projects:

DX: RAC
(DS)
LOCKJAW
(PC, GBA, DS)
Luminesweeper
(GBA)
TOD
(GBA)
Tetramino
(NES)

Audi famam illius

Posted on April 15, 2008

The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Another Ugly Deutsche Invention.

The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Accelerates Under Demonic Influence.

The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Always Unsafe Designs Implemented.

The 2008 Audi Famam Illius, Always Under Diagnostic Inspection.

I'm running up against a ridiculous boss in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Why would Nintendo give a one-hit full-screen kill move to a fighting game character? Is it to make some sort of faux time limit, such that you have to drain the opponent's health before the opponent takes all your lives away with one hit each?

Why are we pink?

Posted on April 1, 2008

The pink color scheme you see here is not an April Fools Day joke. It's a protest against T-Mobile, which claims the exclusive right to use the color magenta.

Turn $25 into $2,500

Posted on February 15, 2008

Yes, it is still possible to start your life over from next to nothing in America.

LOCKJAW XLII

Posted on February 3, 2008

Tonight, you might want to skip Super Bowl XLII in protest. The NFL is trying to prohibit faith-based community centers to show the game just because they don't serve liquor. You know the Pats are probably going to win anyway.

But if think your life will have no meaning without Big Game 42, you can contemplate the number XLII. Once you're done, look at the LOCKJAW page for another Big Game 42 that you can download and play.

Super Tuesday

Posted on January 31, 2008

In a large chunk of the United States, the Republican primary election is this Tuesday. If you live in one of the states that will be voting on Super Tuesday, take a hard look at the situation.

Spending by the U.S. government has grown out of control. One out of seven Americans has no health insurance, not because of too little federal regulation, but because of too much. The U.S. dollar is in the toilet, and this acts as a hidden tax on Americans. So does the constant borrowing from countries without freedom of speech, just to finance a war in Iraq. And the government has been doing an end-run around the Fourth Amendment's protection of privacy.

It's time for a change. In fact, it's time for a rƎVO⌋ution.

Tetris Tetris Revolution?

Posted on January 13, 2008

No, Tetris isn't coming to Wii. But I can play LOCKJAW on a dance pad.

Watch video on YouTube (requires SWF and FLV support)

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2008

My cousins got new DS games over the past month: Drawn to Life and March of the Minis. I've updated RAC to name the games' save files distinctly.

Serious Business

Posted on November 24, 2007

After a month of prodding and deletion of non-notable albums by non-notable bands on a non-notable label, Wikipedia is once again Serious Business.

Oh, and I updated the site's policies today, including the privacy policy.

Colors!

Posted on October 17, 2007

I've discovered a paint program called Colors! for the DS. I managed to draw this:

[Colors drawing]

You can even play back the sequence of brush strokes on the picture's page on Colors! Gallery.

memtestARM

Posted on September 8, 2007

New DS homebrew release: memtestARM

Updates

Posted on August 4, 2007

I've updated several of my mini-essays in RAnT to match the state of the world in 2007. It and the GBA, NES, PC sections have also been migrated to the new layout.

New system

Posted on July 28, 2007

The site is changing to a newer, cleaner look and feel. It has these benefits for readers:

It also eases updates:

  • Shorter boilerplate per page: increased maintainability over the previous SSI-emulation scheme
  • Upgrade to newer PHP: no need to work around 4.0.x deficiencies

The transition will happen page by page. Pages that have not updated will still use the old look and feel.

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