404 the dude abides

Welcome to my 404 page!


the young dude with the VIC-20You stumbled upon this page somehow, someway - so I wanted to make it entertaining for you in 3 easy steps.

STEP 1

First, my Top Ten reason you arrived at this page:

  1. You like the Rockford Lightning, even though there last season was 2006.
  2. You like the Rockford Lightning, but you love the mascot Freddy Flash.
  3. You need car insurance and live in Texas.
  4. You have bad skin and are looking for a dermatologist.
  5. You have bad eyes and are looking for eyecare.
  6. You are wondering what the average cost of boat insurance is.
  7. You need to buy some flowers, probably for wife because it's Mother's Day.
  8. You were searching Google Images for a photo of Freddie Flash.
  9. You were looking for Jeff Huber - whoever he is.
  10. You like searching for unusual 404 pages.

I bet you're wondering how I knew you fit into the Top Ten list, it doesn't matter and I don't have time to explain. If you really want to know, then contact me and we can talk about the magic of the Internet in more detail.

STEP 2

"The dude abides." and the photo:

"The dude abides." is a line from the movie The Big Lebowski, one of my favorite movies and should be one of yours. If you know the movie I don't need to tell you anything other than, "Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man." and if you haven't seen the movie - rent it, buy it, download it and enjoy.

The kid in the photo, of course is me back in 1980 with my first computer - the Commodore VIC-20. I remember going to Montgomery Wards with my Mom and buying the computer, the datasette and a couple game cartridges. My set-up as you can see in the photo is the computer, a Commodore Datasette (tape recorder) and a B/W television on an old card table. I was addicted to this computer and would spend every waking hour writing programs in BASIC. I'm still doing the samething now - 29 years later, using a little more computing power and different programming language, but that was the beginning of my life and career with computers.

What does The Big Lebowski and a photo of me when I was 10 years old have in common? Nothing.

STEP 3

Where to go from here?

Top Ten list of what you could do next:

  1. You could hit the 'back' button and continue with your surfing.