Monday, May 26, 2008

Qbert lives in Baltimore?


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Jack Roarrok has learned me a few very important things over the years. 1) BBB makes a wonderful camping libation, 2) the best way to get a garlic out of his husk is to manhandle it, and, as you can see in the google maps above, 3) Qbert apparently lives in the bay of Baltimore. The last one is perhaps one of the more amazing things that I have seen on google maps. It somewhat frightens me, and its made me be on the lookout for that crazy bouncy snake thing, coily. In case everyone (Rachel falls in this group) didn't grow up an indoor kid envious of the neighbors who owned a CalecoVision, Qbert was an extremely basic video game in the 1980's.



Curiously, on the wikipedia page somewhere they mention that he has "expressive eyes". All I see are the the crosseyes of a spaceball.

Also, click here for some retro- qbert enjoyment.

3 comments:

JB said...

I think there is something about this in the book of revelations...
"And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Qbert; and Hell followed with him."

Roxanne said...

I was one of the jealous ones....rx

Rachel said...

In my defense, I didn't even have neighbors...I'm sure I would have been properly jealous if I'd had Qbert-empowered neighbors!