Rogue_F - Slashdot User

Comment Other Pinball Events (Score 1) 110

by Rogue_F on Monday August 16, 2010 @05:26PM (#33269180) Attached to: Keith Elwin Wins Pinball World Championship

Being an avid pinball player I was pleased to see this make it onto /. I thought I would post some other great pinball events in California.

Already occured (but will happen again next year)
Pin A Go Go http://www.pinagogo.com/ May 14-16 Dixon California
California Extreme http://www.caextreme.org/ July 17-18 2010 Santa Clara California

Upcoming
Pacific Pinball Expo http://www.pacificpinball.org/ Oct 1-3 2010

All of them are great shows and we're lucky here in northern California to have 3 great pinball conventions.

Also anyone else interested in pinball in the northern California area there is the Bay Area Pinball Association (BAPA) http://www.bayareapinball.org/
There are a number of players in our league who compete in our local tournaments, as well as the various California Tournaments, and even national and international tournaments. In fact the #2 player at PAPA A division was from our league (Andrei).

Pinballers are a dying breed. Play while you can...join a league...have fun.

-Alex

Keith Elwin Wins Pinball World Championship 110

Posted by timothy on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:05AM from the flip-of-the-flipper-to-ye dept.

Yesterday, writes reader woohoodonuts, "Keith Elwin won the world pinball championship in Pittsburgh, PA for the third consecutive year. The weekend-long event fielded 406 players from all over the world and distributed over $36,000 in prizes. The three games chosen in the final round were Stern Cheetah, Bally The Addams Family, and Bally Creature from the Black Lagoon. Keith scored over 500 million points on his final ball with $10,000 on the line to defeat fellow American, Andrei Massenkoff, by nearly 300 million points." Next year's gathering is slated for August 11-14, also in Pittsburgh.

Comment Other Cube Houses (Score 1) 429

by Rogue_F on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @03:05PM (#7797129) Attached to: Cube House

Ipsilon was the company that eventually was aquired and is now the foundation for the Nokia/Checkpoint OS (which I think is a FreeBSD variant).

I was visiting in about 1997 looking at their fast flow setup switch (I dont recall the product name at this point). Esentially it was a PC gateway hooked up to an ATM switch. The PC handled the flow setup, and then programmed the switch. I'm sure someone else can correct my recollection if necessary.

While I was there, one guy had walls and a roof structure built of wood around his cube. Apparently they had to install a sprinkler in the top of the roof on the inside to meet fire safety codes. The structure itself was a pretty solid design.

SiteSmith was a managed services company that was aquired by MFN to be their Managed Services arm.

When I was at SiteSmith around 2000 we had one guy who put a roof on his cube as well but I believe HR or Facilities made him take it down. I think this one was more decorated, but not for Xmas.

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