response 1 of 30:

Oct 7 21:45 UTC 2003

I am making available a somewhat silly "ghosts" presentation that came my way.
The primary form I'm making available is a PDF file, which somewhat diminishes
the "slickness" of the original PowerPoint slide show, but the point gets
across:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/ghosts.pdf

Those of you who want to see the original, who have PowerPoint available, you
can extract the pps file from this zip file:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/ghosts.zip

response 3 of 30:

Oct 8 01:27 UTC 2003

That was cool. :)

response 5 of 30:

Oct 8 03:56 UTC 2003

Yeah, it was.

response 7 of 30:

Oct 10 18:21 UTC 2003

When I registered the name "Political Graveyard", someone in mailing list
land assumed I was a Halloween-products retailer.  And so for a while, I
was on the mailing list for a free Halloween trade journal.

One of the things I remember from that magazine was all the crowing they
did about Halloween improving its ranking.  Apparently there is a ranking
of holidays according to how much money is spent observing them.  Of
course Christmas is first.  I think Halloween had just risen from fourth
to third, or something like that.

response 9 of 30:

Oct 11 01:46 UTC 2003

Yeah, I thought Halloween was second behind Christmas.

response 11 of 30:

Oct 11 04:38 UTC 2003

<at least sweetest day ...>

response 13 of 30:

Oct 11 14:00 UTC 2003

Halloween vs. Valentines Day, probably Halloween wins up front from all the
home decorating and kid's parties.  Then you get into less obvious spending,
like kid's dentist bills vs. obsetrician bills in November...

response 15 of 30:

Oct 11 17:59 UTC 2003

That's the trippiest pdf I've seen in a while.

response 17 of 30:

Oct 13 01:51 UTC 2003

One is for making money, and the other is for making money.

response 19 of 30:

Oct 24 01:01 UTC 2003

In honor of the ever more approaching Halloween, I am making available
something else you can download, something my sister let me know about, 
four years ago.  It calls itself a "Shockwave movie", but I consider it
an "amusement".  If you are interested, download the 2.5M zip file;
it contains a small html file, which expects its accompanying ".dcr" file
to be in the same directory.  You need a graphical web browser; I know it
runs OK in IE 5.5, but I don't have Netscape at home to know about it.
Who knows, it might even work fine on a Mac.  :-)  Lastly, you really need
a sound system to make the whole experience worthwhile.

What is this?  It's a mostly static image of a haunted house sitting in a
spooky yard eerily lit by a full moon at night.  The amusement is to click
on various objects in the image, and watch and listen to what happens in
response.  Here is a small .gif rendention of the image:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/hhouse.gif

This is not a virus!  But I can't prove it to you, and I guess you shouldn't
trust me, so feel free to run it by your virus scanner.  (I don't know what
it would think about a .dcr file...)  Feel free to give feedback; but if you
have problems with it, I really can't help you.

So, here at last:

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/hhouse.zip

Happy Halloween!  :-)

response 21 of 30:

Oct 24 01:25 UTC 2003

And now my last Halloween season download offering:  A VGA quality "DOS" game
circa 1992 called "Catacomb Abyss".  You start out above ground in a cemetary,
go looking for the keys that will unlock the doors to descend to lower levels,
and along the way encounter various spooks and monsters to evade or thwart.

http://www.geocities.com/klalbaugh/images/catacomb.zip

response 23 of 30:

Oct 27 18:21 UTC 2003

If you mean to either the Shockwave amusement or the DOS game, the answer is
"no".  Contact the originators if truly interested.