My girlfriend and I faced discrimination and harassment from both students and faculty. Unfortunately, my high school is rather conservative, and being the first openly gay couple wasn’t very easy. My girlfriend and I decided that while we wouldn’t shout from the rooftops, we also wouldn’t hide that we were dating. Coming out to my friends was one thing coming out to the rest of my high school was another. My honesty really strengthened our friendships, and their support became an invaluable resource for me for years to come. They all became completely comfortable with it in their eyes it was just part of who I was. Regardless of their initial reaction, all my friends eventually accepted me. I told my friends individually, and their responses varied from confused to unsurprised. I came out to three distinct groups: my friends, my school and lastly, my family.
However, my strong feelings on the subject didn’t exactly prepare me for how difficult stepping out of “the closet” into the big, bright world would be or how deeply it would affect me and those around me. I also wasn’t comfortable with lying about who I was or who I loved. I totally rejected the idea that I should hide how I felt, as if it was wrong or horrible. To me, coming out was all about being true to myself. I came out at 16, shortly after I discovered I was gay.
Posted in classic hacks, Video Hacks Tagged atari, camcorder, crt, handicam, video game The picture above shows the tiny CRT next to a 25mm postage stamp it’s small by any measure. The result is a video game that’s even smaller than a postage stamp.
These modules had the right connections – power, ground, and composite video input – to connect directly to the Atari keychain games. apparently ran into a cache of these cool classic baubles and immediately thought of turning them into a stand-alone video game system.įor the display, used a CRT module from an old Sony Handicam. We’ll happily dismiss any article from a medical journal that says there was any truth to that statement, but ’s tiny video game system will most certainly hurt your eyes.Ī few years ago, Atari sold keychain-sized joysticks that contained classics such as Pong, Breakout, Centipede, and Asteroids. As we read ’s writeup for an extremely tiny video game system through coke bottle glasses, we’re reminded of the countless times we were told that sitting, ‘too close to the Nintendo’ would ruin our eyes.