otrops: jeff van campen’s personal blog

Years ago, friends started asking me if I’d taken up watercolors. I was completely confused at first, but then it was explained to me that if you searched for my name online, most of the top results included websites with paintings seemingly attributed to me. Not surprisingly, these weren’t my work.
They were the [...]

It all started with the Sanford and Son post over on Aquarium Drunkard. Joanne and I were grooving to the smooth sounds of Quincy Jones, but we craved more. No, not more Quincy Jones. That would would have been the sensible option. No, dear reader, we wanted more cheesy television theme [...]

Or how to waste a Sunday evening and most of the rest of the week.
Perhaps I was feeling a bit nostalgic or maybe it was just they typically boring Sunday night television. In any case, I decided I’d like to play Maniac Mansion. I remember spending hours in front of our Apple IIe [...]

Mike recently took a nerd test. And like any good internet bandwagoneer, I did the same. I’ve taken previous version and was declared to be a Supreme Nerd, or something along those lines. The new test is different: it provides a breakdown of five key nerd areas. Here’s mine:

No big [...]

Those of you who are addicted to facebook will already know this from my status and wall posts, but I thought I’d announce this to the rest of the world (or at least the very small part of it that follows my blog): After a month and a half of phone calls, interviews and [...]