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Cyberphreak Enterprises LLC

In case you landed here looking for the Atari 5200 True Analog or IntelliVision True 16 controllers, they are on my commerce website, https://retrogame.cyberphreak.com/shop/

Last year, I finalized my Atari 5200 controller, which uses all analog components with proportional analog controls, so you can play your 5200 without hand cramps.

This year, I released the True 16 direction IntelliVision, which has taken off just as well. With all the controllers, I created an LLC last year, so Cyberphreak Enterprises LLC is a real thing in the State of Illinois!

 

Posted by on July 15, 2025 in Retro Gaming

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2026 Update, ugh

Well, shucks, not again.

A few days ago, I was laid off from my day job. I am not going to go into who it was, but it was very disappointing.

My previous employer was heavily invested in the automotive tools industry. In this case, they made a massive investment in the electric vehicle market. Turns out it was a bad investment and myself and 18 other engineers, managers, buyers, and support personnel paid the price.

As you may of guessed, it was a perfect storm under this administrations to: levy very large tariffs on American manufacturers. Guess what? The importer pays the taxes/tariffs on imported goods. American manufacturers have taken a horrible pounding since April 2025.

The other shoe was ending the electric vehicle incentives. This caused a huge drop in demand for the vehicles and the tools needed.

I have been laid of once before, this time was different. No apologies, no thanks for your years of work. Just pack your desk up in 3 minutes and get out. My work account was closed before my butt hit the seat of my car. At least the severance was decent, but personally the coldness of this separation was just shocking.

Well, at least I have my fun little side job, which I will have some more time to enjoy that for at least a few weeks. Who I feel really bad about are some great engineers here on a H1B visa. They need a new job in 60 days or they have to return to their home country. These engineers have mortgages, one was on maternity leave. Just so callous. An engineer with decades experience with the company was laid off. All that experience…gone. I understand why the decision was made, millions of dollars spent for little or no return on investment, but it still hurt.

I hope they do continue, but with the loss of knowledge, and what are certainly some angry customers, who knows? My guess is when the owner gets tired or passes a larger corporation will buy the company and patents and keep the name going on and hopefully keep some of the talent on board.

For now, I am looking for a new job and taking stock of how to move forward. I am 51 and really need something stable so I can finish saving for retirement and retire while I still have all my marbles and health.

 

Posted by on January 19, 2026 in General Comments, Work

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The Math ain’t mathing.

Did a little math here, to get a 90,000 square foot ballroom, you need a structure 250×360′. Turns out the Treasury building across the street is 250′ wide and a little long. A little google maps measurement and GIMP magic, and we get…this:

Umm, that’s freaking huge. I tried to keep the frontage aligned with the remaining west wing. The renderings I have seen look like a pretty normal 25,000 square foot building, not the something the size to TWO American football fields, with the end zones.

Something just does not add up, unless they plan on making this 3 or 4 floors…no idea how this is supposed to work.

 

Posted by on December 17, 2025 in Uncategorized

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Let them eat cake

Well, America, here we are again. It has been nine months now since the village idiot/dictator came back into power. For those reading this in the future, it is November 8, 2025, and he is even worse than the history books` portray.

We are not in the longest shutdown in US government history, now into day 38. As much as they want to blame the Democrats, we all know who is to blame. The idiot, non-deal maker “deal maker” who is starving children for the sake cruelty. The house has not been in session in over 45 days, all to prevent the release of the Epstein files. We are not fools, the whole government is shut down to protect the felon in chief.

This week they wend before the supreme court to argue a president can magically raise taxes, aka tariffs on the American people. This is explicitly a power of congress. If the executive branch can raise taxes, what is the point of congress? I hope the supreme court has some sense of sanity and ends these moronic tariffs. We also need a working government again, such as it is.

This is feeling a whole lot like the French revolution, while children are cut off from food assistance, medical insurance will double or triple, or more, the ruling King wants a grand, gilded ballroom paid for by…who the hell knows? While the government is shutdown, we see a party with the King with showgirls and opulence, a Great Gatsby party. I swear, have any of these people ever read a book?

 

Posted by on November 8, 2025 in Uncategorized

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Believe Them

Here we are, just eight days into Trump’s second term (gag) and he is running down the Project 2025 playbook. If it’s in Project 2025, it will surface in next few weeks. All of the campaign lies are already forgotten, like reducing grocery prices, removing government waste, all gone.

All we have is the endless tariff threats, mass deportations, trying to eliminate birthright citizenship, politicizing the whole civil servant system, needed programs, like food stamps…gone. Trans people are no longer humans. They are not even like slaves, they are not even 3/5 of a person. He lied, all he cares about is racism, classism, establishing a oligarchy and signing any piece of paper placed in front of him from the evil people who wrote Project 2025, aka Trump’s outsourced Mein Kampf.

Looking back at history, I have no idea why people were surprised just how bad Nazi Germany got. He wrote it all down. The book was passed out to every single student. He outlined all the atrocities Hitler and Nazi regime were going to do. Same thing with Project 2025. The only real difference is that Hitler wrote his own manifesto, Trump is an illiterate fool that could never create such a detailed document. I am sure in decades we will look back at authors of Project 2025 like we look at Himmler, Goebles, and more. This country deserves all suffering we will face. We are racist, trans phobic, bigots who voted for a monster who is lawless. Enjoy America!

 

Posted by on January 28, 2025 in Uncategorized

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