- Breakout is a 1976 action video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades; in Japan, it was released by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player’s goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The concept was predated by Ramtek’s Clean Sweep (1974), but the game’s designers were influenced by Atari’s own Pong (1972). The arcade version of Breakout uses a monochrome display underneath a translucent colored overlay.
- Mount Si (summitpost.org)
With an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 visitors each year, Mount Si is arguably the most heavily climbed trail in the entire state of Washington. Mount Si is used by a wide variety of people- hikers, climbers, trad climbers, trail runners, people training to climb Rainier, and even mixed climbers in winter. It is not uncommon to see paragliders who have used Mount Si as a launching pad, either.