The Metric Pledge
I pledge to use and internalize the Metric System in my own life wherever possible, so long as it does not impact safety. Further, I will not make it easy for others to cling to outdated measurement systems.
I pledge to use and internalize the Metric System in my own life wherever possible, so long as it does not impact safety. Further, I will not make it easy for others to cling to outdated measurement systems.
Let’s try to put this all together in one last post, shall we? Killer Sudoku Aide is basically ready to go. The functional code has been locked down for weeks, but there have been weeks of tweaking the interface’s look, updating things to improve the accessibility, and getting ducks in a row to get it … Read more
Like a lot of nerds, I’ve been coding since I was a kid – 14 years old, in my case. Unlike a lot of them, I’m much older. Teenage coders were few and far between in 1979. When the TRS-80 was announced/came out in 1978, I was 13 years old. And I begged my dad … Read more
Public Access TV made way for YouTube. Public Access TV was a stipulation in the contracts with cable TV companies when they were granted city-sanctioned utility monopolies in many US cities. The idea, briefly, was that TV is a powerful medium controlled exclusively by big corporations and that community members should also have access to … Read more
That last post may have seemed very random. Well, life is like that. It’s not neatly wrapped up in a simplistic series of causes and effects. However, my mind requires that life is like that, so when I gather my thoughts to tell a story, the pieces must be there no matter how spurious they … Read more
Imagine this: You still use an RSS reader. Maybe it’s been set up for a decade or more, and today, in some small, disused corner, there is this post, from Lone Locust Productions. I’m not kidding myself. The chances there are more than 5 people on the entire planet are slim, and those people have … Read more
What’s this? A blog post? After all this time? It is indeed. For want of a better word, I have retired. My former employer, the State of Arizona had (before they ruined it for newer employees) a fairly liberal retirement annuity program. To be fully vested for retirement you simply needed a combination of 80 … Read more
On June 26, 2016 at about 11 PM I was working in my dining room and I heard what could only be described as an explosion. It came from my office and upon checking it, I discovered an automobile sticking into my home. Outside the car sat with two people in it: a driver and … Read more
Friends and long-time acquaintances will know that I’ve clocked up more hours camping than most can hope to in a lifetime, and I’ve done so in most every conceivable configuration: From sleeping with nothing but a sleeping bag under the stars or even a primitive lean-to to staying in a self-contained truck camper with everything … Read more