When my dad returned from the Korean War, he used the GI Bill to attend university, first studying Geology and then switching to Law. As a “Going to University Present,” my grandparents bought him a complete set of the 1954 Encyclopædia Britannica1. It was a bookshelf-worth of books (in fact, it came with a bookshelf, … Read more
This is Part One, for the setup for this story, see The Prologue. You’ll find it here. When the day started, the new wheel only had about 75 km on it. What are the odds I’d have a problem? (Spoiler: It turns out about 1:1.) Why? Phoenix is a weird metropolitan area. At first blush, … Read more
Thursday the 18th of April, 2024 was an adventure day – and not in a good way. The blame for the adventure is mine; however, before I tell that story, context is needed to understand why this has been so enormously frustrating for me. It comes solidly on the back of me being angry and … Read more
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 Further, I will not make it easy for others to cling to outdated measurement systems.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
My “adventure” ordering pizza last night and living life like a caveman.