Monthly Archives: October 2011

Too Many Damn Cats

I moved the old cat blog to this site. I wanted to clean things up and free up the domain I was using for the blog. Also, the blog was on blogger.com and you can no longer publish to a private website using blogger. I am killing my blogger.com account. If  I ever feel like […]

Dennis Ritchie Died

You may not realize this, but more than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie created the modern computer environment. He invented the “C” language around 1970 and invented most of the original version of UNIX. Today, all operating systems are written in a dialect of “C” and UNIX is the operation system that is […]

The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge

I finished Children of the Sky on the bus this morning. I bought an advance reading copy on eBay so I was reading before it was officially released. This is the sequel to a Fire Upon the Deep, one of my favorite books. The original book had two parts. One deals with a desperate attempt […]

Another Hacker

iPhone stuff

I have an old iPhone that I don’t use. I also have an old iPad. I am watching the Apple announcements live blogging and I am finding stuff that I like. This is the new IOS 5 stuff. I will have IOS 5 on the iphone and ipad as soon as there is a jailbreak […]

Part Time

I was looking for a part time job that I could do from 6 to 9 every night plus weekends. I haven’t seen anything on TV that I can watch and I spend my time at night playing solitaire on my laptop. I though that a job fixing computers or teaching might make a few […]

Tour-ganic Rocks the Hay House

We became reacquainted with David Brown after the death of our old friend Marjorie Brown. David lives at a place called Hay House, a Buddhist retreat in Connecticut. Erica just sent me this poster about a rock concert that they are having there this Sunday. I would really like to go, but it is a […]

Amazing Stories

Steve Davidson has somehow come into ownership of one of the most storied titles in Science Fiction. Amazing Stories, the magazine started in 1926 by the man who invented the word Science Fiction, is now the sole property of Steve. He was able to acquire the trademark by luck and sheer balls. Hugo Gernsback would […]