ISSN 1496-3221
November 3, 2001
Well, color me published. I’ve just had my very first word added to the spiffy pseudodictionary. And as those who know me can well attest, it’s a word that is quite dear to my heart. Piles of old crap you say? Pish, posh… it’s compunabula, darling.
March 1, 2001
I was a guest at my daughter’s Brownie meeting tonight. The entire group was working on some of the criteria to qualify for their technology badge. Being a geek in the eyes of my wife and my two daughters apparently qualifies me to speak about computers and technology in front of a bunch of seven … More
September 21, 2000
New rule to live by: Take something home every day. This guideline has developed out of my need to reduce the mountain of crap I have collected in my office over the past 12 years. Actually, crap is really not the right word from my perspective. A much better description would be “amazingly useful stuff … More
April 30, 2000
I own way too many domain names already, but due to a friend’s compulsion for retro technology, I just registered the nixietube.com domain. I guess I share a strange attraction and an oddly obsessive behavior towards obsolete computers and electronic devices with this friend of mine. After all, we did spend a good part of … More
April 26, 2000
The theme for my company’s sporadically scheduled TGIF this week is “retro-computing”. I’m in a quandary whether to bring a MacPortable, my Canon Cat Work Processor, or the 150 pound rackmount cartridge hard drive unit from the PDP8 stored in my garage. I’m leaning towards the self-contained demoing possibilities of the Cat, and quite frankly, … More