All Hell is breaking loose here in Mendocino County… where to begin? Well for starters, the weather. We had a very wet January, but from the middle of February on, it’s been frightfully dry. Pretty much all Spring, it’s been dry, windy, chilly, and dry. Last Friday evening, I noticed some interesting clouds; it looked…
Month: June 2008
the most universally interesting blog post ever
Well, uh… you see it’s like this: my girlfriend was talking to one of her 653 sisters about her/our new camper. Sister wanted to see pictures of the inside. Girlfriend said to look at my website. So, I’m posting these two pics, courtesy of the folks who sold it to her.
the stampede of technological progress, part 3
In 1979, I moved to Berkeley and began attending school there. I was originally planning to major in astronomy, since I thought Carl Sagan was cool and it was fun to tell people I was going to be an astrophysicist. It seemed like a good idea to have a fall-back; a possible major that actually…
the stampede of technological progress, part 2
This chapter of the Great Historic Epic of our Generation will be brief. While technology was stampeding away during the late seventies, I had relatively little contact with it. Due to forces beyond my control, I found myself attending high school in Wayne, Nebraska. I remember this as more the era of the calculator rather…
when did i move to florida?
Dang, I don’t remember moving to Florida, but it looks like I have. It seems like with each election, Mendocino County becomes more and more Florida-esque. A coupla years back, Mendo County closed most of its precincts and went to mail-in ballots. I hear this has to do with handicapped access—they can’t get penalized for…
the stampede of technological progress, part 1
I thought it might be interesting to somebody-somewhere-somewhen if I were to assemble a series of anecdotes on the theme of my encounters with the rising tide of computer technology. I wrote my first computer program about 34 years ago. It would be a wee little understatement to say that things have changed a lot…
adventures in yolla bolly land
I just got back to civilization after a brief camping trip to the Yolla Bolly Middle Eel Widerness and its neighborhood. We were camping with a pop-up tent trailer, a whole new style of camping to me. Hardly anyone drags a trailer up the rugged dirt roads to Yolla Bolly Land; in fact hardly anyone…