I was using Google to search for something entirely unrelated (”Jefferson County” “ibm mainframe”, if you must know), and came across an interesting PDF file: Do Nuclear Facilities Attract UFOs?
I’m posting it here just for general amusement; I don’t have any particularly strong opinions about UFOs. The claim made about a UFO reducing the [...]

At some point one of the hubcaps on my car disappeared. I’m not sure if it fell off on the road somewhere, or was appropriated while the car was parked. With my old car, an inexpensive econo-box, I went for years with a missing hubcap and never worried about it. But I [...]

Someone asked about my degree plans in a comment on an earlier post, so I thought I’d expand a little on my educational background and plans.
I first enrolled in college 24 years ago, but I was going because it was expected of me, not because I especially wanted to do it. I wasn’t very [...]

Class is going well. Our first actual speech (not reading) was a 1-2 minute self-introduction, which had to have two main points each with two subpoints, and at least one visual aid.
The hard part is keeping it to under two minutes. As Pascal said, “This one [letter} would not be so long had [...]

Last December I bought an Epson Stylus Photo R300 inkjet printer, because it was on sale for under $80, and it can print directly onto printable CDs and DVDs. I didn’t actually get around to using it for that until just now. It works great!

John Morressy, author and retired english professor, was perhaps best known for his stories of the wizard Kedrigern. Hardly a month went by without one of his short stories appearing in F&SF or other magazines.

A computer virus made the rounds, and it took a while for anyone to notice because it didn’t cause any obvious problems.  Instead, what it did was modify the Windows Solitaire game to always be unwinnable.  Gradually people stopped playing solitaire, and productivity went up.
Eventually when the virus was discovered, a few people were really [...]

Since the late 1970s I’ve been a fan of Alan Kotok’s work as one of the architects of the PDP-6 and PDP-10. At the PDP-1 celebration at the Computer History Museum this past May 15, I had the great privilege of finally meeting him and speaking with him for a few minutes. I [...]

I may not find out my grade for Java Programming (CIS 043/183) until the release of the official spring semseter grades on June 12, but Professor Ting posted the grades for Discrete Math (MATH 019) and for third-semester Calculus (MATH 004A) outside his door. I was pleased to see that I’d gotten an A [...]