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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Case in programming identifiers

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By no means a comprehensive list, and feel free to give me alternate names or etymologies... LoremIpsum CamelCase This is ambiguous a...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Dell XPS 13 9360

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I want to state upfront that I am suspending my overall judgment of this machine until I can identify how difficult it plausibly is to fix m...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

NYC parking app - An idea

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I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for several months since I moved to NYC- a mobile app to give you a notification to move you...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

First Ladies

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I've heard it reported on CNN that Melania Trump will become "just the second foreign-born First Lady in US history." Once...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Dave Theurer's nightmares

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A rational nightmare One video game designer, Dave Theurer consistently had intense nightmares about nuclear war ending the world as we k...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Joke of the Day #27

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Dan: What do you call really dysfunctional scanner software? Stan: Not sure. Does it use the most common API in the industry? Dan: Yes, al...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Joke of the Day #26

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Ann: I'm just looking at this Visual Basic code for the first time. Seems like they declare all variables with the preface "Dim....

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy

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Anti-war politicians need catchy slogans. After all, nations since the 20th century have generally thrown all of their might into a war, usi...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

The computers of my life

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I was born in 1988. My firsthand experience with computers of the 20th century was sufficient to convince me that I liked them. After 2005, ...

The very unique President Garfield

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Garfield's Life Brady-Handy portrait of Garfield, 1870s James A. Garfield was a man who became President and died shortly ther...