A joke from some time ago
If I may share without comment, a translated version of a popular joke on Weibo a few years ago.…
The Enchanted Wood
A long time ago, when I was busy trying to read everything by Enid Blyton1, I came across The Magic Faraway Tree. And. I. Loved. It. This being the age before Amazon and not having a large library ar…
A prescient interview by Aldous Huxley
Remember, this interview was filmed just over six decades ago, and reference a book written nine decades ago (Brave New World). Of course, his interviewer is humoring him and not quite taking him ser…
Monthly Recap (Aug 2020)
Major updates * Tara began (virtual) kindergarten (!) Minor updates * Garage cleanup * Finished my fourth 1000-piece puzzle * Haircuts * Some dentist trips * Trips: Pleasanton to meet friend…
My history with computers, Part 3
Old computers sometimes had a “Turbo” or “Boost” button to manually switch to a higher clock speed. Toggling this on and off could count as a valid game-playing strategy, if you needed to “speed past”…
Some board games to put on the list ....
Generally interesting links - Aug 2020
* “The truth is paywalled but the lies are free” * Blast-from-the-past for RPG gaming: the newer Baldur’s Gate * Bjarne Stroustrup on various things * Reviewing a scene in Predator (there is so mu…
Streaming posts
(FYI) Continuing my experiments in blogging patterns, I created https://cyberneticwords.com as a "stream of snippets" site. I will evaluate after a year if it's worth continuing it or no…
Thoughts on continuing to use Twitter
Context In a previous post1, I mentioned how my experience of Twitter is actually quite nice and I don’t encounter any of the craziness that other people report. Is that still true? Well, yes and no…
Thoughts on blogging (changes)
Status Looking at my “online activity” for the past 5 years, I’ve been writing at: 1. Twitter 2. Wordpress 3. A Static Blog Observations * Of these, (3) is basically dead, and is around merel…
My favorite year in movies- 2006
There are a bunch of movies I’ve liked, over the years, in different genres, from different times. But there is an unusually large cluster of them around a single year, 2006 (about fourteen years ago…
My history with computers, Part 2- “Mid 90s
Context Picking up where I left off last time: we’d got a first, new computer, the first set of simple games, and a first operating system (ye olde DOS). QBasic As I’ve mentioned, the only program…