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…
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Skip to main contentRemember, 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…
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…
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”…
* “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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Something I first came across about a decade ago, and then again every few years: this re-arrangement of scenes from The Fountain, set to (and titled after) one of the tracks from its soundtrack. htt…