Category Archives: personal

Green Hill Builders is putting a massive subdivision right next to my property. Some guy came over and asked if he could put a seismograph in my yard. I said sure. He said I’d know when they were blasting by … Continue reading →

We’re taking a real vacation this week–up to Keene for a couple of days, over to Boston, and then probably up to Freeport, Maine. Email and blogging will be light, but I’ll be sure to post to my TextAmerica Moblog.

That geek mystique: “Jepson said he first noticed the term geek gaining positive connotations in 1993, with the introduction of the “geek code”, a method used to compress data to speed up e-mail when modems were painfully slow.” You’ve got … Continue reading →

Joshua Marketos: “they could still put an eye out.”

This excellent picture from Simon’s Living in Dryden blog makes me really feel the cold. I’ve got a frost picture of my own that might warm you up.

Shawn Wallace: “…social momentum is a sign of a healthy public life; people produce a great deal, artistically and otherwise; individuals find themselves learning more (and memorizing less) and maybe even becoming a little more understanding and compassionate.”

Glenn Fleishman points to something that’s very dear to me: “coffee houses were often the mailing addresses for folks before street addresses were common.” In the early 1990s, when I was still in college, I fell in love with the … Continue reading →

I set up a moblog for any New Year’s photos I take in the next 24 hours or so.

I’ve been corresponding with Timothy Stone about the instructions for Mac OS X startup items in Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Yesterday, he sent me the photo that appears to the right. Tim was reading my biography, which mentions … Continue reading →