My neighborhood has both a regular trash service and a recycling service, each with a different can. I generate so little trash that I don’t really participate… I mean, by each Wednesday morning I have about a quarter-can of refuse to put out, and if I split it all out…
Yesterday I posted about the Pink Floyd show I saw in 1994, which was notable as being the last Pink Floyd tour ever. A few years prior to this I got to see the Yes “Union” tour… It was May 9th, 1991 at the now long-gone McNichols Sports Arena in…
It is June 18th, 1994, just after sunset… I’m standing in a throng of 69,788 people on the field of Mile High Stadium; the scent of pot thickly fills the air. Ahead of us at one end of the stadium is a massive stage, above it hovers an equally massive…
I’m sitting here at work, working (as one tends to do at work), and I’m playing my ‘old man’ music… Today is a selection of old Rush from the recent 40th anniversary reissue of “Moving Pictures”. Moving Pictures came out in ’81… I remember picking it up at the record…
Long, long ago software came on physical media – actual floppies, CDs, and DVDs – and I’ve held on to a lot of it that I’ve purchased over the years. I still have things like Windows NT 4 server install floppies, a boxed copy of OS/2, and even my old…
For the sheer Back-To-The-Future-Ness of it, I’ve spent some time over the last few days working out how to get 20th century analog to work with 21st century digital. See, back in the 80’s and 90’s pretty much everything was analog – especially the way we talked to other people.…