As of today, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is no more… The end of an era. Here’s a couple of my E3 badges: one from 2009 and the other from 2010 – for posterity: Unlike a lot of folks, I’ve edited out my name, company name, and the barcode for…
As I mentioned a few months ago; I’m kinda into music and accordingly I always have some nice stuff for the reproduction of it. Now I’m not some mental-case audiophile who needs four-figure interconnects for my six-figure component setup… I prefer to do the best I can while still being…
My roommate is on day three at the hospital; surgery went fine and they got what they were after without complication, so now it’s just recovery from having his insides manhandled for a few hours. Yesterday was apparently a lot of pain, and today is just sore and tired –…
About once a week for years now I’ve stopped at the Carl’s Jr. near the office and gotten breakfast. And in that time the morning crew and I have gotten to know each other. The usual process goes something like this; I pull up in my big rumbly sedan at…
Leading up to September 1989 I’d had quite a few different home computers – Sinclair ZX-81, Commodore VIC-20, and an Atari 800XL – but it was in the afternoon of a chilly September in Connecticut, 34 years ago, that I set up the first computer that I actually purchased for…
My CFO / real-estate mogul has been renovating a new house for his family for about a year and a half now – and now that he’s moved in, he has discovered a network shortcoming that I’ve been tasked to fix. See, he bought the place off of some relatives…