I watched a YouTube video that gave a great definition of the Engineering Method.

Circa 1970, I read a large number of grade school reading books. One of them had a story in it about a boy who performed various athletic feats. The passage I remember from this book was the boy’s manager saying that his diet was rich in iron, and the boy was getting a part-time job as an anchor.

Paleontogical reconstructions evolve over time.

I took this picture on Drake Ave in Fort Collins. I was afraid to try to decipher the runes for fear of finding out there were some god damn neo-nazis in my neighborhood.

Microsoft Windows is a hideous mess.

The 6th Edition Unix kernel source code has a very weird struct:

/*
 * structure to access an
 * integer in bytes
 */
struct
{
    char    lobyte;
    char    hibyte;
};

Make one box of mac-n-cheese, kids scarf it and clamor for more.

I got two similar ads on June 4, 2023, in one single article, from The Guardian.

I was a dedicated rock climber and a sometime ice climber all through the 1980s. I tried to go climbing every weekend, and every holiday.

Here’s why I quit climbing.