Life Experiences

Semantic Line Breaks

Semantic Line Breaks

Although I can’t find it on the sum total of human knowledge, the World Wide Web, I have a memory that one of the Enlightened Unix Masters, Dennis Ritchie or Brian Kernighan maybe, wrote some tips about how to format written input for the venerable troff typesetting system.

Bovine Scatolgy

Bovine Scatolgy

In September of 2020, I still subscribed to the Denver Post, Denver’s only remaining daily newspaper. I got the Wednesday and Sunday editions in paper because I’m a dinosaur. It’s just more fun to read the funnies on paper. I started to read the Letters to the Editor and editorial pages.

Weird 5G Rant

Weird 5G Rant

During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.

Laughably Inadequate Packaging

Laughably Inadequate Packaging

I ordered an ergonomic mouse from Newegg.com. My ordinary mouse was making my hand hurt from pinching it between thumb and pinkie of my right hand.