Sometimes on a DVD (you remember those, right? Way back when, like 5 years ago, yes?) you get previews that are rated before the preview starts with the curious statement “this preview has been approved for appropriate ages.” What the Read more…
6,000 years (or so) of technological progress to achieve a world wide web of instant communication, where any one can talk to any one and what do we have? Latest posting from CNN on the Ukraine insanity is “photos posted Read more…
Bethesda — a truly wonderful game company, unfortunately recently purchased by Microsoft(1) — has been making pretty good computer games for a long time now. Mostly each game they put out out has advanced the art of all gaming on Read more…
Heard a phrase today, “Happy Wife, Happy Life.” Every guy in the room nodded his head in agreement. After thinking about this for a bit, here’s a simple yardstick for you, gents. A “Wife” is not a possession. She is Read more…
So there I am, working on a computer, and I’m in the updates (the never-ending, interminable updates) and up pops this “ad” (update now or else, sort of thing) saying I can now take this computer to Windows 11. Ok. Read more…
I get (a little) annoyed with Americans and especially American Politicians (who ought to be professionals in their craft) who talk about their “democracy.” It’s not a democracy. It never was. It’s a Constitutional Republic. Completely and totally different animal. Read more…
A collage (or collision) of three items that struck my attention this morning. Thought the First: Just read an article where some folks(1) are hacking the Google and Alexa “home” stuff and can listen to everything going on in the Read more…
Every time I pick up a Mr Coffee coffee pot and it dribbles all over the table, or every time I go to put a special sheet of paper in the printer to find the paper already in there is no Read more…
When I was a kid (a century or so ago(1)), and there was a Good Program coming on TV (there actually were some, occasionally — just like now), I can remember my Mom and I in the kitchen, making a Read more…
If it’s not good for at least 100 years, why did you design it, build it, sell it or buy it? Why? Imagine how much bounty the Human Race (and the God-Zillions of other critters we share this planet with) Read more…
Not mine, I’m reposting it here. You know the expression; those who fail to learn from History, blah blah etc. Read this carefully. You are living in Interesting Times Learning to live in fear. After looking out the window I Read more…
I get unbelievable junk mail every day. Such stuff that I can’t figure out who is the more foolish: the person who sent it hoping to steal my money, or the people who fall for it, not noticing the many Read more…
There are two books that stick in my mind when I think about the year “1984.” One book (obviously) is the one by that very title, written in 1949 as a warning about where we were heading, both as a Read more…
Just a reminder, for some of you, and a Clue for the rest of you… See the embedded video here. This was a “parody” of the news as it was 40 years ago (as I write this). It was that Read more…
No opinion on these is being expressed here. Just suggesting these ought to be thought about… by everybody. Why are spies treated differently during war than is every other participant in that war? All sides have spies. All sides have Read more…
Almost no one out there in the Wide World — or at least the world touched by Mass Media — understands what “Science” is. I promise you, it’s not what most people think it is, not what you were taught Read more…
Recently I had opportunity (and reason) to watch 3 different versions of the same movie: Ten Little Indians(1), based on Agatha Christie’s play and book of the same name. 1965 with Wilfrid Hyde Wight, Fabian, Hugh O’Brien, and others. 1974 Read more…
I was just reading an article (perhaps a rant, but the author’s numbers and facts seem to check out) that is really very scary in several ways. He brings up some things I wasn’t aware of. But I’ll just touch Read more…
I hear People come down on Google for keeping track of what one does, or for “listening” to everything one says while within ear-shot of a live microphone(1). Besides the fact that this is largely misleading propaganda probably put forward Read more…
I’ve been a programmer for a very, very long time. (Yes, before sand was invented, even. 🙂 OK, not quite that long.) I have been watching the standards for software design, implementation, release and after-market support spiral down the rabbit Read more…