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.

Now even more inscrutable, with intermediate fire!

I found a piece of an old wallet while I was cleaning up my home office. It had some baby pictures of my son, who is now 22. It also had some fortune cookie fortunes.

I keep noticing articles or posts with titles like “N lessons from Napoleon on X”, where N is usually 10, and X has values of “productivity”, “life”, “career”, “management”, vague things like that.

I was so inspired by seeing these valuable lessons, that I wrote Career and life lessons from meatloaf as an homage.

Here’s 10 “Lessons from Napoleon” posts to prove that taking lessons from meatloaf isn’t all that odd.

I recently read this book because I vaguely recalled reading it as a youngster. For the first third of the book, my recollection seemed correct, but then the book diverged from what I remembered. Maybe I didn’t read it back in the late 60s after all.