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The summer I was 17, 1978, I was the staff cook at Camp Thunderbird, a Boy Scout camp.

That’s a Verifone credit card terminal at the King Soopers #1 (13th and Speer in Denver, a.k.a. “Scary Soopers”) pharmacy, November 12, 2020.

What are all the packages?

What can we learn from this display?

I found a bunch of new and new-ish work on the end-Ordovician extinction

I’ve written before about how much I despise baby talk descriptions of operating system abstractions as promoted by Microsoft.

The use of “folder” is particularly pernicious.

Slylock Fox is one of those bogus “kid’s fun” things that appear in the Sunday Funnies. Slylock is kind of dumb, but it’s better than Uncle Art’s Funland, which is basically a store-brand Sunday funnies strip.

Bought a Compressed air Duster - 3 Gear Adjustable 100000RPM Electric air Duster with LED Light, Cordless air Blower for Computer Keyboard Car Cleaning Kit 9000mAh Rechargeable Dust Remover

That’s me and my maternal grandfather, George Duerksen (August 23, 1902 - January 11, 1989).

Last Friday, my roomba, Dobby, got stuck with no real obstacles in sight.

Adriana Porter Felt is a Director of Engineering at Google. She knows what she’s talking about.