Everyone at work took a Myers-Briggs personality test last month. The idea was that the tests would help us understand each other, so that we’d all get along better and group-hug more. Because there’s a definite lack of group hugging at my office. Also individual hugging. In fact, hugging is pretty much out, by order [...]
Check this out. An ancient ad for the Apple I: Highlights: 8K on-board RAM! Expandable to 16K! 40 character / 24 line display! Monitor attachment option, to allow for viewing of stuff you’re typing! 1 Kilobaud cassette drive interface, for saving of stuff you’re typing! Stuff occasionally retrievable! I’d love to have been here when [...]
The last thing I wrote in the waning days of Clarion came out in a sort of fever dream, and it shows: it’s a tumbling wordy over-the-top story about an amorphous living city’s relationship with its children. That’s what I thought it was about, anyway. But a couple of really perceptive people in my writing [...]
I’m generally not a big fan of novels about book clubs, for a couple of reasons: Things hardly ever explode, and, when they do, it tends to be meaningful. No steely-eyed bounty hunters navigating the wilds of a post-apocalyptic society. No fart jokes. However — I just finished The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen [...]
Typewriters were already on their way out when I was a kid. My dad had a couple of sturdy Selectrics at work, and they still showed up on TV in the mid 80s, clacking along in newsrooms or police stations or office buildings. But by the time I got to college they were pretty much [...]
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