Here’s the songlist for VisiCalc, The Musical!:
A Forlorn Apple ][, I Oh Rows, Oh Columns, Oh Cells, Oh My! How Shall I Calculate My Love For Thee? 123, 123, Oh Lord Jesus, Lotus 123! Requiem For a Monochromatic Grid of Numbers Somewhere, Up in Heaven, There’s An Angel Who Can Add Really Fast
I think it’s going to be huge. For [...]
Although Ketchikan has a population of only 7368, it is the fifth largest city in Alaska1. This is partly due to the vast tracts of wilderness and icy waste that dominate the Alaskan landmass, but mostly due to the Alaskan state slogan: The State with a Billion Billion Cities.
Late Alaskan governor Mad Sparky McJuddnick instituted [...]
We didn’t get much time in Vancouver, alas. I’ve heard nothing but lovely things about this place, and it would have been very cool to actually meet all the excellent people I’ve been working with for the past year. But no. The imperatives of recreational travel mandate that we proceed directly from airport to dock, [...]
Canada: socialist outpost on the proud shores of Mother Capitalism.
We only spent two hours in Toronto, all of it in the airport, most of it in line at customs — but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from our president, it’s that all you need to do to understand something is look into its soul [...]
Fate is a rollercoaster of improbabilities that twists through vistas of the unlikely and the mundane and the absurd before depositing you in the middle of an American Idol concert.
Or maybe that’s just me.
Anyway, that’s where I found myself this weekend, in a narrow plastic seat in front of a row of pre-teen girls, all [...]
Back when I was a young pup, before the world decided that it needed “mice” and “keyboards” and “editors” and “compilers”, we programmed by burning tiny holes in ribbons of paper tape with magnifying glasses, and then feeding them into Mastodon, our 80-ton Difference Engine. Mastodon was installed on a small island in the South [...]
My mom was (gently) admonishing me the other day for all the filthy language I use on this blog. I am, needless to say, mortified. I had no idea she was even reading this thing. So I will definitely be treading more carefully from now on.
However — it’ll be difficult to ditch the epithets entirely, [...]
… but Mr Heston is perhaps best known for his role in the 1981 masterpiece, Planet of the Ten Commandments, in which he first uttered those immortal words: “Let my people go, you damn dirty apes!“
When I first started working in DC, one of the first things I noticed was how nasty your average Starbucks customer is down here. You see it over and over again: the guy who stands in line oozing impatience, ostentatiously checking his watch, sighing loudly, staring daggers at helpless barristas. I was saddened by it. [...]
Huzzah, felicity, and joy … Fafblog is back:
“Screw this dump!” says Giblets. “This universe is old and fat and smells like smelling and Giblets is busting out!” “Should we go over the wall or take the tunnel?” says me. I been diggin a tunnel. “Nuts to the [...]
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