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I read every book written by Robert Caro—now there was an author who loved em-dashes! I enjoyed his use of them so much in his writing that I started using them in my own book that…

this.

Yes I fucking am. Thank you for your concern.

Who fucking said my "book flopped financially" -- please, point that out. Oh, wait, you can't, because you just made that up. Fucking hell. This place sucks.

LOL, whatever.

What an asshole.

Fuck that site. Offers people links to free PDF downloads of my book that I worked on for 32 years and finally got published by Pantheon Books in 2017. I didn't work all that fucki…

I love, no luuuurrve, this article. Just fantastic research and fantastically useful for a music project I'm workin' on.

Why is this flagged!?

20 years ago? Nah, the golden era of online community was 40-50 years ago, on the PLATO system.

Bitzer was on Donahue twice. This is the second show. A couple years earlier he was on as well.

Well Wizardry was written by two PLATO gamers at Cornell, a university that had a PLATO terminal or two connected to the U of I system. Very much inspired by PLATO games like Oubli…

Ah, they broke the mold when they made Don Bitzer. Nobody can ever fill those shoes.

Sadly this article is, per the tradition over at Ars Technica, quite misleading. Bottom line: if you want to understand the actual history of the online world, don't read Ars Techn…

Fast Company's been on a much longer journey than that, and they still haven't found theirs, so maybe...

Used to run ads in 1988-90 in ComputorEdge for my first startup (Coconut Computing; we ran the COCONET online service in San Diego then). Didn't they change their name to ByteBuyer…

Nah the original assessment was too many San Diego tech workers would rather go surfing or play networked first-person shooter games than get something momentous done. There was al…

After getting to know the Boulder-area TechStars people, I tried to get a TechStars "chapter" going in San Diego back in 2010 and like so many things about the startup world in San…

Yes, so true! The inconsistencies and non-standardization continues in Tesla's mobile app. There are many other examples there too.

Any Tesla owner can relate to this, given the wide variety (read: no consistency, no standards) of toggle buttons the car's UI utilizes. For one, the HVAC. One button, showing temp…

It's a shame when a documentary series like this is made by someone with . . . issues.

I still have the DVDs in shrink-wrap. Have never watched. The documentary has a glaring omission, not covering COCONET from Coconut Computing.

"garbage in, garbage out" is alive and well

Recently was at Baltimore Washington Airport and rented a Tesla Model Y from Hertz. The ordeals began long before we arrived at BWI. I forget the reason now, but I didn't trust Her…

Well I started traveling and doing interviews in 1985. That took years. Decades. (I had to type 7 million words of transcripts, for one thing.) In 1987 I sent in a pitch to Knopf/D…