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The first cyberpunk novel I read was True Names by Rudy Rucker. John Shirley has been called 'patient zero of cyberpunk' for his novel Eclipse. (I published a collection of Cyberpu…

Anyone who drives faster than you is a jerk. Anyone who drives slower is an idiot.

Harp player here. When I first started playing, I had a Gindick's book, Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. This was maybe 35 years ago. I would recommend that …

Howie the Crab was a weirdly warm place on social media. The daily cute pictures and videos of a pet land crab attracted hundreds of thousands of followers. The funny hats, visitin…

Damn! One of my old books can be found in the Anna's Archive search. The book has been out of print for years. I pity the Meta users who get results based on something that I wrote…

I got work with a Xerox Star when I had a job at Western Union. It was wonderful. It took many years for Mac and Windows to catch up.

I have always thought that Dylan showed up drunk, and they started late, so he could sober up a bit. It was New Year's Eve, 1971.

I was there. It started three hours late. They showed a samurai movie with subtitles while we waited. My GF was sick from all the smoke. Dylan seemed drunk. But it is a fantastic a…

It used to be possible to make a radio receiver out of a diaper pin and a blue razor blade. The coating on the blade acted like a crystal. You needed a cheap pair of headphones or …

Same here. In the 1950s and 1960s, I never saw any deer near where I live. Now they are a nuisance animal.

In the early 1980s, I got a job at Western Union (the old telecom company, not the thing it became). I was programming special reports in 4GL languages like RAMIS and MARK IV plus …

I repair tube guitar amplifiers from time to time, and I cringe when I see the 50L6 power tube and the 35Z4 rectifier. These tubes light up like lightbulbs, and run so hot that the…

I always felt that Tom Bombadil was filler in order to bridge events between Crick Hollow and the Prancing Pony. Tolkien had already written The Adventures of Tom Bombadil as a sep…

https://ErrorMessageEyes.com Error Message Eyes Release 2.0 A Programmer's Guide to the Digital Soul Twenty-four Science Fiction Stories of Computers, Robots, Programs, and Algorit…

I am first mentioned 5/2/89. I was having fun writing MASM programs and released about 50 freeware programs around then. I used bulletin boards rather than Usenet back then. Usenet…

A beekeeper here. 1. Bees have only been kept in flat frames for less than 200 years which would not be enough time to select for such a specific trait. 2. Domestic bees that swarm…

20 years ago I bought CThreePO.com hoping to sell it to a Star Wars fan. Nobody wanted it. I still own it. I used it to host my essays and blog about science fiction. It is now hos…

While cleaning up my basement I found a box of 8" disks. These date back to when I had 2 5110s running in my living room one year. I wrote AR software for a liquor distribution com…

I programmed MASM in the 1990s and found myself deciding exactly where to put the 90H bytes in order to make the code work. It is good to see this stuff.

The first FORTRAN programs that I wrote were a version called FORTRAN WITH FORMAT that ran on an old 1401. This was 1969. The compiler booted from an old dogeared card deck and som…

In my senior year of high school (1968-69) Mike Sivy (Yes that Michael Sivy) and I tried to build some components of a digital computer out of military surplus relays. We took the …