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Age 77.. started with Fortran in '68 on an IBM1130, assembler on a Linc-8 in '70, then at UofWaterloo on IBM360/75 with (omg) 3MB ram. Then scientific programming mostly Fortran or…

Some ideas here! https://www.martinogamper.com/project/a-100-chairs-in-a-100-...

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I_Found_a_Digital_Camera...

Just tried 'lonely' and it returned Olivia Laing's The Lonely City, which I read a few years ago and loved... I'm now going to read it again.. thanks!

Noting your comment, I couldn't resist linking to some more CSS art: https://css-art.com/the-girl-with-a-p-e-a-r-l-css-earring/ Not sure how many centred divs are in it though...

The term 'paint pot' is perhaps confusing, the drawing represents the end of a 'tube of paint' out of which yellow paint has been squeezed. The 'y' word is indeed 'yellow'.

After a fairly exhausting search of alternatives, I ended up with Newscracker .. it copes well with a large number of feeds, has good capability for classification, and I can toler…

er.. how long till humans show general intelligence without any apparent failures..?

Just spent a pleasant hour looking through machines and paraphernalia on AliExpress.. when my Silvia dies again (repaired twice now @ $500 a time) I'll get one from here.. didn't s…

Thanks for this article and the comments. Reminds me of a trick we kids did in the early 60s (yeah, sorry) with the British 'phone box' pay phones. We called it 'tapping the phone'…

'My Library' by Julien Keith, is great for Android users... Over 1m downloads and 4.6 star average... My own library is only about 600 odd books, but it was easy to use, interestin…

I don't save many quotes, but that's going to be one of them! Thanks!

Sincere thanks to Ugur Sahin and Oezlem Tuereci for their dedication, hard work and incredible achievement.

US Presidents need a mandatory retirement age.. perhaps 70 is a suitable round number...

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...

"How not to die" by Michael Greger .. nearly half the book is the list of references...

Thank you! A beautiful article!