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Which god? Humans have invented several thousands of them over the years.

I recently found out that I'm a direct descendant of 3 families of Mayflower passengers. I'd like to join the Mayflower Society, but the process of researching 8 generations of anc…

I have these often as well. Had one the other night where I was headed back to bootcamp at 50. Somehow convinced myself in my dream that I could totally do it. I always wake up wit…

I feel really badly for anybody starting off today. The technology landscape is terrifying and it's really hard to know what to learn or even where to start. With a C64, you could …

Get ready for another dark age. The destruction of education and medicine in this country means plague doctors will be making a return. Better check with your HMO to make sure your…

I started with their LOGO on Apple ][s back on the early 80s. I reached out to them a while back to let them know the impact they had on my career.

I was introduced to LOGO sometime around 1981/82 while I was in elementary school. I loved it. My teacher was just as much of a nerd as I was, so we all learned it together. Had it…

Cool stuff, man! I also love to dabble in old, long-dead technologies and feel no need to justify it to anybody. I tinker with old 8 and 16 bit Commodore machines writing code and …