Writing software, once a form of individual proclivity, is about to be, at least in its most common functions, daringly standardized.
The innovative initiative has been dubbed “A Uniform Standard For Dumb Simple Tasks.”
While the group that has put forward the radical suggestion has no way of enforcing it, widespread adoption is expected, because there is […]
It always fries my brains when I have nothing more creative to do with my time than visit a computer store. It is a bit like sending a Brit soldier to the gulf without any body armour. I am always caught between the friendly fire of spotty computer experts who start rubbing themselves up against […]
“Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.”– Grace Allen (Gracie)“It’s foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who’s going to […]
Now then, the wonders of quagmires are a treat I have never encountered. I had the uncanny ability, as a youth, to attend Europe’s premier music festival twice, and both times I stumbled upon a West Country heat wave.
Yes, it’s true; yours truly enjoyed the warmth of the sun and the cider tent […]
Does anyone remember those early high school days? You know,
the time when most of us started to discover the opposite sex in
ernest, but we still weren’t completly evolved yet. I can still
remember those early day High School parties that we had.
You know, those parties that you would have at a friends house
where all the […]
It’s springtime in Idaho, the water is rushing down from melting snow scaring the hell out of folks as it rushes down the streets of some Idaho mountain towns.
One daffodil has poked its head in my front yard.
There is a dead starling in the front yard too.
I’m afraid to touch it. I don’t know if […]
I almost had a garden this year. Then the earwigs took over my lettuce. The grasshoppers confiscated all my zucchini and various other flying insects shared the sunflowers. The gophers leveled one row in an afternoon. They enjoyed a healthy salad. I did get one meal of peas and one […]
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at Rutgers University in front of around 150 high school students, which was a lot better than speaking behind them. The subject was humor columns, so it goes without saying that walruses came up multiple times. I mean, so many times that I completely lost track. […]
Appearing naked in other people’s dreams is a concept which occurred to me as I woke up this morning from a dream in which I was naked. It’s about time someone added this important idea to our literary and cultural heritage.
Advantages to appearing naked in other people’s dreams seem infinitely numerous, but I’ll limit the […]
Everyone is into physical fitness these days. Why? Are they planning on going to the Olympics? If not, why bother getting physical at all? Any time I see a person running, they look like they are in pain. Maybe, in the case of men, their jock strap is too tight or in the case of […]