Before I get into that, I’ll note that yet another hardware retailer, viz. Compucare, has closed in my area. That leaves one overpriced independent shop downtown ($50 for a pulled Intel 10/100 NIC!) whose employees don’t seem too happy about working there. That in turn leaves Best Buy, of video-game induced cacophony and diminished hardware [...]
That is the current mythology, but healthy dissent is good now and then. To wit, Perhaps the most outrageous piece of propaganda in the [Newt] Gingrich/Forstchen article is their statement that “Lincoln was the first president to invite and socially greet a delegation of African-Americans into the White House.” They say this to give their [...]
“A document for all to examine: economists, historians, and the general reader alike,” the 1936 German edition of Keynes his General Theory. (Yes that is unabbreviated usage for fun, or to escape s’ or s’s, heh). “One can read whole reams of economic literature written by both fervent followers of John Maynard Keynes and his [...]
Old hat, and the cat complains “one can’t do it all”; in other words, system administration is a bitch (he says richly). I have given up on turning my new/old router into a blog as of old, because I’ve spent far too much time on it, and I’ve got better things to do, like complain, [...]
Of course no author can really advertise the detritus of his work, but it has a good ring to it, Fragments forthcoming. And of course it is a deliberate juxtaposition, if also for humor’s sake. Soon I hope to post said fragments (heh) at, indeed, fragments. They will be nothing so compellingly grand as Die [...]