Me Posts

• 04.17.04 My Geek History (Me)

  Time to bore you young whippersnappers with my early history in computers. (I saw a couple of other people do it and thought hey! I can do that too!) First we have to set the Wayback Machine for the darkest depths of the ‘70s, a decade that’s oh-so-much funner as retro than it was to live through…… MORE

• 04.13.97 They Made Me An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse (Me)

  System Software were looking for a Post-It Notes™ type of program for System 7.5. They were already buying several other utilities—including Find File, Scrapbook, SuperClock—from third parties, and offered Antler Software (me) the same lump sum deal for the “Antler Notes” utility I was working on. It was a nice piece of change. I was happy.

  This came to the attention of certain people in upper management, whose conclusion was (I’m paraphrasing … MORE

• 08.24.95 Jens The Consumer (Ideas, Me, Music)

  The problem of leisure
  What to do for pleasure
  Ideal love a new purchase
  A market of the senses—Gang Of Four, “Natural’s Not In It”

  “He realizes everything he does is second-hand, a waking dream, a dream someone else has dreamed for him—when he walks into a pub and greets friends with a line he’s half-consciously lifted from last night’s sit-com, he’s an advertisement. He hears himself and he feels tricked, … MORE