geez, I used to hitch-hike from nowhere to Geneseo NY to sneak into the computer labs and play the APL version of this. (APL! on Selectrics!) I decided that I had to learn APL to hack this up, and before I knew it I got lost in Sundance books looking for the only APL book in existence and I... I... urp. this was what, 1975?

The never-seen lab rats kept the 7 or 8 user accounts on a chalkboard in the front of the room.

They never asked what a high school kid was doing there.

I wonder if the sierra stove's fan could be powered by one of those squeezy / shakey flashlights.

I have made the mistake of showing these to my 9 year old. Time for a shipping container and a trip to france!

Any other recommendations for kids audio?

We've enjoyed "Citizen of the Galaxy" and the Tiffany stories...

> I lay the blame squarely on the "conspiracy" that
> OpenPGP was excluded from implementation in >
> Netscape Mail and Microsoft Outlook† in the
> 1990s. (People don't miss something they never
> had.)

Netscape Messenger had 128 bit encryption for email.

ACB is onto something.

The Kodak Disk camera was an attempt to recapture an earlier era of profits for the company. By locking in the media format to their hardware Kodak hoped to get extravagant $$$ for a new generation of consumers.

They still lusted for the Brownie.

Kodak is a great story of how not to run a company.

- ex Rochester NY kid.

They were doing this spritzing and spraying 10 years ago when I was bopping back and forth to NZ.

hell, we even had to bug-bomb our tents while kayaking in the fjords. Serial bug-bombing!
bug bomb the big screen tent / kitchen, then run in your wet suits and set up your tent, bug bomb it, then run back to the big screen tent / lock yourself in, take off your wet suit / anti bug garmets, wait for the sleeping tent to vent...

"On Food and Cooking" has lead to a lot of oral reading over the Grill with Nerds.

I run with "How to Cook Everything" and "Joy..." for most things, and dip into the Silver Palette books now and again.

Funny how rarely I use the Mooswood books here in family life.

We had dinner guest, Chris Blizzard then of RedHat, one night last winter. Among his pile of gear ( I think he is his own cloud computer ) was an XO.

The only newbie to the device who could open it deftly was the 8 year old.

If you think this is great, just wait
until you get a google phone!

The gmail addbar will seem quaint compared to what voice recognition based indexing of your cell phone life will provide you.

or provide you to.