I am old enough to remember the cool guys who worked on mainframe computers in the late seventies. They would hang out in the college computer center wearing jeans and t-shirts, impressing us with their mystical knowledge of early computer programming. I would patiently wait in line with my stack of punch cards to ask Read More
How many times have you been annoyed by repeatedly being asked if you are a robot? Everything we do on our phone or computing device requires us to prove we’re not a robot. Too often, we are challenged with the puzzle below and squint to make out letters or numbers mashed together, stretched out or Read More
I have survived the last sixty-odd years not taking everything at face value. In grade school, I had doubts the counterculture of the 1960s would survive much after the concert at Woodstock. During the early 1970s, I knew Viet Nam was, regrettably, a lost cause. Like many Americans, I prayed our soldiers would return from Read More
As any unpublished writer knows, getting a mainstream publishing house to consider your book is next to impossible. You can try getting an agent to promote your work, but they typically won’t take on any new writers who haven’t been previously published. So, what’s a new writer to do? Do you continue to knock your Read More