Cultural context: I’m old enough to have lived through the introduction and expansion of yogurt into North American dominant food culture. When I was a kid it was the weird-smelling white goop that looked enticingly like ice cream but tasted…
I miss it. I do. Or rather I miss it in other people. I am exposing myself as a nearly 60 year old IT-adjacent curmudgeon. But I have been running servers and supporting people in their use of technology —…
I was out riding with the OBC June 28 on a century-ish effort to Dunvegan when suddenly I found myself on the deck, looking over my bike, putting the steering tube cap back on and checking the drive train to…
Since the late 1980s I have had a bit too much technology in my life. When I was working for the student press, I was so fascinated by the computer bulletin board technology we were running to distribute news stories,…
I should say I am not an electrician. I have over my longish (charmed) life managed, however, to install receptacles, switches and fixtures in a variety of homes with a broad range of tools and have lived to tell the…