Dave gets a movie rental card
Faced with producing a documentary film, and faced with the increasing prospect of doing it on my own without help from people who know what they're doing, I went on an excursion last night. Well,...
View ArticleVintage PCs and bubblegum and Unix and Windows server crashes
Mail. Svenson wrote in, a little bit disturbed at the "vintage" label I hung on Pentium IIs this week. Here's what he said: The post Vintage PCs and bubblegum and Unix and Windows server crashes...
View ArticleThe Kansas City Royals, where everything is wrong
I was pretty happy that the Royals were just a game under .500 a week ago. That's good for them. After all, their closer, Roberto Hernandez, has been injured all year. Other players are nursing...
View ArticleTell Pete Rose to crawl back under his rock
Pete Rose really isn't worth this sentence. The post Tell Pete Rose to crawl back under his rock appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
View ArticleTaking one for the team
The press is divided: Alfonso Soriano is Terrell Owens. Alfonso Soriano isn't Terrell Owens. No matter. There is one thing that matters. Alfonso Soriano is an employee of the Washington Nationals...
View ArticleMy Stan Musial stories
When I was a toddler, I played in Stan Musial’s swimming pool. Yes, I really did. Stan Musial’s son in law and my dad interned together, and at some point–presumably when the two of them graduated–the...
View ArticleMy first 1935 Goudey card: Joe Vosmik
Dad and I were at the late, lamented World of Baseball Cards on Lemay Ferry Road in south St. Louis County sometime in the late 1980s, flipping through vintage cards. Among the old cards in the pile...
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