Lots of Monkeys

It is a cold day at the National Harbor and I have on a too thin jacket.  I’m trying to make up for it with brisk walking, but there is a breeze that cuts through my jacket.

I see the Awakening, moved from its original home at Hains Point.  I start towards it for a moment, readying my camera as I do so.  I was thinking of the atypical blizzard we had when I see something that catches me completely by surprise. Continue reading →

How much of my technical knowledge has actually deprecated?

In no particular order:

• I know how to start up a computer with a magnetically coded piece of plastic sandwiched between two other layers of plastic, or between two spools.
• 64k was enough memory and man, would it have been sweet to upgrade to 128k.  Lowercase “k.”
• Man, this mouse thing is a great peripheral.
• HIMEM.SYS
• 16 scales of gray really made a difference.
• Dialing up.
• I was writing things like this in notebooks.  Paper ones.
• I took a touch typing class, on a typewriter.
• Developed film and made prints in a lab.
• I cut articles of paper with scissors and then pasted them onto a board to send to the printer.
• This Gopher thing is great!
• I thought I had enough storage.
• rec.games.video.arcade was a valid resource for Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors.
• I could play a video game, without buying it for $60.
• I’ve watched the rise and fall of about four different kinds of magnetic storage media.
• There were different types of recordable CDs.  Also, there were CDs.
• When I wanted to know how one of my friends was doing, I would give them a call and hope they were at home.
• I printed out letters on a dot matrix printer in order to fax them to friends.
• Mosaic
• I thought I had enough RAM.
• I had a list of IP addresses memorized in case DNS wasn’t working for the internet.

Euh.  The list goes on.  But this is just an off the top of my head thing.

I just really like these:

Fletcher Rosenbarker
Whitney Goddard
Daisy Maiocco
Latoya Yazzie
Wilmer McWilliams
Zvi Gunderson
Koeck Thomas
Grandfathers K. Sociability
Kenton Bernard
Ava Cantu
Erna Rasmussen
Diogo McCain

I have been in the condo for way too long.  It is driving me mad.

That’s all I really have to say.