Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
It will take some time to post the Washington Apple Pi Journal articles. There are a lot of them, and the articles and any illustrations are mostly not in digital form. Laziness dictates that I not retype everything 😇 and Continue reading Washington Apple Pi Journal
George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm (August, 1945) has 29,966 words. Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 (October, 1953) has 46,118 words. Apple’s  “Apple Developer Program License Agreement” (June, 2017) has 42,993 words. In terms of plot, setting, and character, the license agreement is no Continue reading License agreement as literature
Siri does haiku. Haiku is a very ancient form of Japanese poetry, based on a pattern of seventeen syllables over three lines of five, seven and five syllables. It is also the bane of introductory literature students unfamiliar with poetry Continue reading AI and haiku
We allegedly live in an age of plenty. Is that limited edition toy sold out? The manufacturer will make more. Grocery store out of your favorite brand of yogurt? Wait a day, or if you are impatient, go to another store. Continue reading Reaching your limit
I spent most of my grade school years drawing pictures instead of doing classwork. Classwork was easy, so I did that quickly and then “illuminated” my work with fanciful spacecraft, mythic maps, and lots of lizards and horses. My maps Continue reading Why I didn’t become a graphic artist
Fact: you can get 24 CDs worth of information on a single 16 GB SD card; it would take just 8 such cards to store all the information on these CDs. Yes, these were my CDs (since recycled). CD-ROM retirement (full size)
Apple touts Time Machine, their backup technology, as a marvel. But there are other forms of time travel. (The moiré pattern is a result of taking a photo of a laptop screen; the laptop was rather busy at the time.) Mac Continue reading Time travel in Mac OS X
Seems suspicious. Don’t believe me? Try it yourself. Siri conspiracy (full size).
Apple is very fond of naming Mac OS X after the top predator in North America. So fond, in fact, that they did it more than once: Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma), Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Apple also Continue reading Who can resist a cute kitten?