San Diego Macintosh User Group Resources
As President, Secretary, and journal editor for the San Diego Macintosh User Group, I wrote quite a few articles for: Resources and will make those available as I find them.
Category Archives: books
Yokosuka Computer Rag newsletters
Yokosuka Computer Club (Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan) needed a newsletter, so I created one, the Yokosuka Computer Rag It was originally typed on a TRS-80 Model III and printed on a daisy-wheel printer. After getting a Macintosh and an Continue reading Yokosuka Computer Rag newsletters
Patterns of the Fantastic II
Patterns of the Fantastic II is a volume of essays and papers presented in the scholarly track of the World Science Fiction Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1983. I was in the process of moving to Japan a the Continue reading Patterns of the Fantastic II
License agreement as literature
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
Visual BASIC in Romanian
What do you do if you need a quick reference to Visual BASIC and the only available reference is in Romanian? Let us consider this logically: First off, you do not wonder, “Why is there a Visual BASIC manual in Continue reading Visual BASIC in Romanian
Tattered Cover: a bookstore
Tattered Cover is a bookstore in Denver, Colorado. A real, brick-and-mortar (or possibly reinforced concrete and drywall) store selling physical books made of paper and cloth. It isn’t part of some huge corporate conglomerate, with ties into publishing companies and Continue reading Tattered Cover: a bookstore
National Book Festival
For the first time, the National Book Festival was held inside the air-conditioned confines of the Washington Convention Center. In recent years, the Festival was held on the National Mall, at the height of summer, in various hot and humid Continue reading National Book Festival
Digital scrapbook II
“Lines of Equal Latitude and Longitude,” http://basementgeographer.blogspot.com/2010/11/lines-of-equal-latitude-and-longitude.html This is a cultural artifact of how we draw maps, but still interesting. President Obama using a MacBook Pro to answer citizen questions on Twtter. Note the use of a wireless broadband modem Continue reading Digital scrapbook II