Family Life

I learned to program on a computer like this one. It’s a Texas Instruments TI99/4A, popular in 1981. My high school acquired a lab-full of these, and I signed up for the very first class. I programmed in BASIC, which was about the only programming language available to home computers at the time, and in [...]

I was washing my four-year-old’s hands for dinner tonight when he cheerfully said,
- “Daddy, I know a new trick that you don’t know.”
- “Really Joel? What’s that?”
- “I can lick my snot!”
Why oh why did I have to ask? Being exceptionally slow and not yet having learned my lesson, I blurted out,
- “So how do [...]

Ahh! It’s Friday, it’s sunny and warm, it’s Spring! What a wonderful afternoon to spend in the yard, enjoying the cool, gentle breeze, listening to birds chatter in the trees. I went out with my camera and tripod to get some pictures of the trees newly budded. From time to time clouds would pass before [...]