Adventures in Computer Science: Monopoly board computer

Yesterday, Bear was caught in a bind because he didn’t have a computer to run the Champions Online beta. He didn’t know that he was standing on a computer — the Monopoly board itself. Before World War II, computers weren’t machines, they were a profession. Rooms of people-computers, usually women, would perform calculation after calculation … Read more

People I don’t like much anymore.

A little list of people I don’t like as much as I used to. #1: GENJER for addicting me to this STUPID KOREAN SITCOM, GOONG. Gah it’s so addicting. Must be her revenge for me getting her into the IT Crowd…

Slow Glass

Researches in Surrey, England, have discovered how to slow light down and trap it in glass. I was immediately reminded of a story by one of the great Irish science fiction writers, Bob Shaw, in his “Light of Other Days”; Slow Glass was glass that took months or years to pass light from one side … Read more