A life in words

  • Learning C++

    I’€™m taking (actually, retaking) Computer Science 240 right now. So I’€™m learning C++. This is someting I’€™ve always wanted to do. I was maybe 10 years old when we got Turbo C++. My dad was the only one who knew how to use it, but still, I had fun playing with the “Heap Walker”€ program.…

  • I Cast Mine Pod at Thee!

    Lately I’€™ve been listening to the UbuntuOS podcast about the Ubuntu Linux distro. It’€™s a good show, for sure, though there’€™s a bit too much down time where the guys are just sitting there saying, “Yeah… uh… so linux is pretty cool, yeah….” It really does remind me of my conversations with my brother, but…

  • Amigote vuelve a levantarse la cabeza fea

    Ahhhhrrhrhrhrhhaarrrrhhhhhh! That’s the sound of a thousand joints popping and creaking as I stretch out my blogging muscles. Faithful reader (how can you be a faithful reader of a blog that never posts!?), surely you have observed that a burning VW van no longer graces the top of our beloved peasant kingdom. I did love…

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951), act 1