kpgraham

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by kpgraham 1y ago
The first cyberpunk novel I read was True Names by Rudy Rucker. John Shirley has been called 'patient zero of cyberpunk' for his novel Eclipse. (I published a collection of Cyberpunk stories called Error Message Eyes Release 3.0 a
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by kpgraham 1y ago
Anyone who drives faster than you is a jerk. Anyone who drives slower is an idiot.
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by kpgraham 1y ago
Harp player here. When I first started playing, I had a Gindick's book, Country and Blues Harmonica For the Musically Hopeless. This was maybe 35 years ago. I would recommend that book and the tape (cd? mp3?) that comes with it, for be
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by kpgraham 2y ago
Howie the Crab was a weirdly warm place on social media. The daily cute pictures and videos of a pet land crab attracted hundreds of thousands of followers. The funny hats, visiting squirrels, a hedgehog, and friendly narrative always made
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by kpgraham 2y ago
Damn! One of my old books can be found in the Anna's Archive search. The book has been out of print for years. I pity the Meta users who get results based on something that I wrote. (Check Anna's for 'Keith P. Graham', a
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by kpgraham 2y ago
I got work with a Xerox Star when I had a job at Western Union. It was wonderful. It took many years for Mac and Windows to catch up.
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by kpgraham 3y ago
I have always thought that Dylan showed up drunk, and they started late, so he could sober up a bit. It was New Year's Eve, 1971.
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by kpgraham 3y ago
I was there. It started three hours late. They showed a samurai movie with subtitles while we waited. My GF was sick from all the smoke. Dylan seemed drunk. But it is a fantastic album!
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by kpgraham 3y ago
It used to be possible to make a radio receiver out of a diaper pin and a blue razor blade. The coating on the blade acted like a crystal. You needed a cheap pair of headphones or a tiny transistor radio speaker. I made one when I was a kid
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by kpgraham 3y ago
Same here. In the 1950s and 1960s, I never saw any deer near where I live. Now they are a nuisance animal.
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by kpgraham 4y ago
In the early 1980s, I got a job at Western Union (the old telecom company, not the thing it became). I was programming special reports in 4GL languages like RAMIS and MARK IV plus a little COBOL, and I was asked at one point to see if I cou
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by kpgraham 4y ago
I repair tube guitar amplifiers from time to time, and I cringe when I see the 50L6 power tube and the 35Z4 rectifier. These tubes light up like lightbulbs, and run so hot that the amplifier case is often charred near them. The chassis show
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by kpgraham 4y ago
I always felt that Tom Bombadil was filler in order to bridge events between Crick Hollow and the Prancing Pony. Tolkien had already written The Adventures of Tom Bombadil as a separate piece with Goldberry and Old Man Willow. He just dropp
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by kpgraham 4y ago
https://ErrorMessageEyes.com Error Message Eyes Release 2.0 A Programmer's Guide to the Digital Soul Twenty-four Science Fiction Stories of Computers, Robots, Programs, and Algorithms. From artificial intelligence to the mo
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Free: Error Message Eyes Release 2.0(errormessageeyes.com)
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by kpgraham 5y ago
I am first mentioned 5/2/89. I was having fun writing MASM programs and released about 50 freeware programs around then. I used bulletin boards rather than Usenet back then. Usenet access usually required a toll call. https:&#x2F
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by kpgraham 5y ago
A beekeeper here. 1. Bees have only been kept in flat frames for less than 200 years which would not be enough time to select for such a specific trait. 2. Domestic bees that swarm and find homes in hollow trees or gaps in houses form blobb
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by kpgraham 5y ago
20 years ago I bought CThreePO.com hoping to sell it to a Star Wars fan. Nobody wanted it. I still own it. I used it to host my essays and blog about science fiction. It is now hosted on my home machine and the things that used PHP no long
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by kpgraham 5y ago
While cleaning up my basement I found a box of 8" disks. These date back to when I had 2 5110s running in my living room one year. I wrote AR software for a liquor distribution company. They heated the whole house when I had both runn
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by kpgraham 5y ago
I programmed MASM in the 1990s and found myself deciding exactly where to put the 90H bytes in order to make the code work. It is good to see this stuff.
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by kpgraham 6y ago
The first FORTRAN programs that I wrote were a version called FORTRAN WITH FORMAT that ran on an old 1401. This was 1969. The compiler booted from an old dogeared card deck and somewhere around the middle of the deck there was a bent card.
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by kpgraham 6y ago
In my senior year of high school (1968-69) Mike Sivy (Yes that Michael Sivy) and I tried to build some components of a digital computer out of military surplus relays. We took the bus and the subway down to Canal Street in NYC and bought a
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by kpgraham 6y ago
"Mice lie and monkeys exaggerate" is a well known truism in research.
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by kpgraham 6y ago
I am a blues guy. Sure, electron conductive bacteria are cool, but not as cool as Muddy singing "I've got my mojo working".
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by kpgraham 6y ago
I saw the title and thought that it was about Muddy Waters and was disappointed when I clicked through. BTW. The Electric Mud album was recorded using Muddy's regular band and then the psychedelic tracks were remixed in. If you listen
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by kpgraham 6y ago
In 2015 I took a contract job with a large team at Verizon because I am an old man and know both Java and COBOL. The idea was to replace COBOL code with Java. The Java ran on IBM iron that was similar to the existing COBOL system. The COBOL
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by kpgraham 7y ago
As a beekeeper who loses half his hives every year, I can definitely say that Colony collapse is caused by varroa mites. You can easily see them on the bees. I have tried all kinds of treatments for varroa.I don't want to argue with th
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by kpgraham 7y ago
This mode was well known in the mid 80s. I wrote a shareware demo of the super color mode in masm that swirled and formed patterns. This had to be around 86 or 87. (That code is sitting on an old mfm disk that I can't read). It was a f
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by kpgraham 7y ago
I am typing this on a Model M. I wrote my first program in 1969 and I have used every kind of keyboard since. I bought four Model Ms, new in the box, about 10 years ago for $7 each. I expect them to last for the next 20 years (if I live tha
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by kpgraham 7y ago
This was my bible for many years. We called it POOP (Principles Of OPeration. I loved assembler on the 360 and the 370. I learned Assembly Language by cross listing my COBOL programs and using POOP to find out what the op codes meant.

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