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“Gives us the nice bright colors,  Gives us the greens of summers, Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.” -Paul Simon from the song Kodachrome
Unfortunately, when I started scanning my Dad’s Kodachrome slides from our trip to California in 1967,  I discovered Kodachrome’s dirty little secret.  At first I thought the slides had [...]

Recently while catching up on the MoonViews LOIRP (mentioned previously here I noticed that project head Dennis Wingo had given a presentation to the Mountain View Hacker Dojo.
If you’ve not heard of a Dojo before, it is a Japanese word meaning literally “Place of the Way”.  The term is usually associated with places where young people [...]

I’ve always thought the term Rock Opera described two things that belonged together only in the most twisted of contexts.  Add to that a narcissistic “hero” called White Gold and place him in a whitewashed world called Milquarious,  and apparently you’ve got something the California Milk Producers Board can get behind to propel the “Got [...]

I’m sure many of my FaceBook friends think I’m being curmudgeonly (if there IS such a word!) but despite the temptation to be cute, I always reject invitations to get added to birthday calendars, accept hugs, or find out what color crayon I am. Here’s why:
I will admit that I found enough value in [...]