Boston Drivers
My Dad owned and drove his own taxicab from 1952 to 1956. The first month I was in graduate school in 1973 Mom and Dad came to visit. It wasn’t long before Dad figured out how bad Boston drivers can be. “If I lived here, I’d get an old car and boy, would I have […]
How much oil does it take to bring you your water?
Probability Zero
Thirteen years ago I wrote my one and only effort at fiction. Analog, the science fiction magazine, had a feature of very short stories called “Probability Zero”. I do not know WHY I never submitted it, but I have just come across it among my old papers and have decided to publish it myself here. […]
Taxes Fight Fires
Why wasn’t Newfoundland part of the Canadian Federation until 1949?
Canadian Confederation was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867. On March 31, 1949, it became the 10th and most recent province to join the Canadian Confederation as “Newfoundland”. How’s this for […]
Philip’s Luddite Museum
In descending order: EEPROM 8″ floppy disk 5 1/2″ floppy disk 3 1/4″ floppy disk Compact Disk Hard Drive platter