Tag: coot-proofing
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Mark of aristocracy
The Buttcoin reddit notices a year-old picture of Bankman-Fried speaking to his political slaves in a congressional meeting. His shoelaces are weirdly tangled up, just barely making it through the holes. He responded to the earlier twitter thread by saying that the shoes “came that way”. Well, okay. Shoes do sometimes come with the laces…
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Impressive and depressive
Now that I’ve got the dull parts of the new courseware version out of the way (switching out images to adjust for changes in DRM) I’m returning to the fun part. I’m reviving and modernizing some complex programs I wrote in the ’90s, so they can be presented as ‘accessories’ to the courseware. The impressive…
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Oldoleth
The latest issue of Collectible Auto arrived today, with a nicely illustrated article on Buick in the ’30s. Auto writers assume every reader knows the basics of engines and transmissions and suspensions and differentials. Writers will explain unfamiliar antique technologies like sleeve valves, wood-framed bodies, magnetos, and free-wheeling. They always get free-wheeling wrong. This explanation…
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More chintzy
Following on Zuck’s chintzy metaverse. Substack is also chintzy in an obvious front-facing piece of UI. It’s not hard to adjust singular/plural to the number. I do it in courseware, on the countdown of quiz questions: If one creaky old dude with near-zero budget and near-zero JS skills can do it, surely Substack with its…
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Biden on a bike
Politics is NOT my department, but being old is my department. The commentators on Biden’s bike fall seem to be missing a point. Most old men shouldn’t be riding a bike. (I used to be a serious biker, and gave up at 36 when my heart started to warn me.) An old president, whose mind…
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