There are still a few things which bring a naive sense of shocked astonishment to me whenever I experience them -- a church service in which the rituals of Dark Age superstition are performed without any apparent sense of incongruity in the participants -- a fat Soviet bureaucrat pontificating about bourgeois decadence -- a radical singing the praises of Robert Heinlein.

I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

The brain’s primary job is to reduce uncertainty in an ever changing world

A new volume asks, ‘Is the old man back again?’

“Um, yeah. realized at some point, like, oh, yeah, this is, this is familiar. You know, computing used to be fun. And then it sort of wasn’t fun anymore, but this is fun again. And as I thought about that, I realized that, you know, that the mouse is antisocial, The GUI is antisocial, So what’s that mean? you have a problem to solve and you solve it with the GUI. What do you have? A problem solved. But when you solve it with a command line interface in a scripting environment, you have an artifact. And all of a sudden that artifact can be shared with someone.”