That explains a lot of things from my past.

Even after all these years since I read that book of yours I still chuckle when I recall your story of playing with the TOP SECRET stamp while visiting the office of an FBI Agent. Thanks for the memories.

I don't know anything about the Kobo app but have had several Kobo E-reader devices over many years. I always have Wi-Fi turned off on these devices. I sideload my books and so have no need for internet connectivity. They work fine without internet.

Those Borland packages of Turbo Pascal & Turbo C were nicely done. Very good documentation explaining all the functions and, as an added bonus, source code was included for ...er... something. It might be a chess game, a calculator, a spreadsheet, and maybe more that I can't remember. Nice memories.

...hazy memories. That machine was a grey G4 Mac, not a G3. Anyway...

My first experience with Ubuntu was when I installed it on a blue & white G3 Mac. I had a little experience with Yellow Dog linux but it didn't fully work on this Mac (don't remember the details) so I thought I'd try this Ubuntu thing I'd heard about. Easy install and everything worked - sound, video, all the rest. I was pretty happy with that setup.

Geeze... that's been a wile ago...

Geology, not geography... sheeesh

Anyway, as one example, at one point during construction one of the engineers was at the bottom of the cut and the land he was standing on rose six feet in five minutes.

For those with an interest the book, "Panama Fever" by Matthew Parker is an excellent book about the building of the canal with lots of insights about the challenges of the geography in that part of the world.

Dialup Unix shell acount. Browsing the web using Lynx; I preferred Pine for e-mail and Tin for Usenet news. And we had a short period of limited service while they upgraded their (5, I think) computers from SunOS to this hot new Solaris.

Man, it was like living in a Star Trek episode every time you heard that modem handshake.

I didn't use that but I was a big fan (and registered user) of 4DOS. Friend, you could feel the power.

I would think they could use a chemical marker which would then identify virtually any amount of cheese, not just a wheel. Although I suppose the makers would be reluctant to add anything like that for fear of affecting the flavor.

The crows in my neighborhood have learned to associate brief human visits with food deliveries like DoorDash. I recently watched a crow follow the letter carrier down the street, checking each porch for food after the carrier had moved on to the next house. Each mail stop, all the way down the street.

For a short time Amazon was doing local food delivery akin to Grubhub or Doordash. For whatever reason they gave up on that very quickly. I wonder what will happen with this scheme.

Were these test orders made at the same time of day? Weekday business hours or weekend?

The inverted pyramid in the martini glass shot by Burt Stern for the Smirnoff ad didn't hurt, either.