Dude, Bert and Ernie could have travelled BACK IN TIME from this event!

"If we don't export food, mostly grains, the world starves." Maybe back in the 1960s and 1970s, but this is a myth or urban legend in the 21st Century. See for example this. If anything, we are taking corn OUT of the export market and driving up world food prices with our insane tax subsidies on corn to produce fuel ethanol.

Next they'll have to prove that a Raspberry Pi is not a Genetically Modified Organism.

Helium has gained a lot of traction in recent years as the suicide vehicle of choice. It has progressively become more central in every update of Final Exit.

A self-inflicted 22LR to the head killed my mother in 1979. A friend of mine had a daughter that used a .38 on herself and is a vegetable in a nursing home. You never know.

In November the $25 Raspberry Pi computer will become available. Check it out.

Invite, please: rickyjames at gmail etc etc - Thx!!!

VB6 is an American classic just like a 64 Mustang. Forget OOP and just git er done. Its back to the future and I couldn't be happier. Welcome back old friend!

Friday is where Fox sends top-notch SF like Firefly to die (sniff). Fringe is toast.

It certainly applied to how the Borg were handled in the star Trek franchise.

Funny thing, I was reading an article on this just the other day, talking about how object oriented programming in general and Java in particular lacked the clarity ond straightforwardness of declarative languages like my all time favorite, Visual Basic 6. Laugh if you want, I don't care, with VB6 I understood what was going on and could Get Things Done. Google "criticism object oriented programming" and dig in on the real problem.

Long before I was playing Super Star Trek in BASIC, I was playing nim on a Digicomp-1 that was my first computer. Wish I still had that thing. Maybe I'll rebuild it one day...

LOL, I see that Basic Computer Games was printed in 1978. In 1974, I was typing it in directly from an issue of David Ahl's groundbreaking mid-1970s magazine Creative Computing, which he compiled into the book several years later. David Ahl is the reason I became a geek, long before there was even a TRS-80 to play with and I had to IMAGINE what the CC program listings would do becasue I didn't have a computer to run them on. Thanks, Dave!!!

...they'd never end... Sigh. I remember David Ahl's Basic Computer Games with such nostalgia, spending my first weeks in late 1974 as a freshman typing in SUPER STAR TREK onto paper punch cards to run on the IBM360 at University of Tennessee. As a county bumpkin coming into the land of Oz where there were Real Actual Computers I could work with for the first time, I though I had Entered The Future. Little did I know that the future had only begun, and continues today. Probably will continue into tomorrow, too.

I don't give a flying frack about "The Narrative" as you obviously do. I care about having the facts available to get to The Truth. I still remember that ten seconds of footage from an actual event is more important that ten hours of crap spewed from talking heads on Fox News. It's people that listen to the latter that issue orders to destroy the former. Their priorities (and yours) are mixed up, not mine.