The greatest treasure is hope. The greatest treason is false hope. The greatest tragedy is no hope at all.
Author Archives: Shawn
Sentry
It started out on the trajectory of being a normal Tuesday. Stan clocked in at his job at the photomat, put on his smock, mixed up the morning’s chemistry, pulled the rolls of undeveloped film and job tickets from the basket. Birthday parties, vacations at Yosemite, smiles in front yards. Then a cold gaze struck …
Screwdriven
Several screwdrivers later is not the time to reflect on inflection points in your life. One wrong mental turn, and I’m back in ’94~’95 thinking about all those times my academic advisors and professors tried to steer me right, before they held up their palms. Back when the murk of having my head down in …
C Tape
Currently working up a project that I’ve finally gained some momentum on. A year ago I set out to learn C, and my rationale for doing so was to write a program that could take all these computer tapes I have from the various computers I had in the late 80’s and decode their audio …
Goodbye Evolution
I have a confession. I’ve stopped believing in Evolution. I don’t know how it happened, but it slowly evolved (or devolved) into one shitpile of an email/calendar/groupware application. The latest version packaged with Ubuntu is slower and buggier than ever. It will occasionally crash while using it (some of the controls in the configuration panel …