Time and health issues got between me and my efforts at doing something special for my favorite holiday, and now I’m out of time. Enjoy your holiday, however you choose to celebrate it. Your humble author begging for loose change in front of the crypt of the founders of Burdines, a recently-departed Florida department store [...]
Umberto Eco in 1994: The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ratio studiorum of the [...]
“When I first started telling stories and writing them down as I child I didn’t give the sources of my inspiration much thought. Stories just poured out of my head constantly, an unstoppable torrent of improbable events and characters. I hadn’t yet become aware of the limitations the world tries to impose on creativity, and that we impose on ourselves.”