Moved to Ask Leo! – Why shouldn’t I forward this email asking me to “forward to everyone I know”?
Technically I’m retired, and have been since 2001.
The problem is technology has always been both my profession and my passion. When I had a real job, I was doing what I loved to do and getting paid for it.
Now things are a little different.
I’ve got my fingers in so many pies. Some days it feels I’m busier in “retirement” than I was working for someone else.
The movie Colossus: The Forbin Project had a big impact on me, even before I’d ever touched a computer. I bring that up now, because there’s a line in the movie when the U.S. super-computer discovers there’s another, equivalent super-computer in the U.S.S.R.. It displays a message “There Is Another System”. That came to mind … Read more
What does it mean when what I want to say is “yes, I’m creating a good old-fashioned blog”. Old fashioned? Is blogging old-fashioned already? Whatever. Ask Leo! has a fairly fixed format, and I want it to be about getting tech information out. I limit my opinions there to the issues at hand, and even … Read more
Lurch came to us in August of 1996, and we’ve had many questions about him since. Lurch was part of a feral litter, found by our veterinarian’s daughter in an empty lot. The mother was taken by animal control, but the litter was left behind. One by one, all were adopted to friends and clientele, … Read more
Our home in the Hollywood Hills area of Woodinville.