Archive for June, 2005

Blog comment logic…

Monday, June 6th, 2005

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
—Ray Bradbury
When John Dvorak visited my workplace, I was introduced as “the Mac guy.”—the split second double-take on his part was funny. But he was amused that a coworker had programmed an old Apple //c we had lying around [...]

Buying photography equipment

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

In 2001, I tried to purchase an Epson 1280 I found at a good price. Instead of the product, I got a “hard sell” over the phone trying for ink and a USB cable at an outrageous price—they didn’t want to ship me just the 1280. I had them cancel my order and went [...]