I expect articles in The New Yorker to be thoughtful if biased, but I never expected this. The “blog” writer, Avery Johnson, tries to rewrite climate, educational history, and class history with this astounding intro to the article The Day-Camp Boom: “The beloved ritual of summer vacation is often said to have begun in agrarian … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Daily surfing failures
I went to Philips‘ site to compare their various headlamps for autos. I picked two for comparison. The results were: 12V versus 12.8V, and both were the same wattage. Oh, yeah. How about… Lumens? Color temp? Expected life? Lots of pretty Flash, though. Now I’m worried about that 0.8V! (Not really. There’s almost nothing 12.0V … Continue reading
digital lifestyle / linux / mint / ubuntu
Mint 14 Can’t Burn
After some struggles with a previous distro, I installed Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on my Desktop earlier this year, and couldn’t be more happy with it. It “just works”. Until today. Today I got a new laptop (yeah!) because my old one died (boo) and went to burn the latest, Mint 15, on the Desktop … Continue reading
