Husband, Father, Gamer, Nerd

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Me in the winter of 1979, halfway through my sophomore year of high school. I’m taking a sheet-rocking class and can’t stop coughing and sneezing.

    What can I transfer to?

    Well we have this new class about computers?

    I dunno what the fuck that means but I can’t keep sheetrocking.

    I walk into a room full of DecWriters and teletypes.

    To connect to the computer you dial this phone number when you hear this weird noise you push the phone into these rubber cups.

    You talk to that computer using this thing called BASIC. You can actually get the computer to do things!

    I remember my first guess a number program, and printing it out to show my dad. He didn’t understand it but thought it was cool I did.

    45 years later I’m still making computers do things through code. All thanks to BASIC.










  • We had just moved from Portland to Denver, and were trying new restaurants. One Sunday we ordered delivery from a local Chinese place that had good reviews. Food came, we ate and all was good for a couple of hours.

    Then my wife said "I think I’m gonna puke* and dashed for the bathroom. Being the good husband, I followed her to hold her hair while she worshipped the porcelain god.

    She had barely got done emptying the content of her stomach, when I literally had to shove her out of the way to emoty mine.

    We were both miserable for about 36 hours.