When I was an 8-year-old kid, my grandfather called and invited me to listen to his new record. It was a vinyl recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I don’t remember which version was or what orchestra performed it, or which director was at the helm. All those details were meaningless for that 8-year-old […]
Category: Music
Things die… PCs eventually die. As with humans, this is a fact. No matter how much care we spend taking care of them or invest in upgrades, finally some vital component will fail, and the device will go to the heaven of nonfunctioning gadgets (trash). So, after 4 years of work, a mini-PC that I […]
“Space Oddity” was the first Bowie song that I heard, it was haunting, beautiful and otherwordly. I heard it while looking for new stuff for the “radio” that was my responsibility in high school in the early eighties. The’”white thin duke” trend and fad still had to come. In those years I was a weird, […]