tim lindner's personal blog

Sometimes people have a meta conversation about negotiating. Sometimes those same people talk about the carrot and stick method of negotiating. Those people really anger me. Mostly because the "carrot and stick" term is a bastardization of the proper term "carrot on a stick". Thankfully…

Oh, Dan Trachtenberg (regarding Episode #37), why did you have to dislike my favorite game! TRON Deadly Disks for the Intellivision is super fun. I really liked the arcade version of the game based off the TRON movie. The four mini games: Tank, Lightcycles, MCP…

My oldest daughter, Bethany, was very upset with us this Thanksgiving. She didn't want to sit at the kids table. At Twelve she was the oldest child during the occasion. As far as I know The Kids Table is an institution in this country just…

When I was much younger, I think around nineteen years old, I climbed half dome in Yosemite National park. I did it with my brother and sister. It was really fun. You don't have to be a hard-core rock climber to scale half dome. After…

I listen to a lot of Leo Laporte's podcasts. I really enjoy all of his work. But listening to his Windows Weekly podcast is becoming more and more difficult. Leo and his cohost sometimes talk about Windows Home Server. An OEM version of Windows designed…