Uncategorized ⁽¹⁷⁵⁾

I had a laugh today. I took my younger daughter to the park today. They have a tire swing there. Megan really like to ride it. When we first got there I pushed Megan a little, she likes to go fast. Then I sat down…

SDLMESS inherited it's keyboard handling code from mainline MESS. Mainline MESS uses the Scroll Lock key to toggle between User Interface modes. On the Mac, SDLMESS has a conditional compile to use the Insert key instead of the other key. This worked well before the…

When I hold down the shift and press the eject key on my Macintosh keyboard I notice the DVD tray slides out at a tenth of the speed it usually does.

My first computer, the Color Computer, came with a variety of keyboard commonly called a chicklet keyboard. The name comes from the shape of the individual keys. I always liked the keyboard. When I recived my CoCo 3 I shipped off my old CoCo to…

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…