Mar 28
I stood on the threshold of the hotel room in April, 1995. Mike Weksler, then technical editor of Computer Gaming World, pushed me gently into the room. We’d just crashed the private suite of a secretive company developing a new type of chip to accelerate 3D graphics for home PCs. The company’s name: Rendition. What …
Jan 27
Nathan Edwards, once an editor at Maximum PC, put up a tweet recently that almost read like a Zen koan: “*buys a thing* this is great, now i’ll be happy [six months later] all my things are making me sad *gets rid of things* i need new things” It’s possible Nathan was talking about consumerism …
Mar 07
The Lady In White
The lady in white appeared on the snowy slope, maybe 30 feet away, maybe 300 feet. The swirling snow and fog brought contrast down to almost zero, which made distance estimation chancy at best. Despite losing my glasses in the snowy wasteland behind me, I could make her out perfectly: a woman, dressed in a …
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