Does Not Compute
Happy June. This is the thirtieth issue of Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit — it’s just like all those other email newsletters, except it doesn’t get outside much these days.
Back-to-back months of logging 12-hour+ days in the computer mines — deprived of fresh air and natural light, subsisting on nothing but Slack notifications and Google Docs — has me a bit strung out, even more than usual.
Blargh (Part 2)
It’s been a month. So all you get is a reprint of a poem about too much computer.
“16-bit Intel 8088 Chip”
By Charles Bukowski
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
(Via Kottke.)
Other rabbit holes
It’s not early anymore. Memorial Day was less than a week ago, the weather still feels more like a drawn-out spring than the beginning of summer, and there are more than a hundred games left on the schedule — but Chad Finn is ready to declare another Red Sox season another dud. (And he’s probably right.)
I want no one else to succeed. “It’s 11 years ago, I’m in a massive university Intro to Psychology class. Everybody in my 250-person lecture is freaking out because it’s the last class before the exams and none of us are ready. Professor says, ‘You know what, you guys seem stressed. I’m just gonna give all of you a 95%, blanket across the board — but you have to vote unanimously on it.’” This is why we can’t have nice things.
The most dangerous writing app. “You write, or your words get erased.” Maybe instead of AI, this is what I need to help me get my work done faster.
And that’s it for this month’s edition. Have a good one.
jf