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Mr. Guilt posted The Magic Stick, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Slide Rule | Sep 29, 2008
I've posted of my interest in slide rules before (I blame Asimov, and an outdated-even-in-the-eighties book found in my high school library). Occasionally useful, I share this article's amazement that we were able to get things to the moon and back with a few pieces of wood.
Mr. Guilt posted Mourning USENET | Jul 31, 2008
USENET was forums before there were forums, blogs before blogs. It was how I first encountered the Internet. Much of the Internet culture you know today--from obsessions with TV shows ("X-Files") to smilies ( )--started there. I haven't actually used it in a while, favoring forums (in part due to...
