I am in mourning for my small, desktop
“home” computer. I have separation anxiety.
I think about Bill Gates. I was working at
IBM slightly after he negotiated with them
to supply the disk operating system (DOS) he based
the Microsoft empire on by keeping ownership of
the code. The elephant couldn’t tap-dance.
If you think Windows is bad, you should have seen
TopView, the IBM version that got left behind
in the multitasking rat-race. I’m reading J. P. S. Brown’s
environment (The Enchanted Land), poor white trash and
Mexican bandits, and a range war with a syndicate of
Eastern business titans that own the banks and the courts
and the state legislature and law enforcement, stealing public lands
from indigenous ranching families. Calling them squatters.
In A Civil Action, the lawyers from Harvard
looked down on personal injury attorneys
with names like Schlictmann,
Machinations, chicanery, and barbed-wire fences.