In a Quaker State of Mind, or Why I Had Stopped Blogging
By and large, I don’t take truck with religion. Born and raised an avowed atheist, I had trouble understanding how it could be valuable — my knee-jerk reaction was that it does little more than narcotize. Maturation is a wonderful thing — understanding the colors, shading, textures of what’s out there. Part of that maturation [...]
All about the bass line
Growing up, one of the staples of household television viewing was Barney Miller, the classic 70s sitcom set in a police station. My dad was an early adopter of the VCR, which he’d use to tape the late-night syndication so that we could watch it with dinner the following day. We stopped watching BM around [...]
Interface Geekery
So, like an increasing number of folks I know, I’m a Switcher. I forsook the Wintel way for a 12″ PowerBook, and have been quite happy. Among the things that happy-makes me about OS X are the nifty shareware tools acolytes built for it. That was something I remember from being a Mac owner “back [...]
The Blog Is Back
Peterme.com is back on line. And while I had all sorts of high-falutin’ thoughts about how I wouldn’t blog again, I kept not getting around to the essay writing and other stuff I thought would take its place. I’m lazy, I guess. I did, however, accomplish one thing I wanted to do before returning to [...]
