A Thanksgiving Tale from the Wild Wild East
We careened through streets, shrouded in darkness, packed into a grubby ersatz-Fiat 128, a Soviet-era knockoff. I was compressed, folded, and spindled into the back seat, a human shock absorber, a Dell Optiplex cradled in my arms. With only me between the PC’s steel case and the car’s [...]
Despite their “American” name, French fries are not French. Most people attribute their origin to Belgium. However, there is a bit of a controversy.
Some think that the “French” in French fries actually comes from the verb “frenched” — meaning to cut into thin strips. Why do I care — well, I like French fries, I [...]
Several years ago – during the Dot-Com crazy years, there was a company called DigitalConvergence. They were going to “revolutionize” marketing by linking barcodes in magazine advertising with online web sites. To participate in this revolution you had to have a barcode scanner (called a Cue Cat), be sitting near your PC, see something that [...]