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Nov 24, 2012

...At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists...
...At that time [the 1960s], Bell Laboratories scientists projected that computer speeds as high as 30 million floating-point calculations per second (megaflops) would be needed for the Army's ballistic missile defense system. Many computer experts -- including a National...

Shit Happens.
Shit Happens.

backups: always in season, never out of style.
backups: always in season, never out of style.

"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about...
"There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearence; he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an actor, and clad in immaculate linen." -- H.L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They...
Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized...

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