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Steven M Scotten

50bookchallenge #1/50: <u>A B C et Cetera</u>, Alexander & Nicholas Humez

I admit I felt a bit ripped off when I first started to read A B C et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet. I bought it thinking it would actually be a history of the glyphs in the alphabet, the origins of the particular letterforms we

Today's run

9.05 miles in 1:29:55 All I ask these days is to do better than 10 minutes per mile, and I (barely) hit that today. This is a great result for me. I haven’t run more than 5.25 miles in over a year. More details at

The IP Broadband revolution continues

Battlestar Galactica on the Sci-Fi Channel is pretty much my only reason for having cable service. Sure, I occasionally watch OnDemand movies, but I really hate watching anything good in low-res pan-and-scan. Considering that I’m dumping over $120 each month on some really unsatisfactory services, I’m considering downgrading.

Lovely

The $10 SCSI CD-ROM I bought from eBay a few days ago is already dead. Time to look for another $10 SCSI CD-ROM, I guess. It may be a while before this SGI box gets running.

I am a bit vain

A young lady came up to me before the race this morning and asked where she knew me from. Yeah, yeah, “do I know you from somewhere?” Whatever. Actually she did sort of look familiar, but we couldn’t find any common references. I talked to her about what I

I'm ba-a-a-ack

2005 was a year where I barely logged a hundred miles, the last two months of which I ran discouragingly over ten minute miles, one run even being over eleven minutes per mile. For the last few weeks I took myself off the road and went into the gym to

Progress in the SGI Resurrection Project

ebay is my friend. It looks as though one of the problems that I was encountering is that the external SCSI CD-ROM that I was using for the installation was dying and eventually dead. For $10 I got a 32x SCSI CD-ROM and it took about 90 minutes to replace.