Peter Hunt Welch's Blog, page 4

Winning the Internet

It's a big internet out there, and most of it is terrible. I thought I'd share some of my methods for fighting back as an aging pseudo-techie.


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Don't trust anyone who drinks out of their own brand.
Less is less here, and less is good. Keeping in touch with people: good. Knowing where ...

Coffee is Hard

Way back in the 80s, some people had a dream of combining the cutesy graphics of 80s visual games and the soul-crushing difficulty of 80s text adventures. And so Sierra On-Line created quest games.
Quest games started with a premise like "escape the wizard" or "escape the aliens" then forced you ...

Take Better Screenshots

In the post-nineties world, the screenshot has built an impenetrable fiefdom along the information trading routes between all sectors of business when one of them is in need of assistance. The screenshot is the holy grail of customer support, paradoxically both the first and last ditch attempts at ...

That Feeling When You Discover Someone You Know Is a Monster

It's the worst episode of "Where Are They Now?" when you find out your old family friend is a sociopathic abuser. If you haven't looked someone up in a decade, it's preferable to find out they're dead. If you haven't looked them up in decade, you don't honestly care if they're alive; finding out they're ...

A Brief Review of Reading The Wheel of Time at 38

I sometimes eat family-sized bags of Lays potato chips alone. It's not the best chip. But it's a chip. I know I should stop about a third of the way through, but the bag is still sitting there next to the cat, and one chip keeps going in after the other. It ceases to be a decision; I become a snack ...

It Takes a Monk

Much of the last three decades can be summed up with the fact that "Oriental Adventures" started life in 1985 as an acceptable title for a book on the shelves of most Mr. Paperbacks, and arrived at 2018 as something I really did not want my coworkers to see me typing into Google.
The reason I was ...

What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 4

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What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 3

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What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 2

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What It's Like to Be a Fake Extrovert, Part 1

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