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I write at Mimsy Were the Borogoves on politics, technology, and programming for all.

I studied Psychology at Cornell University and guitar at the Musicians Institute of Technology. I have appeared in at least one bad movie from the eighties and participated in at least one ill-fated pre-Internet hypermedia startup.

I am the author of The Dream of Poor Bazin and 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. I’ve also collected the recipes of Chicago and IGA chef Eddie Doucette in Tempt Them with Tastier Foods.
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Jerry Stratton I’ve been researching computer culture in the late seventies/early eighties, and reading a lot of old BASIC books. There were so many collections like…moreI’ve been researching computer culture in the late seventies/early eighties, and reading a lot of old BASIC books. There were so many collections like “BASIC Computer Games” and “24 Tested, Ready-to-Run Programs in BASIC” and “57 Practical Programs & Games in BASIC”. I wanted to read such a book today, using modern scripting languages and the advanced abilities of the Macintosh. Since the book I wanted to read didn’t exist, I wrote it.(less)
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Reichenau Gap

Reichenau Gap is just past London on the way to Junction. It’s a view of hills, because that’s what the gap is through.
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Ludwig von Mises
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
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Samuel G. Freedman
“A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that’s what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.”
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Victor Davis Hanson
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)”
― Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

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“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

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