Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 33

8 (bit) Days of Christmas: Day 111 (Dual Greeting Card)

Day 111 of the 8 (bit) days of Christmas is Joseph Kohn’s dual greeting card, from December 1984. How do you create text on a graphics screen that doesn’t accept the PRINT statement?

8 (bit) Days of Christmas

Eight images created on home computer from the early eighties.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

How still we see thee lie. Play this song on your Mac’s command line with the piano script.

Importing an index into Nisus

Nisus makes it very easy to import an externally-generated index into a document.

The Silver Blaze Media and the Gaslight Election

This isn’t just the Gaslight election, it’s the Silver Blaze election.

The lost tradition of unannounced visits

Once upon a time, if you were in the area of a friend, and you had extra time, you’d just drop in for a visit. You wouldn’t call first—phone calls were expensive. You wouldn’t text—there were no texts. You’d just show up. And you’d be even more likely to do this on holidays.

I have read a fiery gospel

“Be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet.” Written a hundred and fifty-nine years ago today, this rousing abolitionist song remains a fiery call for freedom from tyranny.

New, improved rcheck+ for Rainbow Magazine code

I’ve added several features to rcheck, including verifying the checksum against an expected checksum, and providing possible reasons for checksum discrepancies.

Only what Facebook wants you to see?

To spread darkness, Facebook reduces the distribution of content they don’t want you to see, about news that is very important to a functioning democracy.

The Donna Rathmell German Bread Machine Cookbook collection

Donna Rathmell German’s little cookbooks, from the Nitty Gritty collection, are a great companion to your bread machine and a great lesson in using bread machines to make bread.