Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 37
June 13, 2020
My Car My Abortion
“Let me drink and drive.”
June 10, 2020
Convert PCBASIC code to TRS-80 Extended Color BASIC
If you have a book of code written in PCBASIC, it usually isn’t hard to convert it to other Microsoft BASICs, such as on the TRS-80 Color Computers.
June 3, 2020
How many fingers, America?
The Orwellianization of the left continues.
June 2, 2020
Mitt Romney Day 2020: Coronavirus Calvinball
The competition for the Mitt Romney Day award in 2020 became dangerously competitive come March, as contestants worked hard to kill the most jobs, the most small businesses, the most lives. But there can be only one winner.
May 30, 2020
A manual for superBASIC
I’ve improved superBASIC and also made a short manual available on Amazon and most e-bookstores.
May 27, 2020
Growth does not pay for itself
Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
May 23, 2020
The missing indexes
Whoever decided that cookbooks don’t need indexes was never stuck hungry at one o’clock in the morning with nothing but a pepper, a tomato, and a couple of cloves of garlic.
St. Mary’s Altar Society Cookbooks
The missing index for the St. Mary’s Altar Society cookbooks from 1976 through 1981.
May 20, 2020
Rudyard Kipling: The Humility of the Plague Doctor
Charts and graphs are not science. You can get charts and graphs with astrology and biorhythms. Computers can model scientific superstition just as well as they can model real theories. Bloodletting is superstition even if its done in the name of a computer model.
May 16, 2020
The Jurassic Park shutdown
You know what else was opened before it was ready?
