Bill, you old prankster you! That was a pretty hilarious thing you did to me the other morning. Almost as funny as your Soupy
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Miner Thoughts
Computer Terms you need to know
This month catches me without a story to tell. Of course I could have composed a fictitious yarn replete with intrigue and adventure about
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My Mac Magazine #36, April ’98
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or under a rock for the past several years you have probably heard of the meteorological phenomenon
Read MoreI suck!
Normally I don’t make a big deal out of nor do I beg readers for feedback on what I write in my little corner
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My Mac Magazine #34, Feb. ’98
Buried five stories underground in what has become known as Area 51 in the state of Nevada is a nondescript room manned and operated
Read MoreLiving In Virtual Reality
Gosh! Another year has come and gone. What the heck’s up with that? The millennium is fast approaching and I’m convinced that as it
Read MoreHow Duke Saved Christmas pt. 2
The meeting broke up and everyone left the room except Duke and Mrs. Claus. Mrs. C walked over to Duke, put her arm around
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For an untold number of years now, one Mr. Santa Claus of the North Pole, Planet Earth, has organized and partaken in an annual
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My Mac Magazine #31, Nov. ’97
PUBLISHERS NOTE: [The following is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are
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My Mac Magazine #30, Oct. ’97
For those of you who don’t know, I do all of my computin’ on a Performa 550 that was manufactured in October of 1994.
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My Mac Magazine #29, Sept. ’97
So what’s it gonna be: AppleSoft, MicroApple, SoftApple, MacinSoft, AppleMicro, MicroMaco, SoftMac, SoftIntosh, RottenApple, or KissMyApple? Hard to say but one thing is certain:
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My Mac Magazine #28, August ’97
Don’t you just hate it, when all that’s on TV are summer reruns? You’ve already seen them once, and now they want you to
Read MoreColdar Update
Two months ago, I told you about Coldar’s cordanna juice (cyanide gas) overdose and subsequent illness which nearly killed her. She blamed her illness
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My Mac Magazine #27, July
I had a conversation with my Macintosh the other day and although I had long suspected its independent nature and hard drive rebelliousness, I
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My Mac Magazine #26, June ’97
These Macintosh machines are pretty durable little suckers, ain’t they? I say this from experience as you’re about to find out. The other day
Read MoreColdar Update #1
This is where I bring you up-to-date concerning my ongoing correspondence with my now good friend and co-conspirator, Coldar. If you don’t know who
Read MoreHacking around the Internet & other dumb stuff!
What a wild and crazy place this information highway has become, huh? Can you name me any other place that has a more useless,
Read MoreMacInSpace
What you’re about to read could get me in a heap of trouble with the U.S. Government if they were to find out what
Read MoreThe Gorilla Benchmark Test
All this sniveling about who manufactures the better computer has finally driven me to prove, once and for all, who builds the most reliable,
Read MoreI did it!
This was the winter that broke the camel’s back, so-to-speak. At least for me it was. Driving my 80,000 pounds of tractor, trailer, and
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