Billionaires In Space and My First Computer
When I was 9 years old, I got my first computer, a Commodore VIC-20. It was nothing by today’s standards, with 3 kilobytes of memory and a 1 megahertz CPU, and even then it cost $299 in 1982, which is about $850 today. It was a surprise gift from a friend of my father, a…
Is the Post-Pandemic World an “Ableist Hellhole”? How I Nearly Became Roadkill on a Routine Trip to the Doctor.
Recently, Ryan O’Connell, the star and creator of the Netflix series Special, described to the Guardian how he felt that he had been born into an “ableist hellhole”. I’ve been following O’Connell in the news recently as he, like me, has a mild case of what can be a severe disability (Cerebral Palsy in his…
Visions From Schrödinger’s Box – What Kind of a Name For a Blog is That?
In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to highlight the strangeness of quantum physics. He imagined a box, inside of which was a cat. Also in the box was a radioactive atom, which was being monitored by a Geiger counter. The Geiger counter was connected to a hammer which would crush a vial…
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