It's a Gas!

If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better place.

That’s just one of the many lessons learned during my recent — successful! — project to transform my old, nonfunctioning gasoline-powered generator into something much better.

Of Visions, Dents and A Score and Five Years

Twenty-five years ago today, the lights turned on here at OFB. We were going to help the Linux Desktop revolution happen. We’re not there yet, but it has been an interesting ride.

Too Late Smart

My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.

The Promise of Self-Driving Translation

A controversy at a Christian publication this week gives us an unusual twist on the AI debate. The great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas and self-driving cars now have something in common.

After the Summer

My friends Pat and Bobby visited briefly over the weekend.

I met them when Pat and I were in ninth grade and we both shot Miranda cameras. The last time I saw Pat, George W. Bush was president; the last time I saw Robert, Richard Nixon was. Pat now lives in Lithuania. Bobby doesn’t.