An actual demo video for BeOS! I remember reading a lot of magazine articles about it, and I tried their x86 downloadable version in the later era of BeOS when they were flailing around for an alternate market, but this is the first time I’ve seen video promotional material for it.

Some thoughts:

Baroque metal.

I’m on vacation, so naturally I have spent the past few hours thinking intensely about math.

Mostly what I’ve been thinking is, gosh I am even worse at geometry now than I was when I was a teenager and actually knew math.

On some emotional level I’m still convinced that an Iomega Jaz drive would solve all my computing woes, and unfortunately there’s no amount of USB flash storage that will help with that.

Did mixed nuts ever actually come in cans that looked like the ones full of spring-loaded snakes?

I realize I have the privilege of not needing to market my online presence, but I don't want a new “global town square.” I've spent the past decade feeling a little stressed by the idea of being in the town square. I want to go to the park and watch the birds and play with the dogs.

Music to solve mysteries to.

You know, for being a writer constantly surrounded by murder, that Jessica Fletcher really has her life together.