Follow up on this post: It’s just remarkable that, in the midst of a largely “fortified bunker” style reaction to 9/11, people’s notion of crime has become utterly unmoored from reality. If you constantly confront people with the seeming need for Fort Knox security at every moment, they’ll begin to think that things are far worse than they are. And that opinion has real consequences. None of which are very productive…
Huh, Bukowski and I were using the same computer in the early 90s…
Charles Bukowski received a Macintosh IIsi computer and a laser printer from his wife, Linda. The computer utilized the 6.0.7 operating system and was installed with the MacWrite II word processing program. By January 18 of the next year, the computer was up and running and so, after a brief period of fumbling and stumbling, was Bukowski. His output of poems doubled in 1991.
Good old 6.0.7. The classic with just a splash of color. Huzzah! What a step up that computer felt like on moving from my old Macintosh SE. The “si” part of the name, by the by, stood for “small integrated” if my memory serves me correctly: smaller case (than a standard Macintosh II, which had dual disk drives, an HD, and lots of slots for cards), integrated video (the II line had, up to that point, required a separate video card purchase which, at the time, seemed vaguely insane). The magnificent follow-on to it, the IIci, was merely “compact.” The later IIfx went blue…
These are all pretty awesome…
Lemkin 