College football begins in earnest tonight. (There was a Hawaii-Cal game sometime last week.) I’m pleased, but now it needs to be cool. I’d have put chili in the slow cooker this morning if it wasn’t going to be 85 degrees when SC/Vandy starts. I may make a pot of chili sometime this weekend anyway. … Read more
Most of my knowledge of Chicago, the band, has been of its competent-but-unremarkable pop music. “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”? Remember that one? That kicked off a dozen pop hits through the rest of the ’80s, all decent but none particularly memorable. I know of early Chicago, but only the biggest singles. So what did … Read more
I remember when 386 meant an Intel 80386-powered desktop computer, and it was blazingly fast and thousands of dollars. I also remember that in 1989, our controller Sam at Madison Books & Computers rated one. It was a Toshiba. Did you know they only stopped production of the 80386 microprocessor in 2007? It’s been a … Read more