Author Archives: kimerer_brian

Coffee

Posted on February 16, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Now that we are in a cold snap (Old Man Winter has arrived!), DG decided to stay in and sit down with a mug of nice, steamy coffee. “DG”, I said, “are you aware that when you do that you … Continue reading →

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Rain

Posted on February 11, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG is sick of all this rain. He really wanted to build a snowman before the crocuses bloom. I told him that he could blame it on the Augernaut* You see, in that very first snow storm in early December, … Continue reading →

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Calculator

Posted on January 24, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Continuing on with our ancient computer theme, we went digging through the Computer Museum again and found another machine that we can use to calculate the comparison of our hit rate to the hit rate of The Google. That is … Continue reading →

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Computer Museum?

Posted on January 19, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Q: What the heck is this “computer museum” that you keep talking about? A: It’s just a bunch of junk that I have collected over the years that used to be useful for calculating stuff. For example, here is my … Continue reading →

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Suanpan

Posted on January 14, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG went rummaging through our Computer Museum again and came up with this old style Chinese abacus. This is a 2/5 Chinese abacus, called a “suanpan” 算盘. The 2/5 means that it has 2 beads on the top and 5 … Continue reading →

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Spring!

Posted on January 12, 2020 by kimerer_brian

How about these January temperatures? DG thinks that spring has arrived, and is taking full advantage of it. I’m not sure how to break it to him that he is about to be smitten by Old Man Winter.

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Stapler

Posted on January 5, 2020 by kimerer_brian

One of my Christmas presents this year was this really cool stapler. It’s a genuine Swingline stapler. DG took a liking to my stapler and ran off with it. Quite honestly, I am a tad afraid to go and take … Continue reading →

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HBD DG

Posted on January 1, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Today is DG’s 50th birthday. Yay! So we made a cake and put all 50 candles on it. DG is not happy about being 50 years old. Actually, he is quite grumpy about it. DG: I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on December 31, 2019 by kimerer_brian

DG is ready to rock and roll with the new year. I told him to be careful with that bubbly. He seems to be leaning a bit already. Happy New Year to all.

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Abacus

Posted on December 23, 2019 by kimerer_brian

I asked DG why he didn’t use the abacus to calculate our hit rate compared to The Google instead of the slide rule. We have an abacus in our computer museum, you know. Here is a photo of it. He … Continue reading →

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