Two deaths in the past twenty-four hours to report. Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, Rendezvous With Rama, and a wealth of other science fiction, has died at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 90. I read a great deal of Clarke’s science fiction when I was younger. 2010 was amazing. I liked ImperialContinue reading “On Arthur C. Clarke and Anthony Minghella”
Daily Archives: March 18, 2008
On Spreadsheet Fun
At work yesterday I started working on a large-ish spreadsheet project. It’s for an annual catalog. In one department, there’s four thousand lines of items to be arranged. Headers inserted. Item names cleaned up. Four thousand lines. It’s not tedious. Maybe a little mind-numbing at times. It’s mostly in order. That’s the worst kind ofContinue reading “On Spreadsheet Fun”