Category: General

  • and not a drop to drink

    This, I presume, is why Amdahl was out there in the Gulf, hanging on at the trailing edge of the business: Big Blue was focussed on the big-ticket players, and a fading rival could still pick up some gigs on the fringes of its interests.

  • who loves ya, baby

    Signs that a) you’re getting old, and b) you don’t follow the news too closely: on seeing a picture of Jeff Bezos on the deck of his yacht, you think “whoa, I never realised Telly Savalas spent so much time at the gym”.

  • the pivot

    the pivot

    As the darkness gathers, it’s hard to see where the light might be coming from.

  • virtual mallrats

    A way to sell selling itself (infinite regress edition).

  • a bear of very little intelligence

    One wonders what sort of things those two discussed over their plausibly liquid lunches along the Strand?