Jim's Place

Several months ago, I made the switch to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my primary OS for my computing activities.

We went to the car show today hosted at the Strategic Air Command Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.

This was a good trip down memory lane for me.

When I was most actively reading comics in the 1970’s and early 1980’s comics with a space-bound characters or characters in science-fiction stories often piqued my interest.

I reviewed the previous Epic trade here.

Collects Detective Comics Annual #1, Green Arrow #1-8, Green Arrow Annual #1, The Question #17-18, The Question Annual #1, Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1-3 This was an impulse buy when I was in the shop not too long ago.

This review is based on the Kindle™ edition of the book.

This volume collects the first eleven issues of the series that began in 2018.

With quite the list of contributing creators : Collecting DEFENDERS (1972) #12-25, GIANT-SIZE DEFENDERS #1-4 and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) #6-7 - plus material from MYSTERY TALES #21, WORLD OF FANTASY #11 and TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) #9.

Shortly after I arrived on the planet, a television series appeared featuring a comic book character who would grow to be my favorite of them all.

7 Sep 2025 Nick Andrew contacted me with some Python-based utilities for manipulating CMD files.

In 2009, I was tinkering with the Windows multimedia subsystem and I wrote a short program to play MP3 audio files from the command-line ( cmdmp3.exe ).

My First Mac In July of 2012, I bought my first Macbook.

(The bulk of this post was originally written in June of 2012) In early 2012, I walked in the door of Krypton Comics in Omaha.

Originally published on: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:15:01 +0000 In my early days of computing, I used to read a lot of tech magazines.

I used to sell a command-line email utility that I had written for 32-bit implementations of Microsoft Windows.

Originally published on: Fri, 7 Oct 2011.

My Secret Origin I had a head-start in reading comics with a hand-me-down collection.

I saw a re-mention of a 2019 blog post tonight called I come here not to bury Delphi, but to praise it and the counterpart commentary at HackerNews/YCombinator … I thought that I’d reminisce a bit about my experience with Pascal and Delphi.

I believe that I first encountered details of the Perl programming language in the pages of The C Users Journal.

Setup I recently needed to draw a UML sequence diagram.

When I was a kid, my brothers gave me comic books to kind of start and fill out my collection.

The original version of this post was published on March 16, 2014.

In the mid-1980’s, I’d owned a used TRS-80 Model I for about a year when I had a yearning for a newer system.

Before I was in Kindergarten, I had a comic book collection.

Once Upon a Time In 2009, I created an image capture utility for Windows called Pic2File.

Shooter I was a little surprised when I saw an announcement from Krypton Comics in Omaha ( http://www.kryptoncomicsomaha.com ) that comics legend Jim Shooter would be the guest of honor on Free Comic Book Day, this year.

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration” – Edsger Dijkstra My early days of computing began in the late 1…

In the late 80’s, my programming team was in search of a decent programmer’s text editor for MS-DOS.

Originally published on: Sat, 22 May 2010 The first computer in my household was a Radio Shack TRS-80 pocket computer that my dad owned.

I saw another Facebook “squares” puzzle this morning.

Originally Published on August 2, 2012 A number of my Facebook friends have been posting a puzzle based on the image below.

Radio was a constant in my early childhood and teen years.

Originally published on: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 I needed a little mental exercise tonight, so I chose to write a quine ( a program that produces its own source as its output ) in the Forth programming language?

Originally published in Commodore Hacking electronic magazine #15, April 1998 In the early 70’s, Charles Moore designed one of the most powerful computing languages known.

This post was formerly hosted at a couple of my other blogs.

A friend and I used to really enjoy playing pinball.

Originally published on: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 My first computer was a second-hand TRS-80 Model I with 16K of RAM and a cassette-recorder for auxiliary storage.

I’d just read a new article describing Amazon’s new publicly available NTP service (Amazon Time Sync).

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a notification containing a simple Python script that would remove backgrounds from images.

I had read the first edition of this book in 2015-ish.

Originally published in the Commodore Hacking (C=Hacking) electronic magazine #14, November 1996.

Originally posted 5-21-2004.

This post was originally published in 1999.

The original intent of this post was to focus Python-related materials to another of my sites.

The Cycling Tour is the eighth episode of the third season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Portions of this post were previously published on Sun, 26 Jun 2011.

When I was a kid … ten or eleven years old … I happened upon a local AM radio talk show called Beatles Trivia.

I had discovered the International Obfuscated C Coding Contest (IOCCC) some time in the late 1980’s in the pages of a printed technical magazine.

I like to use the PNG format for Mac screen-captures to ensure that I don’t lose any clarity in the source images.