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What's new? July 29, 2010: If you're new to this blog, see the "Getting Started" box to the left. Entry #0041, History of Kronos, part 1, presents a humorous 1997 speech I gave to about 800 people at a Sales and Service conference in Chicago. It also explains exactly how, in the course of that speech, I set fire to a timecard. Part 2 will follow next week. July 22, 2010: Getting back to chess, the story of some of the tournament games played by Richard Greenblatt's chess program is told in entry #0040, Mac Hack VI competes. July 15, 2010: This week reveals my first guest entry, written by my sister Alice. It's followed by some comments of my own. See entry #0039, Ask Larry. I hope you all had a great 14th of July yesterday (the French national holiday, celebrating the storming of the Bastille prison). Allons enfants de la patrie ... July 8, 2010: Leaving my recent techie theme, I discuss the development of my childhood brain, in entry #0038, My brain on Ovaltine. Also a bit about radio in my youth. July 1, 2010: Entry #0037, Computer chess via ham radio, describes a chess game played between two computers via amateur radio, for which I was the radio operator on the MIT side. June 24, 2010: I think I was the first person in the world to ever teach a computer programming course at a summer camp, as described in entry #0036, Computer camp. June 17, 2010: Entry #0035, Biscotti (bis), discusses how Americans misuse and mispronounce Italian words. For those who really want all the details, it closes with the exact rules for pronouncing G, C, and SC in Italian. June 10, 2010: Entry #0034, Biscotti, discusses some word origins, and connections between English and various foreign languages. It gives some insight into my fascination with foreign language study. June 3, 2010: Entry #0033 is about My moustache, including why and how I shaved it off after over 35 years. May 27, 2010: Entry #0032 features The Ayache formula, which is all about getting to the Place Clemenceau in the shortest time (but curse the dreaded "patisserie effect"). May 21, 2010: Gak! I'm a day late! For a story in which the two Ph.D.s at Micronetic Systems argue over the testing of a laser, see #0031, Madhu and the death ray. May 13, 2010: Can I really have enough stories about horseradish for an entry in my memoirs? Apparently so. See #0030, Horseradish. May 6, 2010: Entry #0028, Sailing, contains a few sailing and windsurfing stories. #0029, Windsurfing for sailors, discusses learning to windsurf. As the title indicates, it's probably of interest only to people who are interested in windsurfing and already know how to sail. Thus I'm including it as an "extra" along with the sailing stories. April 29, 2010: Entry #0026, Herr Bon, contains some memories of Primus Benedikt Bon, a professor of German at MIT in the sixties. It's followed by another entry that you'll want to skip, unless you're really into German grammar. It's entry #0027, German article and adjectivial inflections. April 22, 2010: Back to Great Neck North High School, this week's entry, #0025, is about studying French with Mr. Canfield. April 15, 2010: U.S. citizens, I hope you've gotten your taxes in! This week's entry, #0024, is about my high school physics course, taught by Mr. Lusch. April 8, 2010: This week's entry is #0022, Remembrance of things breast. And as a bonus, this week only, a free set of Ginsu knives a second entry, #0023, which answers the burning question, Why do women have two breasts?. April 1, 2010: Some of the memorable things my kids said as children are recalled in #0021, Kids say the darndest things. March 25, 2010: For a story about French formality, on my first trip to France in 1961, see #0020, Monsieur L'Oiseau. March 18, 2010: My battle with Burger King over the Massachusetts meals tax. See #0019 Have it your way. March 11, 2010: A romantic interlude in Mont-Tremblant National Park. See #0018 Mont-Tremblant. March 4, 2010: Sometimes, words in one language are vulgar in another. See #0017 Western Ass. February 26, 2010: My sister Phyllis once discovered a wonderful word that can get me to shut up! See #0016 Lobster. Sorry this entry is a bit late. We lost electricity for a few hours last evening, due to a rainstorm with high winds. February 18, 2010: We're back from 12 wonderful days in Costa Rica (motto: "Still more monkeys than people"), where I was far away from my computer. Thus I can now post #0015 "Sex in the Woods", about an event that transpired my first summer of sleepaway camp. It also introduces Camp Robinson Crusoe, which was important in my life, and about which there will eventually be other entries. "Still more monkeys than people" is not actually the motto of Costa Rica, but was rather coined as a description of Manuel Antonio National Park by the Hotel Costa Verde. February 3, 2010: I won't be able to add an entry next week, so I'm posting two this week (a day early). These are #0013 "Frau Pan", about studying German at MIT, and #0014 "Due diligence", about investing in Kronos. Back again Thursday evening, February 18. January 28, 2010: Added #0012 "Véronique", about my arrival at the house of my host family on my first trip to France in 1961. January 21, 2010: Added #0011 "Harold", about my sister Alice's blue and gold macaw. January 15, 2010: I added #0009 "Sehr gut", a story about my first adventure with German. Also #0010 "L'Accent tonique", some musings on the difficulties of hearing and speaking French, probably only of interest to those who speak or are studying French. January 11, 2010: This blog was introduced on my 68th birthday, with eight entries to get you started. One or more new entries will be posted by the morning of every Friday. The initial eight entries are:       #0001, Introduction: What are these pages?       #0002, Who am I?       #0003, Why use the HTML and JPG file formats?       #0004, How I write       #0005, Coming to Kronos       #0006, The poison apple       #0007, Miss Crouch       #0008, I resign