It only took a category five hurricane to bring renewable energy to the forefront. The reality is that once everyone gets their electricity back this will be forgotten like all the past promises of past hurricanes. Like the mythical promises of maintaining the electric grid. …
Author: Nelson
A beautiful young Salsa dancer showing off her moves. …
After hurricane Maria hit and knocked my garage’s roof on top of my car (only a dent on the car’s roof is the extent of the damage from one of the beams) and left me without electricity I was really down in the dumps. Although I fared better than a lot of my neighbors whose tin roofs were stripped from their houses, it is still tough to have one’s life come to an abrupt halt. And I still have no …
If you haven’t read the following joke, I suggest you get ready to bust a gut and if you suffer from high-blood pressure take your meds before you continue. I almost died reading this account of the Chili-Cookoff! Note: Please take time to read this slowly. If you pay attention to the first two judges, the reaction of the third judge is even better. For those of you who have lived in Texas, you know how true this is. They …
Continuing with the theme of my last post, I will now give my account of my adventures with my Atari 130XE 8-bit computer. The Atari 8-bit was the first computer I owned. My mother bought it for me in 1984. This computer came equipped with 128-Kbytes of memory (which was 64-Kbytes more than the norm at the time), built-in Atari BASIC, a cartridge slot, and an expansion slot. By the time Norton Utilities 7 came out for the IBM PC …
I was looking over my resume today—which I haven’t kept up-to-date. When I glanced over the part where I wrote about my adventures as a one man Internet Services Provider, I get a sense of wow come over me. I would never even bother with doing something like this today. Things have changed so much. You see, I physically ran everything from my apartment in Philadelphia. There were no third parties involved (except my upstream provider). At least, I can …
One of the things that I love to do to relax is teach myself Latin. I take it easy, it will probably take me the rest of my life, but hey… I have time. 🙂 Puerto Rico has the bad habit of leaving us without electricity every now and then, and it is at this time that I always utter the following words in Latin “Hic jacet Nelsonius”–Here lies Nelson. Power failures almost always happen when I have nothing else …