Bass electric-guitar player Jim Normandy once shopped around for an archtop guitar — an acoustic guitar with a full body and distinctive arched top. But the $3,000 price stopped him short.
Introduction - why not human characters?
The characters in the cartoons are not human. This is deliberate. First, we are dealing with a number of stereotypes. As our research indicates, the way many...
In the small community where I grew up, Tommy Goodwin was the town drunk. When he would stagger past our house, my mother would direct my attention to him and say: "Look at Tommy Goodwin. He is a...
Bonnie Baker
Overview
A few years ago, I was approached by a new graduate engineering applicant at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), 2001 in San Francisco. When he found out that I was a...
Overview
Paul jumped onto IRC.
BLACK? How did you get access to that system?
He typed the message without thinking. He had never posted to a public chat room before and the post felt foreign to...