The Adventures of Roberta X

     Events of the past week have made it clear: If you're still supporting Republican politicians at this point, you're in favor of...

     My boss recently had occasion to use a packaged microcontroller; I leapfrogged from BASIC Stamps (nice little widgets, as long as what ...

      This morning, Tam was looking at a Mars-lander parachute with a message encoded in the panels.  Over her shoulder, I thought it was a ...

     As I write this, the U. S. Senate is poised to pull the rug out from under funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) f...

     I've gotten that advice in comments quite a lot.  Oh, if only I could!  The problem is, politics won't ignore me.      The Uni...

     Saturday was a struggle.  My back's been hurting, and by midday Saturday, I had a stomach ache and I was feeling cold.  I kept afte...

     It looks like I'll need to go in early next Monday: the last pieces will be arriving for the replacement for a major device that ha...

     One of the things I have difficulty coming to terms with is how angry I am.  Not that Mr. Trump won; I don't expect to like Preside...

     I'm starting to see news stories -- you know, the kind with actual news about things that are actually happened, supported by inter...

     Elsewhere on social media, a writer told the tale of doing a book-signing, and having a guy come up and ask why he ought to buy that wr...

     I woke up with a cataclysmic headache, grumped and stumbled my way through the dishes I put off last night, and, having taken an OTC an...

     Blog traffic is way up -- and it's all machines.  I'm not here to feed machines.  So I took the weekend off.      Need to figu...