Friday 04/04/2025
Walked the standard walk in reverse so as to end up at Mme. Collette’s coffee shop as a treat. Finishing the walk I was thinking how Joanne was coming back from her Sicily tour tonight, and how her custom is, every Friday morning, to pick up a bran muffin from a certain bakery. So not wanting to walk an extra mile, I hopped in the car and drove to the bakery, got the particular bran muffin. Then since I was out, I drove down to FOPAL and got caught up on computer books. Back to CH I put the muffin in its bag on the railing by the door of her apartment, so she’d find it when she came in this evening.
Rest of the day was mostly reading. I’m reading Bill Gates’ autobiography and finally got to the interesting part, when at age 13 he and Paul Allen are let loose on a teletype terminal connected to a mainframe and he starts teaching himself programming. He was writing, or at least trying to write, quite elaborate games, like his own version of the classic Lunar Lander, in BASIC. (At about the same age, and about the same time, Steve Wozniak was teaching himself computer design by reading schematics.)
Codgerville 