The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […]
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Posted June 30, 2018 in Monthly News I base my title on a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The original refers to Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus. Being stabbed by his friend was Caesar’s unkindest cut. My recent cut was for surgical purposes: I had a hernia that needed repair, and the only way to repair a hernia is to cut through layers […] Posted March 31, 2017 in Monthly News In 1928 John A. Shedd published a collection of sayings (“Salt from My Attic”) that included the following saying, “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” You may also be familiar with the saying, “Any port in a storm.” The recently recovered audio tapes from the El […] Posted October 31, 2015 in Monthly News In 1802, William Wordsworth wrote a poem usually known by its first line: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is […] |
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