Category Archives: words
“Remembering Steve,” or “20 years of the Happy Mac”
It started with something called an “Apple II” in a darkened room at my elementary school. Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, turtle graphics, writing our first stories and printing them out. HyperCard, hours making flipbooks and puzzling through scripting on my … Continue reading
Yeoman’s Work?
‘Yeoman work’ or ‘yeoman service’ is simply good, honest, hard work. A yeoman was a class of farmer, above a labourer but below a land-owner – a tenant farmer – who had (has) a reputation for hard toil. from phrases.org.uk; … Continue reading
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