I’m a lifelong doodler and writer. The doodling has dropped off a bit since I switch to writing on computers in the late 80s but I think, now that I have a WACOM tablet, that’ll come back in the future. This blog is a collection of observations, essays and prose. Sometimes I’ll mine my previous essays on love, family, popular culture and religion. Sometimes it’ll be about some movie that’s managed to reach me on some level deeper than something to do for a couple hours. I’m still looking for a good venue to publish longer prose pieces… but for now, I’ll drop a few chapters here on occasion.

The picture is of the first computer I purchased for writing, a Kaypro 4 “luggable” computer with two 5 1/4-inch floppy disks, a built-in 7-inch green screen monitor, a built-in 300-baud modem and a whopping 64K RAM. It ran a character based non-graphical operating system called CP/M. There was no “World Wide Web” in those days, and most people didn’t think about computing in terms of communication. They were though of as “new fangled” expensive typewriters mostly. Expensive indeed, this little beast (weighing in at just under 35 pounds) cost me about $2,000 in 1984. Two years later I bought his big brother, a Kaypro 10 which featured a whopping 10-MB hard drive (again for just around $2,000). It’s scary to think of how much I’ve invested in technology just on it’s way out to pasture, all in the name of looking for a better machine to do my writing on. Damn. JBB

[Editorial note: This version of the blog is being created on 4/1/05 (how appropriate is that), but much of the material goes back to Nov 2002 (and way before that), so I will post date it for the sake of context. JBB]