My wife and I trekked out to Wright City this weekend for a surprise anniversary party for one of her uncles. It was in a park in Wright City. Wright City is a small town roughly an hour west of St. Louis on I-70. It’s most famous for Big Boy’s, a roadside hole-in-the-wall restaurant that [...]
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My Wright City adventure
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 21, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/my-wright-city-adventure/
New Order, Joy Division, surviving and moving on
I couldn’t tell you the last time I thought about Joy Division, and then one of my college classmates posted a story about a stash of Joy Division and early New Order master tapes showing up in the basement of a former bank, along with guns and gold (but presumably, no butter). Yes, the jokes [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/new-order-joy-division-surviving-and-moving-on/
Oh well, whatever, nevermind. 20 years later
Rob O’Hara beat me to the punch with his excellent analysis of Nirvana’s seminal Nevermind, and I find myself not disagreeing with a word of it. So rather than duplicate his work, I’ll talk about how I came to learn of Nevermind and its reception in St. Louis.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 24, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/09/oh-well-whatever-nevermind-20-years-later/
RIP, Paul Splittorff
Paul Splittorff, the winningest pitcher in Royals history–he won one more game in his career than Sandy Koufax–died yesterday at age 64. The great Joe Posnanski wrote a tribute. I can’t top that.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 26, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/05/rip-paul-splittorff/
Tribute to the Asus SP97-V
In need of an obsolete but reliable PC for a project, I searched a dark corner of my basement, a last stop for castoff PCs before being sent off for recycling.
I found one. Predictably, it had an Asus motherboard in it. Specifically, it had an SP97-V in it, a budget Socket 7 board from the late 1990s sporting a SiS chipset with integrated video that worked well with Cyrix and AMD CPUs.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 12, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/05/tribute-to-the-asus-sp97-v/
Like father, like son. Plus, a tribute to Quantum
This weekend, I tried to put together a PC from secondhand parts. For the missing parts, I went into the basement, swept the floor, and used what I found.
My one-year-old helped.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 18, 2009
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2009/05/like-father-like-son-plus-a-tribute-to-quantum/
How to pay off the national debt in less than 30 years
A couple of coworkers were talking about taxes, deficits and the national debt this week.
One of them looked my direction and said, “I’ll bet Dave can figure out how to pay off the
national debt.”
It’s actually not as hard as it sounds.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 8, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/10/how-to-pay-off-the-national-debt-in-less-than-30-years/
The best baseball player you never heard of
Thirty years ago next week, during a heated division title race with the Kansas City Royals, star California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock was murdered in Gary, Indiana at the age of 27.
ESPN has a tribute.
He’s the best baseball player you’ve never heard of, and quite possibly also the greatest human being you never heard of.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 18, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/09/the-best-baseball-player-you-never-heard-of/
Fathers: Give your family a gift this Father’s Day weekend
I’m sitting here watching NBC’s tribute to Tim Russert tonight. Although he was famous for being the biggest political guru of his generation, he was also the author of two books, both about fatherhood.
He died today of a heart attack. He was only 58.
I would have liked to have asked my dad what to do to minimize the risk of heart attack. Being a doctor, he should know. But I can’t. He died of a heart attack in 1994, age 51.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 13, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/06/fathers-give-your-family-a-gift-this-fathers-day-weekend/
Fairlight in the news?
A story today about the possibility that a prominent California Republican was once a co-founder of the Commodore 64 warez group Fairlight caused an uproar on Slashdot today.
Reading it brought back some memories.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 6, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/05/fairlight-in-the-news/