Tag: Mines

The Amazon Rainforest Is No Man’s Gold Mine

I’ve always had a preference for silver, both to wear and to work with. During my time in college learning the arts of metalworking, I relished every chance to work with sterling. Reticulating silver makes a beautiful texture. Gold polishes well, but the bright yellow is just too gar...

Mine’s FORTRAN, His Was COBOL, and Theirs Is … C++?

1969: There’s nothing as romantic as carrying yours-and-mine boxes of punched cards to a table in the dormitory common room to debug your programs side by side. Check YES or NO. I was 17, and I checked MAYBE … because I already had the most romantic piece of paper I could imagine in ...