Childhood

The I-Love-Lucy Sphere

Posted by BitLizard on June 25, 2009 at 2:42 pm

The Internet is such an interesting little place. I ran across this little blog entry ruminating on how to communicate with aliens upon first contact. Embedded in this piece is the factual golden nugget that the TV show I Love Lucy whose broadcast signals have been traveling outbound from Earth at the speed of light [...]

Old Friends, Granite and Pine

Posted by BitLizard on June 14, 2009 at 1:05 pm

What a great pleasure it was to meet with some of my very old and special friends this past week. We are talking “long acquaintance” here …  high school and garage band days. My friend Jim – I think its been something like 26 years since I’ve seen him. His brother Ken, bass player for [...]

From Albuquerque to Denver

Posted by BitLizard on January 25, 2009 at 12:56 pm

In 1968 my father, with a freshly minted college degree, took a new job in the Denver area as a computer programmer. Moving from Albuquerque to Denver was a big change for the entire family, but a much larger change for my mother. She had lived her entire life in Albuquerque with a brief sojourn [...]

Albuquerque sure has changed

Posted by BitLizard on December 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Earlier this month I attended a business meeting in Albuquerque, a city I lived in from the age of 1 year old to about 12. My memories from when I was 12 are predictably spotty. But I *do* remember enough that I have an idea of the layout of the city. Or rather the center-city. [...]