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Computing Across America, Chapter 10 by Steven K. Roberts October 31, 1983 First Nastassja Kinski’s dog, now this? — Loretta in Uniontown, PA I arrived in Uniontown shaking with exhaustion after a mere thirty-four-mile ride from Washington & Jefferson college. The distance was short, but it had been a tense day of gusty crosswinds on…

Computing Across America, Chapter 9 by Steven K. Roberts October 28, 1983 The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as foreign land. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton I left Columbus, alone, on the eighth dreary day in a row.…

Computing Across America, Chapter 8 by Steven K. Roberts October 14, 1983 Electronic hugs do nothing for me, unless they’re from someone I don’t know. — Comment heard online The escape from Cincinnati was a frantic and dangerous plunge through rush-hour traffic in the rain — a desperate competition with angry commuters racing the corporate…

Computing Across America, Chapter 7 by Steven K. Roberts October 10, 1983  Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.— Oscar Wilde The three of us sat in the living room. Amy was exuberant, babbling effervescently and building impressionistic structures with Lego blocks. She looked at…

Computing Across America, Chapter 6 by Steven K. Roberts October 4, 1983 I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. —Ogden Nash My first sensation after the initial shock was freedom — a dizzying and unfamiliar freedom. I stood quietly as the…