Release the eelhead!

Just a Mundane Day It was just a day like any other day. Nothing special, just a day in mid-July at around 70 degrees. The sun was out, the skies were blue, and birds were perched high atop light poles shitting on the cars below outside the hospital window. But unfortunately, this month wasn’t starting too well for most folks. David Bowie had just retired from his Ziggy Stardust stage persona, and they just found out that President Nixon had secretly recorded incriminating conversations and Bruce Lee had died. The world was just shit at that time; you need to learn that right from the get-go. What the birds were doing to the cars below was reminiscent of the current events. Things just happen, and that’s how I came to be in a world that was shit and, thus far, hasn’t changed so much since then. They even stopped making metal Tonka trucks, so it’s gotten a lot worse. What was wrong with lead paint anyway? It tasted great!!! So there I was, bare-assed naked and thrust in...

            Computer building became a hobby for me only several years ago. Prior to that, I owned Apple computers and never even thought about building one from scratch. It wasn’t because of laziness; I enjoyed the OS X environment operating system, and you couldn’t make an Apple computer from scratch at the time. They are so clean and easy to use and designed beautifully. Also, back then, they were almost bulletproof concerning computer viruses.             One day, during my journeys through the vast internet, I found myself coming across a website. Tonymacx86 is a site dedicated to installing an OS X operating system on PC parts that you can readily buy. The place was clean and easy to use, like Apple’s OS. The guides were complete and written out as an easy step-by-step for a clean installation. Kind of like following along with Lego build instructions with photos of where your screen should...

I was born on Long Island near the city, was a kid of mischievous ways, and was always up to no good. If I stayed on L.I. I would have taken a different course in life. Near the city, I had all the temptations one could ever need. Cars and summer homes were easy illegal targets to gain possession of and enjoy the weekends with friends. We would party without adult supervision and sneak off into the village with fake I.D.s to drink in a bar where movies were filmed back in the 1970s. That changed in 1990. Then suddenly, the announcement to us was that we were moving upstate. I was crushed! “What in hell was in upstate New York? Surely not any fun” that I can think of. I was to leave my beach behind and move to Podunk, nowhere full of cow shit. I thought hell no to myself at the time. I still remember riding up there with my stepdad and mom to look at some shitty house just outside Deposit, NY. It was an old farmhouse, and it had been a while since anyone lived in it. Beams were ...