Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Added March 11, 2026: I kept this post as a reminder that computer pricing follows a familiar rhythm. Using an inflation calculator from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis tells me that $1,999 in 2006 is worth approximately $3,199 now. I paid $2,765.09 in November 2023 for the MacBook Pro I’m using now that’s a bit above the base model.…
One of the few things I like about Missouri is St. Louis style pizza from Imo’s. It’s a thin crust pizza that may not be for everybody but Stephanie and I like it a lot. We were just discussing today that we’ll miss Imo’s when we leave Missouri.…
Added March 13, 2026: I removed the full phone number, it probably doesn’t belong to the same person now anyway. But it was a memorable event.
Last night around 8:30 or so, we get a call on our home phone. We don’t use it much, we only have a land line for emergencies and the occasional local phone call.…
Apple released a beta of Boot Camp today, an “official” Windows/Mac dual boot solution. It will be built in to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. The ability to easily dual boot means that my next computer will be a Mac.
Of course I recently bought a G4 mini, and my Dell is not even a year old, so my next computer is a few years down the road.…
Added March 13, 2026: The poster session that never happened, about the dissertation that never got off the ground. By that time that conference happened I was back in Knoxville and working at Hodges.
Haven’t posted in a while, been a bit busy.…
Added March 11, 2026: I tell this story often. This was the beginning of the end of living in Missouri.
I don’t like a state where they have to use sirens to warn you about the weather. We had some nasty weather last night and the tornado sirens went off twice.…
Watching Murderball right now, a documentary on quadriplegic rugby, a very tough sport. They use these ultrafast wheelchairs that are built like battering rams. Not a sport I’d like to play, but interesting to watch.…
The hard drive on my iMac died, it would have cost $300 to fix. So instead I went on eBay and got a G4 Mac mini for $500 including shipping. I could have gotten a new Intel Mac mini for a little more money, about $100 more.…
Announcing the birth of my daughter,
Lisa Dawn Greene.
She was born on Wednesday February 22nd
At 11:57 pm Central Time, Columbia Missouri
Weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz
And measured 19 3/4 inches long
Editing this post over 20 years later (March 4, 2026).…
Added March 11, 2026: I tell this story when people ignore health issues. Not that I’ve gotten any better with that myself.
Last Tuesday I started having really bad stomach pain at about 4 in the morning. By the end of the day I had a fever and I was vomiting.…