Recent content by bodumene

Thanks Irwin. I actually joined this forum several years ago, but I haven't been active on it for a long time. Just started looking at it again. I have a whole bunch of digital imaging programs like Corel Photopaint, Bryce, Amorphium, Painter, Sketchup, TurboCad, plus miscellaneous stuff like...

Don, I think I was in the same boat as you a while back, which is why I ended up switching to Linux. I was running XP at the time, and I saw no need to buy a new computer. So I ended up going to Ubuntu. I set it up for a dual boot, so that I could also run my Windows programs if I had to...

Irwin, Thanks for the information and link. I am running Ubuntu and Win 10, dual boot, and I much prefer Linux. It is good to know there isn't any great reason to go to Win 11. It seems so much easier, even though I have been running Microsoft operating systems since DOS! I still run Windows...

I don't remember what triggered off my thinking of a certain time in my life when I was young. My family would go on vacation all summer (my parents were teachers) to the same place each year. I had a group of very close friends there whose families also came each year. We would have a grand...

I had a compression fracture a few years ago, and now I have another. I will begin treatment for osteoporosis, but in the meantime, if things get worse I will probably have to have a fusion of L-3, L-4, and L-5. What's that like? Here's a picture of my crumbling L-4 vertibra from the last MRI.

I had been thinking of getting a Raspberry Pi for a while now, but when I saw the new Model 3, I couldn't resist! It has built-in wi-fi, a faster processor and more memory. I was thinking of using it for an internet radio, because I like music when I go to sleep, and the current AM and FM...

Back in the days of dial-up modems, I frequented the forums of Compuserve. But when I transitioned to cable internet, I lost touch with Compuserve. Now that I am retired, I looked at many forums for retired people, and I found this one to be the best. The posts are very varied, thoughtful...

All of a sudden the weather here turned from cold and rainy to hot and dry. The temperature suddenly became almost 100 degrees! When I was a kid, I used to play in the sun all day long. We didn't know of sunscreen and skin cancer, or sunglasses and cataracts. Now I avoid the sun like the...

With retirement comes time to think about stuff. And so, when a reader of the "Ask Marilyn" column in the newspaper asked, "What is the reason we are here?" it got me thinking. Now Marilyn vos Savant, who ostensibly is the smartest human being on earth (which is why we can ask her anything)...