The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Tag: longreads

  • Various Long Reads 7/19

    Been a few months since I did one of these, so let’s empty out the backlog: The Story Behind The Song: Slow Ride by Foghat – (Fun fact: Foghat’s first two albums were both self-titled. This was long before Peter Gabriel pulled that shit for three albums, so I think it’s unrelated.) Chicago’s World Fair…

  • Various Long Reads 2/19

    Haven’t done one of these in a bit, so here’s more: The Bloomberg Keyboard – back before PCs and the internet, Bloomberg used physical terminals to connect traders to stock market information. These terminals all had weird keyboards. A fun look back if you’re a mechanical keyboard nerd. You Are Now Entering the Demented Kingdom…

  • More Various Long Reads 9/18

    I should probably find a better way to organize these link dumps (see previous), but I’m lazy. Anyway, here’s some more stuff I’ve been reading: Lisp Machinery – A Lisp Machine resurrection blog – Lisp machines are a weird artifact of the Eighties race for AI, purpose-built big computers made just to run lisp programs.…

  • Various Long Reads 9/2018

    I love long reads. I remember a time when the web was nothing but long articles, and I wasted a lot of time reading them. I’m finding now that this wasn’t really time wasted, and I’m forcing myself to find more long articles that interest me, which is harder than it sounds. Anyway, here’s ten…