A day in the tobacco fields

My late and beloved grandfather’s first cousin Bobby died this weekend. Bobby was the last one of our family to make a living as a tobacco farmer. He hung up his tractor keys around 1990 or 1991 – but not before his grandchildren, myself, and a friend spent summers finding out what it was [...]

NFO

Remember my whirring hard drive from yesterday? Well, apparently said whirring hard drive was the initial sign of a nasty adware infection that my antivirus software just didn’t catch.
Bastards.
I could have attempted to fix it myself, but in the interest of Protecting Us From Ourselves, the university’s IT department has shut down all of [...]