Merideth asked us to name Five things that are such an integral part of your life, you can’t believe someone else introduced them to you. It’s a tough question, but I think I’ll have to say… 1. When I was a kid, the only use I had for computer chips was entertainment. We had an Atari. Boom. Die, alien badguy. Die, evil missile. Boom. But once I got to junior high school, we had to study these machines. It was a room full of Radio Shack TRS-80s that got me going, not my (here, pseudonymous) friend Maurice Fishman’s Commodore 64. …

What be yer favorite ports o’ call? Where would ye want to hoist a mug’o’rum, were ye given a large pile ‘o’ booty to finance yer stay? I may not be an official Friday Five member, but sometimes the questions are interesting. I’m going to be more specific than some of the other people who posted about this. I’m going to talk about establishments… 1. Coffee Beans, a little coffee shop in Iksan, South Korea. It’s the best coffee shop in town. Now, wait, which one am I talking about? There are two, an old one where I have lots …