Found this product at Dollar Tree.

Using a Command Language as a High-Level Programming Language
John R. Mashey
Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (October 13-15, 1976), pp. 169-176

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Two fortunes from the local strip mall Chinese/Thai fusion joint, one with an extra half-a-fortune, from some time between mid-April and May 13, 2026.

While fiddling with my educational TFTP client code I noticed an oddity. Sometimes my client could talk to a TFTP server, but not vice versa. The TFTP server, when it condescended to acknowledge a connection, logged a message like recvmsg(): connection refused. I used a local TFTP server, running on my laptop, to avoid these errors, but the mystery of why the server returned no TFTP ACKs or DATA packets remained.

The UNIX Command Language
K. Thompson
© K Thompson 1976

Said to have appeared in:
Structured Programming - Infotech State of the Art Report
Nicholson House, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
Infotech International Ltd. (March 1975), pp. 375-384.

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A Partial Tour Through the UNIX Shell
Geoff Collyer
Usenix Conference Proceedings, Winter 1989

I printed this paper’s pages from a PDF of the whole conference proceedings.

I implemented a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) client from the specification, RFC 1350.

I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.

Strickland, L.
Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary? Math Intelligencer 46, 57–62 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10271-9

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Purchased a paper towel holder from Amazon. The installation instructions were a wonder, but actually installing the rack wasn’t that bad.