Huh. Well. Starting from around 5:30pm Friday, thru 11pm tonight, it’s been a whirlwind of “activity”, in the life of Brian. You can tell with my lame opening of “Huh. Well.”, that I’m just too dad-blame tired right now (midnight) to write all about what’s transpired during this 30 hour period, since it would probably […]
Interests
Jesse Wiliams at the BET Awards
A fellow by the name of Jesse Williams gave an impassioned speech at the BET awards recently. It’s been getting some (almost viral) press so I watched/listened to it, and didn’t have any issue with it, actually thought it was a pretty good speech, and he’s a very passionate, eloquent, articulate speaker. I’m not sure, […]
Photography and Fireworks
The problem with shooting 280 fireworks photos (in the space of thirty minutes), is trying to figure out which are the “truly great” and which are only “good”, the easy part will be throwing out the junky ones. Some of the “good” ones look “artsy-fartsy”, and while I like them, i don’t think others would […]
Tesla, Auto-Pilot, and software development
Reading a pretty cool and short (text)book (yawn), called “A gentle introduction to the art of object-oriented programming in Java. (yes, a truly exciting two volume set) Uses as an example, the programming of a robot. Reading this book, and also reading the recent news posted by my former colleague Charles Rader, about the first […]
Model Railroading and “Collecting”
So. Most all Model Railroader hobbyists are also “collectors”. They (read: “we”) either collect engines (locomotives), passenger cars, freight cars, or even things called “structure kits” (various types of buildings you put together). We usually do our collecting via eBay, or at the local model railroading flea markets, etc. Sometimes, we even collect “track”. (to […]
