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 […]
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A fav blogger of mine wants to give up…
One of my fav FB bloggers made a decision a week ago to take a break from writing, but then wrote the following post this morning. My South Carolina Life You might want to read her post first (to understand the context) before reading my comment to her: Susan, I had a friend over this […]
Commentary on what qualifies a person to be president?
The following is a commentary I wrote last night as a response to a friend’s post, and I thought I would share here as well. The topic was “trusting (or not trusting) so-and-so candidate”. The version below has been edited and expanded on, with additional thoughts. Not any one politician/candidate can satisfy all 200 million […]
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 […]
Homeless people
Humans of MPLS – Homeless interview A sad situation, and a catch-22: need a job to get away from being homeless, but being homeless prevents them from getting a job. Homeless people should be a number one priority for our help (both via our government, and our selves). ==================================================== “How did you end up homeless?” […]