I’m not going to go into the “why” since it’s a stupid (and long) story, but last night, I re-watched something called “Star Wars”. I’m sure you may have heard of this film by now. If I had to guess I’ve probably not watched this movie in roughly ten yrs or more. To be frank, […]
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Star Trek Trivia (and a story about Lailah)
I once read that Doctor McCoy said “He’s dead, Jim” lots of times through out the original series. Here is proof (according to someone geeky enough to count them), indicating he did say this phrase 22 times – an average of once every 3 or 4 episodes. By the way, in case you don’t […]
Question on Application to graduate form causes an issue
So. I’m sitting in class Friday evening, next to one of my project teammates, and she is filling out a Saint Thomas form, before the evening’s lecture starts. I recognize the form since I filled it out myself in early Sept. – It’s a declaration of your intention to graduate (she’s filling it out a […]
Law Enforcement – “Use of Force”
Article about LEO and “Use of Force” (opens new window) A former Unisys colleague Paul Martig shared the above article on FB, and below are my subsequent thoughts upon reading that article: Interesting and very well written newspaper article about the “use of force” by the LaCrosse PD, and it gives reasons why all “use […]
Pandora and an irritating limitation
Pandora thinks one hundred stations is enough for a Pandora listener. I wonder if this was just an arbitrary decision by the developer (who, obviously doesn’t like lots of different music/artists), or did someone actually say in ‘The Requirements’, “the maximum number of stations for each user should be 100”
Video of a guy “driving” a self-driving car
Article on self-driving cars (opens in new window) Haven’t really been paying much attention to google or tesla and their auto driving cars – but just watched this demo video of how the Tesla car works. (Software + Hardware) engineering is just freaking amazing! I am now able to better understand those Star Wars (prequel […]
Funding for Marching Bands
Marching Bands article (opens in a new window) Great article about Marching Bands in Michigan (and their lack of funding by the state). There were many, many “things” in high school that influenced me into the person I am today. Marching Band (and the teachers, parents, etc., that supported this extra-curricular activity) are quite near […]
Supporting really old applications
Article on supporting really old computer programs (opens in a new window) Really interesting story about supporting a 60 yr old “computer application”…and not being able to find people that know the older programming languages [they mention Fortran, Assembly, even ALGOL.] I know that some of the code (programs) I wrote in the early to […]
