fighting the lack of good ideas
“Ladies and Gentlemen. Boys and Girls. Children of ALL ages. Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey’s Circus is proud to present … GUNTHER .. GABLE .. WILLIAMS!!!” Is about all I recall in vivid detail from when I went to see the RB&B&B circus as a kid with my parents, aunt, and friends. (And, as…
From the late, great John Pinnete (to the tune of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”) Somewhere over the buffet: Food piled high. There’s a meal I must get to, Stop me and you will die. Somewhere over the buffet: Watch me fly. Eating up all of the profits, Making the owner cry. Someday I’ll have my…
VW is planning to put cameras and sensors on new cars sold after 2018 to aid self-driving vehicles, create better maps, and more. Ford announced concept vehicles back in 2010 that could Tweet while they drove. Pretty sure I don’t like this move on the part of VW – technologically, it’s super cool. But from…
Google bought Android and made great things with it. They also had an interesting audacity to announce an “open, modular” phone that ‘anyone’ could design from, and make components that would play nicely together (like IBM did with their initial ISA architecture releases back in the 80s). (Microsoft then flipped the tables on IBM and…
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Several years ago, we lost my great-uncle Don. This is a story from him, as handed-down by my dad. We had been fishing all day. Rowed north and south across the pond. Rowed east and west across the pond. Saw turtles sunning themselves on low tree branches. It was hot. It was muggy. It was…
The slide deck for my recent talk on “Embracing the Change Freeze” – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OaKAYixc1mAH2OFCBaeDbbZRW2w9Q5siDemldNBp7qY/edit?usp=sharing Presented at the January PHPUG / Tech Talks meetup in Lexington KY on 19 Jan.
Recently on one of the podcasts I listen to, I heard an offhanded comment made about how history is taught not in patterns but as facts. For example, “On the 18th of April in ’75, hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year”. Rarely are the “whys” explained – understandably…