fighting the lack of good ideas
Diagram.ly – it’s sorta like Visio, but free, and web-based. Meetings.io – like webex, including conference calling and file and screen sharing. Qama – a calculator that doesn’t give an answer until you provide a “reasonable” guess. Udacity – a free computer science program. Urbanchickens – dedicated to raising chickens in “non-traditional” environments (like cities).
I think I might have to boycott Groupon: a few months back they had a deal for an introductory flight, first ground school time, and pilot log book for about 50% off the normal rate from the local flight training company, NexGen Aviation. I arrive at the airport a little before 1400 for my flight…
Career development. Career path. Development opportunities. Taking your career to the next level. Terms and phrases we all hear and pretty much pass over in our day-to-day lives. Right up until we want to move to a new/better job or performance reviews roll around. But what do they mean, and how can you advance your…
Wow. It’s been several months since I last posted a book review. I have been reading in the mean time – just haven’t gotten around to posting any of them hereon. In the intervening months I’ve read 1434 by Gavin Menzies (follow-on to 1421) and The Lost City of Z by David Grann. I’m currently reading…
I’ve recently had some travel for work that had put me up in Indianapolis. Tuesday evening I watched the best light show ever: a miles-high, miles-wide thunderhead flashing nearly constantly for over 30 minutes. It was a little east of where I was staying in Fishers, but man was it pretty! For the record, God’s…
A few years ago I was working for Sigma Xi as an intern, and was introduced to the then-young Connexions project from Rice University. This week I was reminded of the service, and have started looking into ways I can contribute to their open repository of educational materials. I’d written two articles published there when…
Following-on with what my wife wrote last week, we’ve been enjoying going to local auction houses again recently – even on nights when there’s nothing we want, it’s still at the very least entertaining 🙂 The last couple times we’ve gone, we’ve been to the Williamsburg Auction Center, near where my wife grew up. The building…