It kind of weirds me out that so many people are busily putting up ghoulish displays of skeletons and gravestones at the same time that thousands are dying around the world. I know that Halloween is supposed to be harmless fun, mostly for kids, and that people love a touch of horror. Still, for me, […]
Mike
Born in the wilds of Michigan, I once bought a Toyota and was forever exiled from the state. I migrated to a place in Alabama with more advanced degrees per capita than most of the East Coast and enjoy boating and fishing on the beautiful Tennessee River.
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A Poem is a Window to … the Soul?
I thought that it was appropriate to solicit a haiku for our first poetry entry. Luckily, it was quite easy to persuade the writer to contribute. I wish I could create haikus that were this good. I’m usually lucky if I can get it to rhyme. And still half of them sound like knock-knock jokes […]
Time Is Running Out – Energy Strategy Part 1
Our culture today is like a donkey starving to death when he is sitting right between two piles of hay, but can’t decide between the two alternatives. I am referring here to the tension between the two camps regarding energy policy: one says that we must immediately drop all use of fossil fuels at the […]
Open the Processors!
My bachelor’s degree was focused on computer architecture and logical design, and even though I don’t work in that field now, I still have a love for it. When I had a chance, I would sometimes implement “soft” processors within programmable logic and get them to operate in the context of a whole lot of […]
Cloudflare Has a Silver Lining
When I first looked at Cloudflare I was confused. I was looking for certain things in a DNS provider, and what they offered didn’t seem to correspond to anything that I was familiar with. I just figured that these were things that must be for big web sites for big companies, and went on to […]
The US Constitution is Not Optional
There is a recent kerfuffle in New Mexico where the governor has declared that armed carry will be banned in certain counties where the rate of shootings exceeds a certain threshold. I could talk about the Second Amendment and how this regulation certainly violates it, in the name of a “public health emergency” no less. […]
Great at Diving AND Surfacing
I have been privileged to work in the field of autonomous robotics for about as long as there has been autonomous robotics. One group that I am especially glad to have worked with is Nauticus Robotics in Houston. They have really mastered the ability to send an aquatic robot, equipped with 3D vision and manipulator […]
No Easy Path
I was looking a little bit into web design. My experience with prior web sites was usually just a little bit of HTML and maybe some CGI. Either that or using a Content Management System like postnuke. Creating a website today is a much more versatile process, but i can see that the depth of […]
Three Pines Review
Just started watching on Amazon Prime. Looks interesting. I like the main character’s thought process. I am hoping that the final plot does not end up as predictable as it is looking after the first show. I am a little tired of the Canadian indigenous school as a horror show meme — that is a […]