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12
May

more from the weekend

1) As I watched them set up the difference engine I pictured a more practiced person setting it up in maybe half the time. Operators being a skilled profession in a world where the machines were completed and used in Babbage’s time. Cities would have computational centers that people send their work to. 2) The […]


26
Jan

More uses for dollar coins

Well, it’s still as money so anywhere money changes hands should be ok, but outside of post office vending machines you don’t find it so much. Yesterday I decided to try it in the vending machines at work. The snack machine just dropped it through, but the Coke machine happily reported it was a dollar. […]


11
Dec

I’m switching my preferred transliteration from Channukah to Chanukah.


05
Nov

Results of the heat

Well, first the rain and then the heat, a few thousand weeds and grasses decided to start up. The weeds I can pull but I can’t go pulling individual blades of grass and single-leaf clover. A gopher has  moved into the yard. I think it’s feeding on the new bounty of weeds since the previous […]


01
Sep

No Aurigids

I went to sleep at 1AM and the sky was perfectly clear so I set my alarm for the appropriate Aurigids time and when I woke up there was endless fog. Stupid weather!


06
Mar

Diebold in die-off

It looks like the Diebold voting machine division is taking a step towards going away.


27
Jan

Hello? Is this thing on? How do I work this thing…   Stupid Why didn’t that get rid of it?   Stupid machines hate me.   $@#$%!


16
Jan

Effects of the cold

Sunday and Monday when I woke up (6:15AM) the temperature outside was 23 degrees F. Saturday was 27, this morning it was warmer at 25. Many of the plants in the area are freezing, including a good portion that were doing well from the landscaping. I’m hoping they will bounce back, Nicole thinks they’er dead […]


02
Jan

I’m ready for this new year!

Last year was loaded with chaos. I’m looking forward to things being more normal and catching up this year.


27
Nov

From last night’s fortune cookie

“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”

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