I saw a couple posts considering this idea…again. It seems that this trope come around every year or so…I don’t give it much mind, other than the obvious fact that most of it is covered by (you got it!) blogs. This latest version of the coming demise of blogging is based upon: the idea that [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Colleges and Money
February 28, 2011
I remember hearing from an older friend of mine that in 1960 the cost of college credits (undergraduate credits) was in the $8.00 range. That is, you paid eight dollars a credit…a fifteen credit semester would cost you a bit more than $120.00! When I went to college for the first time (in the 70’s) [...]
Valentine’s Day
February 28, 2011
Most of the traditional holidays we celebrate have less than rational backgrounds. In the case of Valentine’s Day, we have some murky, but interesting history to delve into. Living in northern climes (as I do), the notion that February has some innate relationship with romantic love has always seemed weird. If you consider that the [...]
beginning guitar (I)
February 26, 2011
Compared to when I started on the guitar there are seemingly innumerable resources out there to learn and to master many of the skills and general knowledge it takes to be a reasonably good guitarist. There are hundreds of sites out there which give away free lessons, there are sites which have some pay structures [...]
another potpourri…
February 26, 2011
Today I have a couple interesting links for you to check out. The first is a High Dynamic Range video taken inside the ruins of an old Polish church. This may be one of the best ways to see the potential in using HDR methods for photos or videos. This video is spectacular enough such [...]
Which languages should you learn?
February 26, 2011
There are plenty of reasons to want to learn a particular language; you may be entranced with a specific aspect of a particular culture (French cooking, Japanese Manga, Italian Soccer teams, etc.), you may ultimately want to visit some place (Portuguese if you want to go to Rio for Carnival, Mandarin for Beijing, C## for [...]
Handwriting Fonts
February 25, 2011
Last week I ended up having a conversation with a couple of women in a local coffee shop. This was brought about by their asking me about my NetBook (which I was feverishly using). The whole conversation took nearly 30 minutes, in that we covered a lot of related issues (iPads, eReaders, and books in [...]
More Questions…
February 25, 2011
1. If you were to go to a mid 1950’s road house for a meal, you would likely get a ‘blue plate special’. I suspect that most living Americans don’t have an idea as to what this might be…There have been so many radical changes to the American diet, the types of foods which we [...]
Why should I learn another language?
February 25, 2011
First off, I should preface my remarks me stating that I think that human languages, computer languages, and much of higher level math all what I would consider to be ‘languages’. There are a number of valid reasons for spending the time to learn another language, and some of them are quite compelling. There is [...]
Some hard to define words…
February 24, 2011
A. Elegance is a work which can only be described in inelegant ways. Besides most people’s perceptions of what this word may represent, the term ‘elegance’ has a lot of meaning in the worlds of mathematics, science, and engineering. In these technical fields, the term elegance often could be used to describe a theory, a [...]
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