Thoughts

thoughts, ideas, questions, and rants

the lunar eclipse

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December 20, 2010

I saw in a number of places that the lunar eclipse, which is theoretically happening right now (but since I am in a snow storm I can only imagine…), hasn’t come on the winter solstice for 456 years. I guess that large number s are always an attractive idea. The fact is that with the [...]


Dark Flow

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December 18, 2010

I was strolling through the internet the other day, and ran across an article (and a few related pieces…) which represent what the best of cosmology is…to me. The article covered an idea, and some measured data…about how some galaxy super clusters are moving away from us at additional (and incredible) speeds. The thought is [...]


a potpourri of online nuggets…

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December 14, 2010

Over the last couple of weeks I have been slowly accumulating some interesting bits of new from various online sources. I usually don’t keep my finger too close to the current events pulse, but since I have a couple, I guess that it’s time to look them over…  


a middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part III)

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December 11, 2010

This series of posts I am writing about social networking is not some sort of marketing method or a means of proselytizing the wonders of using these online tools. I only want to show you the possible advantages that could come from into looking into these new networks. I mentioned the fact that Facebook has [...]


a middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part II)

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December 9, 2010

Facebook…this is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room. For many (especially the more young and female amongst us) this online giant has become a ubiquitous part of one’s daily life. For my ‘target audience’ (i.e. old duffers like me…) Facebook is seen as the face of everything they are not interested in. My point [...]


A middle aged guy’s guide to social networking (part I)

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December 8, 2010

With regard to the internet at large, this has to be one of the more obvious elephants in the room (i.e. that no one ever refers to…). Almost every fellow (middle aged guy) member of my age cohort has almost nothing to do with social networking. This isn’t to say that there are none…I see [...]


a thought about the future…

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December 7, 2010

I can see in myself, and to a growing degree in our culture, that technology has allowed us to replace large portions of the ‘personal things’ which we use as a form of personal identification and even as adjuncts in how we define ourselves. I am talking about such things as the ability to reduce [...]


two interesting books

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December 6, 2010

This post is a book review of two books; one which I first read in 1977, and the other which I just finished. My reasons for putting these two books together will soon become quite obvious. The first book was suggested to me from a Psychology Today magazine review in early 1977 (yeah, I know…a [...]


a technical library…

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December 3, 2010

Fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was still working in the electronics world I was presented with an interesting thought experiment by my mentor Cris Metzler. His question was “which books would you use to create a technical library for the electronics technicians (and some entry level electrical engineers)?”  


skills (part II)

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November 30, 2010

MY last post (just below) engendered a couple very good comments. Part of today’s post is (in a small way) a sort of thanks to these two writers in that they have helped me to coalesce my thoughts on the issue I hoped to get across. My original post devolved around the issue whether all [...]


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