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Help J.R. get his Master's Degree
Below you should see a survey I posted to Google Docs to help gather requirements for my Systems Engineering Master's project. If you don't see the embedded survey, you can fill it out here.
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No longer a rocket scientist
Over the next few weeks I'll be transitioning from my job as a rocket scientist to being the team leader for a software development project. I'm still working for the same company, just a total change of duties. This is the kind of opportunity that doesn't come along very often, and it just fell into my lap... the timing was unbelievable. Now I ( Read more... ) -
My plan for the US Auto Industry
So the biggest problems facing the US Auto Industry are labor costs and a horrible business strategy... but the horrible business strategy of "More SUVs, More Trucks!" is actually part of the labor problem. The US Auto Industry's labor rates are so high that they can't afford to make low-margin cars unless they can also pad their books by selling ( Read more... ) -
CDS = MIRV
So I was reading up on the Commodity Futures Modernization Act ... ( Read more... ) -
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Taking Ben to Yappy Hour (dogs!) then after he goes to sleep, I'm going to go catch Food Will Win the War at 10 North Ave, Baltimore MD - 8PM, no cover (I think). -
The Palin Train Wreck
I heard an energy policy that was cribbed from Obama, a fascist approach to law enforcement, a unilateralist approach to foreign policy, and outright lies about the two parties' tax policies. I heard a fairly long-winded biography that was heavy on family and pretty light on her public service. I did hear two examples of reform but I'm pretty ( Read more... ) -
The More You Know (DING)
If you ever need to find the surface distance between two points on the globe, or find out exactly what point is a given distance and direction from a known point on the globe, you should use Vincenty's Formulae.
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Benjamin's first birthday!
Lots of parties to go to, but a quick update for posterity. As of his 366th day, Benjamin is not quite walking, but cruising very eagerly. He will do "up-down" (stand/squat) holding the edge of a piece of furniture, and he will also do something similar to up-downs but faster and with more wiggle -- this is in response to the word "dance" or " ( Read more... ) -
Name a song with a livelier pedigree...
Bob Dylan's It's All Over Now, Baby Blue was inspired by a song by Gene Vincent. Van Morrison's band Them covered the song in 1966. 31 years later, Beck heavily sampled the Morrison cover version (basically a cover itself) in his song Jack-Ass. Then Beck re-arranged and re-recorded the song without the sample, added a mariachi band (Mariachi Los ( Read more... )
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