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The problem with politics...
... is that you never find a candidate that you can agree with 100%. What I really hate is when I find a candidate that I really like, but find ONE position that is a deal breaker. Which is why I just sent the following letter to the Barack Obama campaign:
I've been a life-long Democrat, and I've been very excited about Barack Obama as a ( Read more... ) -
Profession == Hobby, when Job == Dull
Most of my work has not involved much actual slinging of code lately, so I've been working on a project on the side just to keep my skills up. For those of a gaming bent, check it out -- it's not complete yet, but it has enough functionality to be useful, and all future work will not invalidate anything you do at this time. It's written in Java 1. ( Read more... ) -
Doing the math
I'm in Orlando to give my math-loaded paper on distributed simulations at a conference. I wanted to work over the presentation -- I have 30 minutes to give a talk that should really take 90 minutes, so I have to have every word planned out. However, I didn't get much done on the flight because:- I am coming down with a cold or something, and didn't ( Read more... )
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Long Time Coming
I haven't written for a long while, mainly because, to be honest, I've been too busy living my life to write about it. We've been through summer vacation with the kids, a serious illness in the family, finally found and moved into a new house (which involved learning how to maintain the new pool in the backyard), fixed up and sold the old house (16 ( Read more... ) -
Home Sweet and Sour Home
Well, we are officially out of the new home building business ( Read more... ) -
Customer Disservice
Does anyone else go through this? Does anyone else have continual problems with any and all institutions that involve online statements or billing? That have multi-layered customer service lines that are obviously designed to keep costs down by not serving the customer ( Read more... ) -
Eiko-san
I'm on my last day of work here in Tsukuba. One of the JAXA employees that I work with on each trip is a young woman named Eiko. She is the one who organizes all of the social events, makes sure that everyone has coffee or tea, etc. The fact that she is a skilled technical person doesn't seem that important to her bosses ( Read more... ) -
Mata Ne, hopefully
I'm off to Japan, for the third time ( Read more... ) -
The Most Powerful Person in the World
Listening to the news on the way home this evening ( Read more... ) -
In the Aftermath
First of all, yes I am fine. No-one that I know was involved in the craziness. I was actually off-site at the time, and ended up going home early because of the lock-down ( Read more... )