Meandering Thoughts #37
Courtesy last.fm Who gets the royalties from sales of Marvin Gaye's music? Marvin was killed by his father days before his 45th birthday. By all accounts, Marvin Gay, Sr. was…
Software Engineering Grief
Human beings resist change. This is not personal opinion, it's our defense mechanism against uncertainty. If you narrow your target to software engineers and technologists - whom, in almost all…
Meandering Thoughts #36
My wife's BMW displays this warning before every trip, which must be accepted before using any the in-vehicle infotainment system. Obviously intended at the driver, my wife wondered what's the…
Highland Park Water Tower
The Highland Water Tower in St Paul, MN was completed in 1928 and is on the National Register of Historic Places (1984, Reference #84001209). The tower was designed by architect…
Foodie #8
I drive by Marc Hue Patisserie regularly but often resist the urge to stop and indulge. Today the urge was too strong. Raspberry Lemon Creamsicle Croissant Donut Yes, the name…
Random Learnings #44
I picked up a May 1917 National Geographic magazine ( Volume XXXI, Number 5) for its the World War I reporting, and while the articles were interesting I became sidetracked…
Meandering Thoughts #35
Last night my wife and I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark on the big screen in an actual movie theater, probably for the first time since its initial release.…
Random Learnings #43
Lebensraum is often attributed to Hitler and the Nazis as a component of Germany's imperial and racist visions towards the east, and contributed to the Holocaust as killing the Jews…
Luddite Technologist
Saw this sticker on someone's computer at my local coffee shop and laughed. My life as a confirmed technology nerd is countered by my love of physical books. Unlike my…
Windows IRL #3
from Craig Hettich/The New York Times video Today, the largest IT outage in history hit the Windows operating system when a Crowdstrike patch caused reboots to fail. Catastrophic. While this…