The Russians Remains The Same
From very earlier in the Ukrainian-Russian war, there have been many reports of Russian soldiers looting Ukraine, including tractors that were remotely disabled. This is the same as seen in…
Random Learnings #8
Timezones are frustrating and confusing for most people, whether you're traveling or just trying to schedule meetings for work. And how often I see software where the time is persisted…
Random Learnings #7
In the United States, most team-based sports in high school, college, and professional have The playing of our national anthem precede the start of the match/game/whatever. With the recent influx…
Random Learnings #6
General Mills had supply chain problems during the height of the COVID pandemic that required reformulating Totino's Frozen Pizza 25 times in 26 weeks. It does to questions about the…
Random Learnings #5
Most City offices are in buildings tightly packed on awkwardly shaped sites and even modern builds make use of mirrors to increase the daylight on lower floors. Holden, C.H. and…
Random Learnings #4
I first saw a reference to Sütterlinschrift while reading Fatherhood: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger. The author was researching his grandfather's military service in…
Random Learnings #3
From the 1933 Pears' Cyclopaedia, Regensburg is the alternative name for Ratisbon. Wikipedia disambiguates Ratisbone as Regensburg and says ...it is still known in the Romance languages as a cognate of its…
Random Learnings #2
A co-worker and his family recently purchased their first home in a new community of new construction, every neighbor is new to everyone else. So far it appears like young…
Random Learnings #1
In a book I'm currently reading about German broadcasting and its use for propaganda during World War II, I read: The first on-air directive, it seems, was a decree that…