Meandering Thoughts #34
Did Star Trek - intentionally or not - create the Borg phrase Resistance is futile from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Vogons? Compare and contrast: "Resistance is useless!" shouted…
Meandering Thoughts #33
"Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" by ups2006 is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Writing science fiction allows the author to present a future that doesn't exist today: faster-than-light space travel, sentient robots, moneyless…
Meandering Thoughts #32
© Innersloth LLC Do authoritarian governments consider Among Us subversive? I'm not kidding! In the game, you are a member of a crew whose been assigned tasks to complete. Unfortunately,…
Meandering Thoughts #31
During major football tournaments, the referees assigned are, for obvious reasons, are neutral. For Switzerland v. Germany, the referees are Italian. I'm currently watching Belgium v Romania in Euro 2024…
Meandering Thoughts #30
Defeating Pakistan and advancing to the Super Eight in the T20 World Cup does nothing for cricket's visibility among United States sporting fans. It's been over four decades for football/soccer…
Meandering Thoughts #29
The talk before the WNBA draft was that Caitlin would not have to carry the scoring load that she did at Iowa, that she would be surrounded by superior talent…
Meandering Thoughts #28
It's inevitable that plane travel includes overhearing neighboring conversations how hard you try to ignore them....at least until you switch on your noise canceling headphones! Most are mundane, innocuous, unimportant,…
Meandering Thoughts #27
From my LinkedIn feed: After introducing more than a couple of younger engineers to the number 42, I truly wonder how many caught the Monty Python reference....sadly, I doubt many.
Meandering Thoughts #26
...wonder what its RESTful endpoints look like...
Meandering Thoughts #25
After today's Fulham 0-4 Manchester City at Craven Cottage, Man City is two wins away from an unprecedented four straight first division titles in England. It's simply never been done…