Random Learnings #27
My wife and I ate at Brasa this evening and saw this on the menu: How refreshing to see a restaurant actually treat their employees like .... um ... employees?…
Cool Photos #6
January 1993. London, England, interviewing for jobs. Original plan for my wife and I to move together, but by this time we were separated but I still had dreams of…
Cool Photos #5
This is the reading room of the Rijksmuseum Research Library in Amsterdam. From the main museum there's an entrance that leads to a viewing platform from where I took the…
Best. Joke. Ever.
One of Dell's acquisitions was based in Israel, with which my development center was integrating our storage solution. Their technical leaders flew to Minnesota for a week of meetings, typical…
Random Learnings #12 FOLLOWUP
Original post: https://scottsosna.com/2023/09/26/random-learnings-12/ According to this nytimes.com article, (paywall, a different free version here) a bill may be introduced in California's state assembly to give reparations to families of people…
Civilian Casualties
Image: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/picture alliance/dpa/TASS While the Crocus City Hall was still burning, speculations had begun about who was responsible: Russians whom blame Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny; protesters…
Audi Crooks
Friday night, Iowa State's Audi Crooks scored 40 points, leading Iowa State to a comeback 93-86 win over Maryland in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.…
Analog Time in a Digital World
My daughter is teaching her sons/my grandsons how to tell time on an analog clock after realizing they had no idea what the hands on a clock meant. I'm not…
Random Learnings #26
In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, the first two rounds are hosted by top-four regional seeds. Though not guaranteed, the home court advantage does increase teams' chances of making it…
Random Learnings #25
I recently finished reading Ken Follett's Edge of Eternity, Book Three of The Century Trilogy - I read the first two books, Fall of Giants and Winter of the World,…