In the 1970’s and much of the 80’s, passengers on commercial aircraft would occasionally experience the joy of the ‘holding pattern’. Having their plane stacked with other planes circling in a spiral due to a delay at a destination airport. Planes would circle sometimes for hours, with priority given to those about to run out […]
I never realized how often I google and how much I rely on sub-second response times until I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OS X Yosemite. After muddling through issues like upgrading VMWare and a few other items and fixing my terminal emulation, I couldn’t figure out why I was in such a bad mood. […]
November 13, 2014 | Startups | 1 comment
Something that I’m becoming more cognizant of and that I see in my friends as we all get a little older is the question about whether what we’re doing is actually moving the needle for the rest of humanity. If it’s making positive change by enabling our species or improving quality of life for others. My […]
November 3, 2014 | Startups | No comments
Posted this on Facebook today and felt like cross posting it here. I feel obliged to post this after seen all the posts in my timeline connecting patriotism with the US military. There are ways to express love for your country without expressing a love for war or the machine that wages war. Omitting an […]
July 6, 2014 | Startups | 1 comment
There’s something about Jazz live performance that has bothers me and I think it’s the audience. It’s the beatific smiles on many of the faces that last through the entire performance – smiles that remind me of a congregation in a church that know that it’s the wanting to believe that matters most, not whether […]
July 2, 2014 | Startups | 1 comment
After seeing a FOIA request earlier today that someone created asking for FBI training documents that teach staff how to understand/communicate using hacker leet-speak, I was reminded about something I’ve wanted to put in virtual ink for a while. Leet speak or 133+ sp34k or hacker speak did not actually originate with hackers. Neither did […]
June 16, 2014 | Startups | 18 comments
[Thanks to ‘evanm’ on Hacker News, here’s a link to the full documentary if you don’t want the abbreviated versions below.] As a low hours pilot I spend a lot of time reading NTSB reports and postmortems on flight incidents to try and avoid repeating the mistakes others have made or learn about how they […]
December 27, 2013 | Startups | 2 comments
We just flew United from Portland, Maine to Colorado and will be flying back in the next few days. We brought 3 pets with us, 2 cats and our Australian Cattle Dog, Joey. Their pet handling was awesome in the midst of a serious winter storm blowing through Maine with very cold icy conditions. My […]
December 26, 2013 | Startups | 2 comments
I’m filing this under the “Things that suck” category. My two mac’s when connected directly to each other using a Cat 5e ethernet cable connect at 1 gigabit/second. Take the same cable and plug it directly into a Linksys N600 which is supposed to support Gigabit ethernet, and it’s stuck at 100 megabits per second. […]
December 14, 2013 | Rants | No comments
Another financial journalist has republished first year econ theory to add their 2c to the Bitcoinosphere and make their press deadline. To summarize: Mr Coy wants you to understand what deflation is, that it’s a nightmare in an economy where debt exists, and that it slows economic growth to a crawl because everyone holds currency […]
December 12, 2013 | Startups | 3 comments