Global Wahrman

There are two old rumors about RAND that I think anyone who cares already knows are not true, but just in case, and because sometimes publis...

draft   The RAND Alumni event had only a few people I knew present, but I was happy to see and be able to talk to those who were there.  Amo...

draft JOSS was the RAND Corporation's internally developed timesharing system to permit one computer to be used by many people (research...

draft A real time simulation of the early RAND buildings at 1700 Main Street in Santa Barbara.  This is a screenshot from version 53.   It r...

draft I am trying to recreate 1700 Main Street with computer graphics.  This will be more difficult than I anticipated.   The problem, or th...

draft It turns out that all my friends are afraid that if we have a conversation about any of a number of issues in our society, issues invo...

draft Fragment of a larger essay. I had the misfortune of working at RAND as a college drop out and being part of the early ARPA communi...

draft On the occasion of Donald Trump, the moron king, attacking Syria and blaming Obama for Syria using chemical weapons, I have an a...

I can't imagine anything more futile and tedious than spending time agonizing over how to present what I have learned about some of t...

draft One of my favorite people from the RAND Corporation and its no long existent Information Sciences Department has passed away. ...

The following essay may have to be read with a “sarcasm alert”. I am sorry, I just could not resist.  Back when Ed Snowden was new...

How should Americans celebrate the Fourth of July? Should it be in comfortable, respectable, middle-class suburbs with tepid, but saf...

I was devastated yesterday to hear of the passing of one of the most interesting people I have ever met or worked with, Dr. Willis Ware f...

[being written 7/16/2013] This will be part of the Los Angeles in the 60s, 70s, and 80s topic, when that gets organzied] It seems to ...

Once upon a time, back when I was a fan of animation, animation meant 2D animation for the most part.  Certainly not 3D animation. And in...

The following stories are probably true or at least partially true. When I worked at the RAND Corporation we were managed with a syste...

[Updated 3/6/2013   I am now quite sure that other companies also did TRW commercials, I remember explicitly one that Digital Productions wo...