Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Red Line Madness

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Some things mortal man was not meant to understand.  I had occasion yesterday to test an assumption I had made about the Red Line, th...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Submarines, Spies and the Search for Malaysia Airlines 370

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Every day when I get up, I check to see the latest news on MH 370, our missing 777. Every night when I give up for the day, I check to ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Mysteries of Underbidding in Visual Effects: Deliberately Underbidding

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This is the first in a series of posts on the psychology and process of bidding in visual effects.  In this first series, we look at the ...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Malaysian Airlines 370, CNN and Worker's RIghts

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Although we do not know what happened to Malaysia Airlines 370 beyond the certainty that it is a tragedy, we must remember that every clo...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Choose Your Path to Hell: Windows 7 or 8?

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A moment of pleasure, a lifetime of regret. That is how I see my decision to run Windows years ago. Back in the day, I had a Mac and a...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Interesting Article on Ageism in Silicon Valley

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Every once in a while we will just refer to an article or articles that we think are interesting and hope our readers will as well.  This o...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Proper Social Conventions When Someone Insults You to Your Face

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Warning: this post uses nasty and derogatory terms about ethnic groups as part of describing an event that happened to me this week in Bever...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

Apparently Not Everyone Realizes that Poetry is Down Market

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I have often said on this Blog and in real life "everyone who goes into the business of writing sonnets or the short story pretty mu...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

What Are Those Damn Pirates Mumbling About Anyway

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In Pirates of the Caribbean  at Disneyland there is a place near the start of the attraction which involves some different voices warning...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Segue from National Security to Vegetarian Tamales

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You may ask what is the relationship between a recipe for vegetarian tamales and national security, not to mention story structure in theme...