Man, we keep having these once-a-century events on the heels of one another! I am wondering, now, if in the past the once-a-century events did indeed all happen in the same decade in the days of yore. Maybe the wild …
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Dealing with unemployment
My friend Erik, who has prompted posts before (see here for an example), was asking me yesterday what I thought about the unemployment situation. He was advocating limiting the duration of the payments as well as the idea of requiring …
Counter cyclic programming
This post is in response to a comment by DaWei on a previous post “Deficit fetishism“. I felt that rather than have a long comment that might never be read I would create a post that has a …
Lost skills
I spoke earlier about my efforts to work on a personal project part-time, I have a rather depressing update to report. Though I did manage to design the algorithm and code the core of it, it seems my motivation problem …
Slowness in posting
I will be slow to post for a while. I got authorisation from my beautiful wife to cut my regular hours to part-time so I could work on some research for a while. Initially I thought I would have several …
Greenhouse/pool update
After much dilly dallying I finally got motivated to update the web site for our greenhouse / pool construction project:
http://sol-system.com/koxenrider/property/greenhousepool/spring12update/index.html
I am way more motivated now that I can see progress from each weekend’s worth of effort. There was …
Long weekend
A bit quiet on TFOUI… We took last Friday off to make the weekend 4 day to try to get some visible progress done on our greenhouse/pool project. Man was it hot! I have never been a ‘veritable whirlwind of …
Lack of grabbing
It isn’t that I am reading less, just that what I am reading is not triggering any need to blog about it. I don’t see any change on our accelerating slide down the slippery slope to the apocalypse and I …
My Patent Reform Ideas
It is a slow news day and in an effort to keep my regular reader(s) regular I decided to finally write down some of my thoughts on how I would implement patent reform. Note that there is zero chance of …
Why thinking takes longer as you get older (or should, anyway)
This represents the first of what I plan on being a series of posts that I am hoping my boy will read as he gets older (perhaps, if I am really lucky, he will even reread a few). He isn’t …