Sacramento had a severe rain storm in the late 1990's that sent river levels to top of the levees. A news camera crew were recording the high water level at a pedestrian bridge when a salmon jumped out of the water, flopped across the bridge, and jumped back into the water. That was the highlight for the evening newscast since flooding was minimal, the levees didn't collapse and no one died from their own stupidity.
I read 18 volumes of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series in 54 days. That's about ~7,000 pages. A fast paced story that never bogs down about aliens, first contact and languages. Volume 19 just came out but I haven't read it yet.
People who get hung up on what phone they are carrying are usually people who are least likely to afford an iPhone. I know several people working minimum wage jobs in Silicon Valley who are ordering the iPhone XS MAX 512GB for $350 down and $46 per month. They would be better off financially by buying a pre-owned iPhone 7 outright for $288.
One such recent example included the manufacturer’s labeling of equipment where the words “Master/Slave” appeared to identify the primary and secondary sources. Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.
But this year, that meant calling it the iPhone XS. Never mind that XS is the abbreviation for extra small — not an adjective Apple wants for its $1,000 phones — but say “XS” out loud. In the age of smartphone addiction and devices that cost as much as some refrigerators, “iPhone Excess” may not be great for branding.
Instead, the new iPhone XS is pronounced “iPhone 10S,” or as the audience at the Apple event quickly realized, “iPhone Tennis.”
Add the new iPhone XS Max to the mix and you’ve got “iPhone Tennis Match.”
No comment on the iPhone XR. Maybe the "iPhone Tennis Rogue - Serena Williams Edition"?
For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.
The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.
I had an IBM AT with 20MB RLL 5.25" hard drive and ran a WildCat! BBS in the early 1990's. The nice thing about a 20MB hard drive was I could buy a box of 3.5" diskettes (20 count) for $20 and back up the entire system as a 20-part zip file.
Where did I write that I was against helmets? I gave up riding a bicycle (yes, with a helmet) 20 years ago because soccer moms thought it was okay to drive me off the road (or go through the landscaping on a street corner) with an SUV to get their little devil spawn to school in the morning.
People who like to winge about California often have never spent much time in the various parts of California.
I lived in California for all my life. I'm somewhat familiar with the Great Nanny State of California. For example, Los Angeles tried to ban IDE cables because the terms Master and Slave were used. Or San Francisco wanting to ban the Blue Angels from flying during Fleet Week for terrorizing families in neighborhoods. And don't get me started on "ban paper bags, use plastic bags instead" in the 1990's to "ban plastic bags, use paper bags and pay per bag instead" in the 2010's.
On the bright side, the Great Nanny State of California will soon mandate that helmets and other protective gear be provided for each scooter — after they make it legal for scooters to ride on the sidewalk first. I predict this will be a short lived fad.
Construction of the Google Village with 20,000 employees in downtown San Jose will is start in 2025. This will be an interesting case study. San Jose has always been a bedroom community with more housing than industry and virtually empty in the day while surrounding cities and San Francisco are filled with workers. Google Village will bring more traffic to downtown. However, it will be located next to a major transit hub with VTA buses and light rail (Silicon Valley), Caltrain (Gilroy/Silicon Valley/San Francisco), Amtrak (San Jose/Oakland/Sacramento), BART (Coming Really Soon! San Jose/Oakland/San Francisco), and the bullet train (Coming Someday! Los Angeles/Central Valley/San Jose/San Francisco/Sacramento). If you can't afford rent in Silicon Valley, you should be able to afford something in the hinterlands.
I tried explaining to my father to 1) not to look at naughty bits, 2) don't use his debit/credit card when prompted by a scary security warning to buy THIS SOFTWARE RIGHT NOW, and 3) don't interrupt the weekly scan from the AV software that I installed. Never works.
Silicon Valley doesn't have any "new" land to build on. Everything was set aside for development or torn down to build higher. Residential towers are being built in downtown San Jose and mixed developments (ground floor retail and four stories of apartments or condos) are popping up along the light rail lines. I'm just waiting for the "luxury" real estate bubble to pop.
Anti-growth policies keep more housing from being built, and extreme regulation drives companies away.
Google plans to build a new downtown San Jose campus for 20K employees. Apple is buying up land for a new campus in North San Jose. Adobe bought a lot across the street from their current San Jose headquarters to build a new tower. So much for "extreme regulation" driving away companies.
Except a "highly lucrative career" doesn't always panned out. A friend spent $64K per year for four years to send his daughter to NYU to become a Broadway star. While she had minor roles in off Broadway productions during the summers, she never landed a role after graduation. She came back to home to work at Staples while working for free in local productions. She will be a star — someday.
I was an English lit and still took Calculus in college (probably because I like math). The only course I went out of my way to avoid was biology with a lab. I managed to convince a counselor that Electronics 101 satisifed the science with lab requirement. Being an English lit didn't prevent me from starting my technical career in Silicon Valley.
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Sacramento had a severe rain storm in the late 1990's that sent river levels to top of the levees. A news camera crew were recording the high water level at a pedestrian bridge when a salmon jumped out of the water, flopped across the bridge, and jumped back into the water. That was the highlight for the evening newscast since flooding was minimal, the levees didn't collapse and no one died from their own stupidity.
I read 18 volumes of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series in 54 days. That's about ~7,000 pages. A fast paced story that never bogs down about aliens, first contact and languages. Volume 19 just came out but I haven't read it yet.
People who get hung up on what phone they are carrying are usually people who are least likely to afford an iPhone. I know several people working minimum wage jobs in Silicon Valley who are ordering the iPhone XS MAX 512GB for $350 down and $46 per month. They would be better off financially by buying a pre-owned iPhone 7 outright for $288.
One such recent example included the manufacturer’s labeling of equipment where the words “Master/Slave” appeared to identify the primary and secondary sources. Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.
According to one rumor, Apple was supposed to introduce the iPhone 9 and iPhone 11 on 9/11. That rumor didn't pan out for some reason.
But this year, that meant calling it the iPhone XS. Never mind that XS is the abbreviation for extra small — not an adjective Apple wants for its $1,000 phones — but say “XS” out loud. In the age of smartphone addiction and devices that cost as much as some refrigerators, “iPhone Excess” may not be great for branding.
Instead, the new iPhone XS is pronounced “iPhone 10S,” or as the audience at the Apple event quickly realized, “iPhone Tennis.”
Add the new iPhone XS Max to the mix and you’ve got “iPhone Tennis Match.”
No comment on the iPhone XR. Maybe the "iPhone Tennis Rogue - Serena Williams Edition"?
For a final project in Small Group Communications, my four Vietnamese classmates appointed me to do all the work and be the speaker because I was white. So I did all the work and spoke in front of the class. Our instructor, a black woman, gave me all their credit for the assignment and forced them to retake the class. They screamed "white privilige" all the way to administration and their complaint landed on deaf ears. They couldn't prove that they did anything to merit a grade and cheerleading from the back of the room doesn't count.
The background file for my national security clearance got stolen by the Chinese a few years ago That contained a lot more information than the credit reports that Uncle Sam requested from all three bureaus.
All the baby boomers will be retired and outnumbering workers in 2030.
I had an IBM AT with 20MB RLL 5.25" hard drive and ran a WildCat! BBS in the early 1990's. The nice thing about a 20MB hard drive was I could buy a box of 3.5" diskettes (20 count) for $20 and back up the entire system as a 20-part zip file.
Where did I write that I was against helmets? I gave up riding a bicycle (yes, with a helmet) 20 years ago because soccer moms thought it was okay to drive me off the road (or go through the landscaping on a street corner) with an SUV to get their little devil spawn to school in the morning.
People who like to winge about California often have never spent much time in the various parts of California.
I lived in California for all my life. I'm somewhat familiar with the Great Nanny State of California. For example, Los Angeles tried to ban IDE cables because the terms Master and Slave were used. Or San Francisco wanting to ban the Blue Angels from flying during Fleet Week for terrorizing families in neighborhoods. And don't get me started on "ban paper bags, use plastic bags instead" in the 1990's to "ban plastic bags, use paper bags and pay per bag instead" in the 2010's.
On the bright side, the Great Nanny State of California will soon mandate that helmets and other protective gear be provided for each scooter — after they make it legal for scooters to ride on the sidewalk first. I predict this will be a short lived fad.
Construction of the Google Village with 20,000 employees in downtown San Jose will is start in 2025. This will be an interesting case study. San Jose has always been a bedroom community with more housing than industry and virtually empty in the day while surrounding cities and San Francisco are filled with workers. Google Village will bring more traffic to downtown. However, it will be located next to a major transit hub with VTA buses and light rail (Silicon Valley), Caltrain (Gilroy/Silicon Valley/San Francisco), Amtrak (San Jose/Oakland/Sacramento), BART (Coming Really Soon! San Jose/Oakland/San Francisco), and the bullet train (Coming Someday! Los Angeles/Central Valley/San Jose/San Francisco/Sacramento). If you can't afford rent in Silicon Valley, you should be able to afford something in the hinterlands.
Move the conference for a guy who no longer knows the whole kernel in Linux?
That marketeers have four seconds to catch somone's attention before they move on to — Squirrel!
The NYPD can now go after the purple people eater.
Woodward's bool: TRUE or FALSE?
Revised version: "Office 365 +/- a day as the new intern plays around with the power switch."
I tried explaining to my father to 1) not to look at naughty bits, 2) don't use his debit/credit card when prompted by a scary security warning to buy THIS SOFTWARE RIGHT NOW, and 3) don't interrupt the weekly scan from the AV software that I installed. Never works.
Silicon Valley doesn't have any "new" land to build on. Everything was set aside for development or torn down to build higher. Residential towers are being built in downtown San Jose and mixed developments (ground floor retail and four stories of apartments or condos) are popping up along the light rail lines. I'm just waiting for the "luxury" real estate bubble to pop.
Anti-growth policies keep more housing from being built, and extreme regulation drives companies away.
Google plans to build a new downtown San Jose campus for 20K employees. Apple is buying up land for a new campus in North San Jose. Adobe bought a lot across the street from their current San Jose headquarters to build a new tower. So much for "extreme regulation" driving away companies.
Except a "highly lucrative career" doesn't always panned out. A friend spent $64K per year for four years to send his daughter to NYU to become a Broadway star. While she had minor roles in off Broadway productions during the summers, she never landed a role after graduation. She came back to home to work at Staples while working for free in local productions. She will be a star — someday.
I was an English lit and still took Calculus in college (probably because I like math). The only course I went out of my way to avoid was biology with a lab. I managed to convince a counselor that Electronics 101 satisifed the science with lab requirement. Being an English lit didn't prevent me from starting my technical career in Silicon Valley.
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