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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: September 2010
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Saturday, September 18, 2010. Back after a break. But after the holidays, I could never muster the energy to operate in the "production mode" again. It was simply too depressing to note that whether I was "pumping hard" or I was "slacking off", the result was the same: Zero! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Back after a break.
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: My growing art collection
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Saturday, November 24, 2012. My growing art collection. But this one really is the cluster of mountains. That I can see from the panorama window over my kitchen counter. It is titled "San Roque Canyon" and is painted by John Iwerks. I first saw a larger version of it at the Easton Gallery. Last spring. It was a show with about 30 paintings by each of John Iwerks. And his wife Chris Chapman. Was hanging in a church where I attended a folk music concert. I have written ...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: April 2011
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Saturday, April 2, 2011. If your car is going to have an accident, the best situation is if it happens when you are not in it! So this morning I went to look at the three most likely replacements for my 11 year old Mustang convertible:. A Smart FourTwo Passion Cabriolet (the smallest convertible I know of). A Prius (I have wanted an excuse to test drive one for the last 5 years). Very different wheels, for sure, but each resonates with different desires. I've an IFR c...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: June 2011
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Friday, June 17, 2011. This is a work item from a writing workshop I am participating in.]. I believe that a society where the disparity between rich and poor is small, will be a happier and more stable society. I believe that we have a responsibility towards each other in our community, in our country and in the world. I believe that love is better than intense competition. I believe that a little competition makes us stretch and do a little better. My MPG average is...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: Walking lightly on this earth ...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Sunday, November 25, 2012. Walking lightly on this earth . For several years my doctor has been nudging me to lose weight, and I have tried as best I could, but despite regular exercise, the weight has been inching upwards. At my annual physical exam this summer she repeated the usual lecture, and repeated the suggestion that I should look into the weight management program. This is an excellent program, designed in multiple layers. And finally, significantly overweig...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: Mac is NOT always easy
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Friday, August 7, 2015. Mac is NOT always easy. My laptop computer is a MacBook Pro (8,2 - early 2011 - high resolution display). With a lot of effort I had managed to get it set up for triple boot: I goot choose to run Mac OS, Windows or Linux (Ubuntu at the time because that was the only one that had drivers for the chips in this model). I went back to the Apple store. This time I had them install Snow Leopard. After I got it home again, I reduced the Mac partition ...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: February 2011
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Wednesday, February 16, 2011. Can you believe that IBM is 100 years old? IBM is celebrating 100 years of business in two ways:. 1) They have released a few promotional videos:. 2) They did a marvelous project with the Jeopardy TV quiz show showcasing their artificial intelligence research with a supercomputer that can play Jeopardy, which turns out to require some very fancy natural language processing to understand the puns and ambiguities in the questions.
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: Bringing Manufacturing Home to America
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Monday, April 7, 2014. Bringing Manufacturing Home to America. I came across a pointer to this article from the New York Times:. The story is that a fair amount of manufacturing that fled the United States between 2000 and 2009 is quietly coming back because it actually makes business sense to manufacture close to the customers. Low wages in Asia does not always translate to higher profit margins, for several reasons:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: August 2011
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Tuesday, August 23, 2011. On Being Competitive in the World Market. One of the blogs on the Forbes magazine's website had an aticle a few days ago titled "Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle in the USA". Here is "the money quote":. How whole industries disappear. Circuit manufacturing isn’t your core competence anyway and we could do it for 20% less.”. I highly recommend reading the article (in 4 parts). Wednesday, August 17, 2011. A recent post on blog by a local parish m...
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer: April 2014
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CaliDane - Ramblings of an Engineer. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. The old Hewlett-Packard company has a new name . again. When Bill Hewlett and David Packard started their company in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939, they were devoted to building precision measurement instruments at very competitive prices. Their first successful product was a precision audio oscillator, the HP200A, which was still being built in 1972. In 1984, HP started building inkjet and laser printers. My Linux box had to be replaced .