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In Praise of BISH Graphics

One of the Mem­o­rable BISH Graph­ics Hav­ing spent a good twenty years pro­duc­ing and pre­sent­ing thou­sands of slide pre­sen­ta­tions and now the last seven to ten years sit­ting through an aver­age of twenty, or per­haps more (the mind numbs after … Con­tinue read­ing

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Train Wreck Cleared and Now the Streets Have Been Swept

Well, the great train wreck has been cleared. The data­base is restored. Word­Press is prop­erly rein­stalled. The vast major­ity of the Plu­g­Ins are back run­ning prop­erly. Posts, Pages, and Com­ments are restored and in their orig­i­nal con­di­tion. All orig­i­nal Posts … Con­tinue read­ing

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Train Wreck Cleared

Well, the great train wreck has been cleared. The data­base is restored. Word­Press is prop­erly rein­stalled. The vast major­ity of the Plu­g­Ins are back run­ning prop­erly. Posts, Pages, and Com­ments are restored and in their orig­i­nal con­di­tion except for some … Con­tinue read­ing

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It Was a Compliment, Once My Ego Got Out of the Way

Fol­low­ing my most recent surgery, I was able to return to work much more quickly than I was able to fol­low­ing any of my pre­vi­ous surg­eries. This was true because of the nature of the sur­gi­cal work that was per­formed … Con­tinue read­ing

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42 (10.10.10) The Answer — Just Don’t Panic and Know Where You Put Your Towel

In cel­e­bra­tion of today, 10 Octo­ber 2010, we remem­ber Dou­glas Noël Adams, cre­ator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a true modern-day clas­sic in which we learn not only the “Answer to the Ulti­mate Ques­tion of Life, the Uni­verse … Con­tinue read­ing

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Time Bandits, or Do We Blame the Gadgets

I want to spend more time with her. There is just never enough. Some of the time away is the cost of life. I do have to leave her pres­ence to go to my work. There are rewards for that … Con­tinue read­ing

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We Know So Little — Yet Won’t Fund Science

After the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon plat­form dis­as­ter, approx­i­mately 275 mil­lion gal­lons of oil were released into the Gulf waters. Only 25% of the oil has been recov­ered, destroyed, or is known to have washed ashore. There is quite a con­tro­versy brew­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Technology Changes — Revisited

Geezer-Chick wrote in a com­ment to yesterday’s post about tech­nol­ogy chang­ing that “Com­put­ers have improved while get­ting cheaper. Not many things do that.” This made me think about just how much the com­put­ers in my life have changed. I first … Con­tinue read­ing

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