Retired professor of MIS at EWU/CBPA. PhD in Systems Science, studying neural nets and evolutionary computation. On Mastodon as [email protected]
Eastern Washington University,
Joined July 2008
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I am not abandoning Twitter...yet. I follow a small enough group of people that I've not had many problems wit bots or hate speech. However, just in case Twitter does implode, I have moved most of my lurking to Mastodon. I can be found at
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How can you tell my wife is a church music director? It's a hundred shopping days to #Christmas and she's already playing carols.
It's #hurricaneseason
axios.com/2022/08/26/atlanti…
...if we don't use up all the names this year, can they roll over to next year?
As a boomer who took years to pay off my student loans, I TOTALLY SUPPORT debt Biden's #debtforgiveness program.
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#SocializedMedicine: UK friend had a bad leg injury recently. Ambulance, various medical procedures, 17 days in hospital. Total cost -- zero. That's in British Pounds, of course. In US dollars that would be close to $200K. Now tell me how socialized medicine is bad.
There's an old Coast Guard saying: You have to go out. You don't have to come back, but you have to go out.
#UvaldePolice
#TheBeatles last album #LetItBe is 52 years old. And yes, Paul McCartey was in a band before he was in #Wings. Ask your grandfather.
boingboing.net/2022/05/17/th…
The more things change...
Babe wake up, new reason for this comic just dropped
nonadventures.com/2015/06/20…
Rickrolling Dallas.
dallasobserver.com/music/dal…
I knew it was time to retire when I mentioned rickrolling in my MIS class and nobody knew what it meant.
The Senate has passed a permanent #DaylightSavingTime bill. What happens next? The House will pass it. And then? President Biden should refuse to sign it until the #BuildBackBetter bill is passed.
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Here is Bret Devereaux' primer on nuclear deterrence and the Ukraine crisis:
acoup.blog/2022/03/11/collec…
It's long, but it's the best summary I've seen yet on the topic, and it accurately and cogently describes the limits on NATO's actions.
Fits in quite well with a recent "Do the Math" essay: dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/02/h…
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
A sure sign that Spring is coming -- yesterday I saw a large skein of geese, flying east.
Today is the first day of solar spring. This ends the darkest quarter of the year and begins the three month period when we gain the most daylight. This will be followed by solar summer, the brightest quarter of the year, from May 5th to September 5th.
Why lemming populations cycle. A good #SystemsDynamics #Simulation topic.
macleans.ca/society/lemming-…