In one of my graduate classes I teach at the University of Maryland University College, we had a question thread this week relating to the Internet of Every/Any Thing asking students to imagine new ideas that they hadn’t read about.
This resulted in the following on-line exchange:
I’ll be on the Francis Rose hosted Federal News Countdown this coming Friday at 4pm, on WFED, 1500 on your AM (yes, they still broadcast on AM) dial. The format of the show is two… Counting Down
I have been asked to facilitate a workshop which will attempt to move the dialog along about spectrum sharing. The workshop will be all day October 21st at the National Science Foundation
It is one of the action steps that resulted from President Obama’s Memorandum on “Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution”, further discussed in a report produced by the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in July, 2012.
Over the last few months I have been meeting with members of the Wireless Spectrum Research & Development Senior Steering Group (WSRD SSG) to help plan the workshop. It has been a pretty exciting opportunity for me to work with such a talented and smart group of people. In addition I have learned much about the issues that need to be dealt with to make more spectrum available.
Sharing Is Not Always An Easy Thing – Federal-Commercial Spectrum Data Workshop
There are, at least, two things that my daughters mention that I never did for them. I never took them fishing (of course I have almost never fished) and I never took them horseback riding (I guess I did that a little bit myself but it violated my ‘feet-are-on-the-ground happy place’ approach.
The movie I just finished, Buck, deals with horses.
Buck Brannaman, is the prototypical what-we-think-a-cowboy-should-be cowboy (I guess I am overusing hyphens this morning). He travels around the country teaching people how to ride horses better. In fact he is really teaching them about how to treat horses better. As he says in the movie (paraphrased), “People do not have a horse problem, horses have a people problem.” And what he really is teaching is much about the riders themselves about themselves.
George Will has an interesting column today about rent seeking as it applies to teeth whitening.
Rent seeking is an economics term used when someone attempts to achieve additional profits without creating actual value. It often is used to describe situations when someone uses the government to implement policies that reduce competition to allow this incremental profit to occur.
The situation described in George Will’s column discusses the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners. The NC Board has said that only licensed dentists can perform teeth whitening and, in fact, has also asked the North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners (I wonder if Maryland has such a thing) to forbid licensed cosmetologists from performing teeth whitening also.
When one represents that shrinking number of people who actually still rent actual DVD’s to watch (my Netflix queue is up to around 490), some things end up being a mild irritant that others would… Life’s Little Annoyances
There are times when I am not sure I am in sync with Tennyson’s “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”, at least to the extent one applies it to rooting for a sports team.
For most of my life I either was a fan of a really lousy baseball team or had no team at all to support, having grown up in or just outside of Washington DC. While painful, it was sort of a calm, comforting painful. Low intensity, though at the time I did not recognize it as such at the time.
However, this has now all changed. Over the last three years, the Nationals twice had the best record in the National League (once the best in baseball) sandwiched around a season where they were favored, and failed, to do that still a third time. In the two years they made the playoffs, they lost in the 5th game of the initial five-game playoff series, after leading 6-0, a game I attended in 2012, and lost in four, last night, by giving up one run on a bases-loaded walk and another on a wild pitch. At least this year, the loss was out-of-town and I merely watched it on TV in tense agony until it ended after midnight.
By the way am I the only person who seems to wake-up around the same time no matter when I go to sleep?
So Friday morning when I woke up early, something I unfortunately seem to have inherited from my father who also was an early rising, when I went to my home/office and looked at my computer keyboard I found a gnome hat, made by my wonderful wife Ellen.
So naturally the first thing I did was take a selfie.
As I have mentioned before most (it should really be all) mornings I walk on an elliptical walker down in the basement and watch movies.
It usually takes 3-5 days to watch each movie, or if it is a TV show series (for example, I just finished season 1 of Once Upon A Time), I watch one show each morning.
While I have not as many foreign films in recent days, they are among my favorite ones to watch.
There is an interesting article about the Department of Defense database used to track security clearance revocations. The article talks about a database which had been setup to keep track of those people who had… Out Is A Cybersecurity Problem