Tales from the Technoverse

  • Walk(ing) Off Wins

    So for the last three days (and evenings) Ellen and I have walked to Nationals Park from the Gallery Place Metro, a slightly more than two mile walk. And each day (and evening) the Nationals have had a walk-off victory. Saturday it was a double by Wilson Ramos in the bottom of the 9th, after…

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  • Upcoming Panel on Wearables & The Internet of Things (IoT)

    It’s that time again for another ATARC (Advanced Technology Academic Research Center) hosted Summit. And when there is a summit, there is a research/academic panel that I moderate. The summit is the Federal Mobile Computing Summit, my panel is on Wearables & The Internet of Things. The Summit will be August 19 & 20, this…

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  • Treeless Mountain

    Most mornings I walk on an elliptical walker in the basement and watch movies (or TV shows) from DVD’s from my over Netflix queue (now over 400 DVD’s long). Many of the films I watch are foreign films. I find them interesting both because I feel I gain a bit of knowledge about the country…

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  • A New Lesson From Our Last Walk

    As I have written previously, Ellen and I pick a local park to walk in every couple of weeks. Earlier this week, we went to Black Hill Regional Park, http://www.montgomeryparks.org/facilities/regional_parks/blackhill/. Black Hill is really nice, Little Seneca Lake is there, the trails go in and out of forests. I suspect we will go back there again…

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  • Federal Cloud Summit Panel I Moderated

    I moderated a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing July 9 at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit. The three excellent panelists were: Amol Deshpande, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, Grace Lewis, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, University, and John Messina,…

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  • What I Learned From My Birthday This Year

    As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week. Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent…

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  • Federal Cloud Computing Summit Visionary Panel – Tomorrow July 9th

    I will be moderating a panel about the Future of Cloud Computing at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit tomorrow July 9th at the Ronald Reagan Building starting at 2:45. It should be a great panel with professors from the University of Maryland College Park, Amol Deshpande, from their Cloud Computing Center and from the Software…

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  • Being The King

    This morning, Ellen asked me to keep my shower short (scheduling issues). My response was that since I was the man, and thus the King, of the house, I could do whatever I wanted. In over thirty years of marriage, I am not sure I have ever experienced such out-loud laughter from Ellen, a reaction…

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  • My Two Takeaways From Walking

    One of the activities which I have promised Ellen I would partake more in is walking with her (she really likes to walk). So on a more regular basis we walk around the neighborhood and every few weeks we have started going to parks and walking trails. Since we have both joined the Fitbit generation, there…

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  • What I Learned From The World Cup

    We were in Hilton Head visiting Ellen’s parents when the US played Ghana. We were able to see the first US goal which was very exciting (and unexpected), scored in the first 35 seconds of the match. Around half-time we went out to dinner (I guess illustrating that we are interested but not fanatic soccer…

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