Tales from the Technoverse

  • Avoiding the Super/Puppy/Ad Bowl

    Perhaps it is only because we do not host or go to any Superbowl parties. However, we are here today with my annual not-watching the Superbowl game day. My normal activity for the day is to go to a Washington Capitals game, they typically play early on the day the Superbowl is held and today…

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  • Synagogue, Big Bang Theory, Charlie Chaplin, Bill Cosby & Korean Fried Chicken

    Today’s parsha at Synagogue starts a VERY lengthy description of the buliding of the Mishkan (or Tabernacle). The Mishkan housed the Ark of the Covenant (shades of Indiana Jones) and in Hebrew means residence or dwelling place (for God). As Amy in the Big Bang Theory pointed out to Sheldon, Indiana Jones actually was irrelevant…

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  • Wendy and Lucy

    I just finished watching Wendy and Lucy, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wendy_and_lucy/, which I very much enjoyed.  The story line is pretty simple. A young woman played very well by Michelle Williams, Wendy, and her dog, Lucy, on her way to Alaska to hopefully get a good paying job is stranded in a small town in Oregon when her car…

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  • Next Meeting of the National Capital Area Chapter of HIMSS

    For those interested in Healthcare and IT, and these days who isn’t, the next meeting of the National Capital Area Chapter of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is tomorrow evening, January 16,  at the Key Bridge Marriott: http://www.himss-nca.org/#!. Students are able to attend for free.

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  • The Future of Cloud Computing (AMARC Cloud Computing Panel)

    As the cloud providers who formed a line to undergo the intensive FedRAMP vetting process begin to receive authorization from the GSA Joint Authorization Board, the federal government’s commitment to cloud computing has never been more tangible. The question for cloud providers and buyers alike is no longer “will the federal government embrace the cloud?” …

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  • American’s Belief (or non-belief) In Evolution

    I read a column in the Post that noted that Republicans (not me) are growing more skeptical about evolution while Democrats are increasing in their belief, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/30/republicans-growing-more-skeptical-about-evolution/. I then went and read the source Pew Research Center poll which was the basis for the column, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/12/30/publics-views-on-human-evolution/. This poll had a lot of interesting data. The actual question…

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  • How Is Counterinsurgency Like the Way the Human Body Fights Disease?

    Last week, I attended a Brookings Institute event, which focused on analogies between the human body, and how it reacts to disease and how nations react to insurgency. The speakers were General Stanley McChrystal, formerly commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and now a senior fellow at Yale University, and Kristina Talbert-Slagle, an associate research…

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  • Federal Cloud Computing Summit – Slides and Media Notes

    For those interested, the Federal Cloud Computing Summit web-site has been updated with the slides posted and a series of links listed detailing media coverage of the event, http://www.cloudfedsummit.com/winter2013/

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  • Federal Cloud Computing Summit – Great Fun

    The Federal Cloud Computing Summit, held earlier this week, was a rousing success; great attendance and interesting panels. It was an honor for the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center, AMARC, to host the Summit.

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  • 90% of the Cells in the Human Body Are, In Fact, Non-Human

    No, this is not a reference to the latest Zombie movie and is not a typo. I was reading the latest issue of Science magazine which listed its top science subjects for 2013 (it is that season for lists). Their top subject was Microbiome. If my daughters were still in high school, microbiome would immediately…

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