Tales from the Technoverse

  • Their Finest – B+

    Ellen and I went to see Their Finest today and enjoyed it quite a bit. The movie is set in 1940 London and tells the story of create a film to glorify the rescue at Dunkirk both to encourage the British homefront and also to show America that they should get into the war in support of…

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  • Passover 2017

    As I write every Spring, each year we hold a Passover Seder at our house inviting anywhere from 15-25 people over. It is a very special time for both Ellen and myself. Since I have never been very good at Hebrew, Ellen has allowed me to adapt the Seder focusing on a theme we agree…

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  • What Is The World Coming To

    Last night I saw a commercial for a prescription medication. When the patient started talking the printed text on the screen said “Actor portraying a real person.” What in heaven’s name did that mean?

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  • My Current Aspirational Goals – Email Edition

    These days at the University of Maryland University College, I find that my goals for the day revolve around my email in-box. Each day is a bit of a war, my goal is to end up with no more than the number of emails in that in-box than I started the day with.

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  • Welcome to 2017

    Happy New Year to everyone, I hope that this coming year brings happiness to everyone including the ability to determine what happiness is. These days the most common thing that Ellen and I do December 31st is we go out to dinner, see a movie, and then come home and attempt to stay up to…

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  • Being Articulate at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC)

    A significant number of students have taken courses at other post-secondary institutions that need to be looked at and credit given which can count towards achieving a UMUC degree. The process of doing this examination as you might imagine is sufficiently important enough to UMUC to result in a formal effort. The result of each…

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  • What is Information Systems Management?

    For close to two years now, I have been the Program Chair for the Information Systems Management, IFSM, major for the undergraduate school, cleverly called The Undergraduate School (TUS), at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC).  By something probably a bit more than coincidence that is the same major I graduate in from the…

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  • Hacksaw Ridge

    Ellen and I went to see Hacksaw Ridge last night. Even Ellen, who dislikes Mel Gibson, who directed the film, intensely, thought it was a very good movie. The story was based on the real story about Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. In this case for saving…

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  • Daylight Savings Time

    Ignoring for a moment that Standard Time remains standard less than 50% of the time, which is a metaphor in my opinion or today’s world, it occurs to me that if ‘falling backward’ is such a great idea perhaps we should continue to do it every day, adding an hour on a continuous basis. Perhaps…

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  • The Black Widow by Daniel Silva

    I seem to always need something else to do when I am doing something, which probably says something about me I am not sure I want to examine. Music when I am working. A book to read between innings at a baseball game or between periods at a hockey game or between halves at a…

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