Tales from the Technoverse

  • Batman v Superman – My Thoughts

    Since I wrote about the fact that I was going to see Batman v Superman on Sunday, a few people (to my amazement) actually asked what I thought about it. And since anytime I can talk about something that does not tie directly to the 2016 Presidential race is a happy place for me, I…

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  • Going to Movies as a Singleton

    So early this morning I am going to go see Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. There are some movies that Ellen just does not want to see, mostly those based on comic books (though she is selective, she just generally avoids those that get terrible reviews and on reflection probably should avoid those with…

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  • Let Them Eat Cereal

    The other day Ellen told me a life lesson that a friend told her (and I know I am paraphrasing here, since my porous memory has become even more so). Her friend said that a mother should know that if she waits long enough eventually everyone in the family will just eat cereal. Something I…

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  • Robot and Frank

    I just finished my latest watching-while-walking-on-the-elliptical-walker movie, Robot and Frank. It is a fairly short film, just shy of 1.5 hours that tells the story of an aging jewel thief, Frank Langella, who is given a healthcare robot to take care of him because of a failing memory and general inability to take care of…

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  • Who Knew

    In the continuing series of my realizing that I am out of touch with, well, just about everything, Ellen informs me that Downton Abbey, whatever that is, is not about an Abbey. Next she’ll probably tell me that the show Dawson’s Creek was not about a creek. There seems to be nothing that I can…

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  • On C-SPAN at the Karl Rove Book Signing

    If I had a bucket list, which I do not (I suppose creating a bucket list is my one current entry in my bucket list), and if being on C-SPAN was on that list, it has now been met. Last year on December 12 we returned home from our entire family visit to Disneyworld and…

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  • I Think Not

    For reasons I am not sure I can articulate I am on an email list from academia.edu (I guess because I play one these days at UMUC). I received an email from them today generated I assume by some automated search engine saying they had found 90 papers that I may have written including one…

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  • Comcast Is Not On My Favorite Companies List

    I have two and a half goals when we have a major storm. First, have power. Our neighborhood has buried power lines which means no trees to fall and break a connection in the neighborhood. However, eventually the lines go above ground outside the neighborhood and therein lies the problem. The neighborhood seems actually to…

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  • Madame Bovary

    Being married to someone who focuses so much on books inevitably rubs off (a little). So even though I read my books generally on a Kindle, unlike Ellen who reads her books in a, for lack of a better word, book, I still have tried to read more, rather than just play Guild Wars 2,…

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  • Kids Are Getting Too Smart These Days

    A year ago, actually one year and five days ago I started work at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) as a Program Chair for Information Systems Management. Yesterday morning at synagogue I was told that the 13 year old son of a friend of ours noted that it was a good thing that…

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