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Today’s AFCEA Bethesda Panel on Leveraging Data
This morning was the first of two breakfasts that AFCEA Bethesda is hosting relating to the importance of data within the Federal Government with panelists talking about how to maximize the use of the large amounts of Government generated data. The panel was moderated by long-time industry veteran, Wyatt Kash, who currently is the Vice…
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In A World …
Finished watching Lake Bell‘s In A World. This continues the sequence of woman written, often directed, and starred in films that I have watched over the last month. The story is about a woman, well-duh, who, like her much more successful father, is in the “world of movie-trailer voiceovers”. If nothing else, I learned that…
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Spectrum Sharing – A Few Thoughts From My Experiences at the October Workshop
I posted a few weeks ago about the Spectrum Sharing workshop that I was going to help facilitate. The problem that the Federal Government is wrestling with is the increased use of wireless technologies, not just wireless phones and tablets but things like wireless insulin pumps and cars. BTW, I was at a Cybersecurity Conference…
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Two Kid’s Movies This Week
This last week was, among other things (like seeing Fleetwood Mac), a week for watching “young person’s” movies. Our entire family went to the theater to see The BoxTrolls. The BoxTrolls is a stop-motion film about, well, trolls who wear boxes, live underground, and raise an orphaned human boy called Eggs. The bad guy, voiced…
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Fleetwood Mac
It never ceases to amaze me that the reason we were at our second Fleetwood Mac concert in recent years is because our daughters have demanded that we go. Well, have demanded that we go so we can buy tickets for them to go. Fleetwood Mac!! This is a band I listened to when I…
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Ruby Sparks plus a Discovery
I finished watching Ruby Sparks this morning. Ruby Sparks is a ‘cute’ rom-com (romantic comedy) about a lonely author with writer’s block who writes about his perfect, albeit imaginary girl friend, Ruby Sparks. After doing so, suddenly she is there in his apartment. What seems like a perfect situation, perfect only because of the limited male…
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The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espiritu de la Colmena)
This morning I finished watching the Spanish movie, The Spirit of the Beehive. Made in 1973 and directed by Victor Erice, the film is set in 1940 in a small Spanish village. It tells of a girl Ana, and her sister, Isabel. The two girls go to a mobile cinema which plays Frankenstein. Ana for…
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My Top Three Articles Relating to the Federal Government From Last Friday
On Friday, October 24, I was on the Federal News Countdown, hosted by Francis Rose, along with Jenny Mattingley, director of government affairs for Shaw, Bransford and Roth. You can hear the show, and see a picture of an old, bald guy standing next to Jenny, here. The format of the show is each guest…
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A Reminder That My Father-in-Law is a Very Smart Guy
Ellen’s parents, David and Bobbie Elow, visited us this weekend. I am very lucky to have had such great people enter into my life when Ellen and I were married. In addition to important personal and business advice I received at times when I needed such advice, I have learned much about being a good…
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An Example of Why I Enjoy Teaching
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:
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