Queensland Blue Heeler Story (Australian Cattle Dog)
RIP Boomerang, 1981-‘93
Just hangin’ around!
31 July 2022
State Board of Ed. Gags Teachers
Don’t make our little darlings *uncomfortable*
Unbelievable.
Will the Oklahoma Legislature pass out tin foil hats when they reconvene? Don’t say “race,” don’t say “sex,” don’t say “gay” …
30 July 2022
28 July 2022
What is the strange, clear liquid falling from the sky?
??
(On the car window you’re looking through)
27 July 2022
26 July 2022
Double Red Alert
Remember that battery pack on your Prius hybrid? Well, at 132,000 miles / 211000 km, or maybe a little later, it’s going to need replacement.
Here’s the US$3000 “hybrid system” double red (hot pink?) alert …
Oh well. It’s only money. :^(
24 July 2022
22 July 2022
Pride of the White Star Line
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The elements (an iceberg) and a German mine sank both her sisters, but Olympic, serving as a troop ship in 1918, rammed and sank a German submarine, U-103, that was stalking her in the English Channel. The prey turned hunter!
She sailed on for many years, into the 1930s, after WW I ended.
; BONUS: (Longest John’s:) Hard Times, Come Again No More
21 July 2022
20 July 2022
19 July 2022
Chicken Egg Rolls, $11 / six
Check your local Panda Express. They’re good, particularly with a little sweet and sour sauce!
17 July 2022
Four Decades Makes a Difference
The cute little water oak near-sapling, spring 1983 …
The same tree in the spring of 2022, some 39 years later after a moderately heavy trimming …
When arborists advise you to leave a 25’ / 7.5 m radius clear area around a tree trunk, they’re not kidding!
16 July 2022
New to the OU campus this fall?
Here’s some stuff that’ll be handy to know.
Oh, BTW, the “Unity Garden” is much better known as the Passion Pit. :^) Just thought you’d like to know.
Six Weeks That Changed Everything
In the summer of 1965, the Texas Aggies and the National Science Foundation turned me loose with an IBM 7094 computer, a FORTRAN IV manual, and some really outstanding math profs, along with a several other interested high school kids. My world hasn’t been the same since.
Almost 60 years later, I’m a long-retired software engineer, and I’m itching to go grab my granddaughter’s Raspberry Pi computer and see if we can teach each other to program in Python.
One of my first programs, an exchange sort as I recall
A write-up from our high school newspaper
The mandatory certificate of participation, signed off by Gen. [James] Earl Rudder, then President of Texas A & M University and formerly the lieutenant colonel who led a group of US Army Rangers up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944 (“D-Day”) See Battle of Pointe du Hoc.
Our classes were held mostly in the old Main Academic Building, where a platoon of vending machines stood in the rotunda. These were well-patronized by students and faculty alike as part of the College Station mid-summer afternoon survival regime. Gen. Rudder’s dog, “Earl,” who had the run of the campus, stationed himself there prominently to emphasize his willingness to accept tips in the form of licks of purchased student ice cream treats. His efforts were usually well-rewarded.
We got a tour of the Texas A & M Research Reactor about mid-way through the program. It was interesting, but I questioned my own sanity for going down to photograph the reactor’s Cherenkov radiation, something of a photon shockwave around the reactor. The radiation pattern is shown below.
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I wrote this in August 1965, long before Google Translate and at the very dawn of sophisticated computer program translators (compilers), but the echoes are familiar:
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1960s “Big Iron” IBM Computers
Big Iron, ‘60s Style (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photos/7916580/la-evolucin-de-los-sistemas-operativos-4-638.jpg?1478234293 link)
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14 July 2022
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