Retrospectoscope
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Second Thanksgiving in Washington
One year ago, we were in an AirBnB apartment in Seattle. We got our TG dinner from Whole Foods. We were in the process of buying a house (inspection was the 25th; TG was the 26th). Today, we are mostly moved in. We'll have dinner with Rich's brother, sister-oin-law, and two friends of theirs Continue reading
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One Year Ago Today
One year ago, today, we packed the rest of our belongings (those we weren't shipping in 2 PODs and many containers) in and on top of two cars, loaded the cats into one car, and started the two-day (should have taken three days) drive north to Seattle. It's been an adventure. Continue reading
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An Early Memory
(I wrote this essay yesterday as part of the CBEST "writing" test. The topic was "an early memory".) My sister's birthday is tomorrow. She was born in early September, five months before I turned four. My parents and I had traveled out of town for the weekend, to visit my grandparents, who lived about an… Continue reading
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Lifetime Achievements
I was born in January of 1960, in central Pennsylvania. I grew up in State College, a University town dubbed a "statistical metropolis". It was (and still is) a pleasant and progressive place to grow up. A lot has happened in the past 50+ years, not just for me but for the world. Continue reading
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The 6 Stages of Technology
These were originally presented in a talk by Stu Feldman, given at a USENIX conference in approximately 1988 or so… A "technology" can be anything: software, a technique, a process, a document, a product… (I think Stu originally had only 5 stages. Either what I have numbered 0 was missing or 2 and 3 were… Continue reading
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Loma Prieta – Remembering 1989
October 17, 1989. 17:04 Pacific time. 25 years ago. I was on CA 85, having left work (at Apple, in Cupertino), heading north to pick up hubby Rich where he was working in Mountain View. The car bucked; I pulled over, thinking I had a blown tire. A lot of cars pulled over. Hmmmm. At… Continue reading
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Thirty Years Ago This Month
Thirty years ago this month (Sept 1984), we packed everything into a 24-ft U-Haul truck with a VW camper minibus on a tow bar, and drove across the country from Fort Washington, Maryland, to Walnut Creek, California (2830 miles). The original plan was to rent a house (owned by a friend who was moving to… Continue reading
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I am an Introvert: Thank you
From many of the things I read online, I realize that I really need to say "Thank you" to my parents for the way they raised my sister and me. Far too many people, growing up, were apparently told, pushed, or nudged in directions they didn't want to go, or directions that were just wrong… Continue reading
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Haskell
At a techie Meetup last night, I met an IT guy who programs in Haskell. Haskell is described as a "polymorphically statically typed, lazy, purely functional language". The language is named for Haskell Brooks Curry, "whose work in mathematical logic serves as a foundation for functional languages". * I've never used Haskell, the language, but… Continue reading
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A Year in Tweets
Inspired by Facebook’s “Year in Status” application, I excerpted “A Year in Tweets”. Continue reading
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