I was at Comic Con about 10 years ago when I wandered past the Mattel booth. They were selling hard-to-find Hot Wheels and the area was packed with people hoping to add things to their collection. One item, in particular, caught everyone’s attention. It was a model of Wonder Woman’s
The Right has been remarkably consistent in their message. All lives matter. Back the Blue. Violent protests are wrong. Biden stole the election. Masks are stupid. Recognize the pattern yet? Exactly. We’ve been saying the same things for months. The Left? Not so much. Sometimes they flip-flop on the issues,
There’s an acronym in computer science called GIGO, it stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. It means that if your process uses a flawed input, the output will also be flawed. There are three things that people tend to confuse. Those are, data, information and knowledge. It’s important that everyone
I travelled to Montreal once. Well, several times actually. It’s a nice city. But, I always found being there to be a bit unsettling. There’s something slightly off about it. It’s like being in an American city, but not quite. The street signs don’t look like they should, some of
The only way you’re going to take anything away from reading this is if you can have empathy for your fellow Americans. Being the curious guy that I am, I did a bit of research and found that lack of empathy is one of the major indicators of psychopathy. And,
If you want to slowly change your environment, you use air conditioning. But what if you wanted to slowly change an entire country? Yesterday, I was in the parking lot of our local range, waiting for it to open. A guy about my age came up and started talking with
I’m writing this on Wednesday, January 6th as I watch the counting of electoral votes. The first thing I saw was Nanci Pelosi telling people that there could only be 22 members on the floor. The rest of the people needed to sit in the gallery. One person from Virginia
Once I was asked at a job interview what my biggest strength was. I replied, “forward error correction.” The interviewer gave me a look that said, “What the hell are you talking about?” I explained that “forward error correction” is a method used during data transmission to help ensure the
I was watching an episode of Star Trek: Discovery last night and saw a cameo appearance by Mr. Spock. He has spoken many a wise thing over the years and I suspect that, given the chance, Mr. Spock would have quite a lot to say about the 2020 election. If
In 2017, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota stated that the rural (Republican) areas in Minnesota are “mostly rocks and cows.” In August of last year, he said that the Minnesota National Guard was made up of “19-year-olds who are cooks.” Rural Minnesotans have a wry sense of humor. They took