Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Outgoing Introvert

Yeah, this is probably me. I’ve been thinking of myself as a social chameleon, an introvert who has made an effort to survive in social situations, but maybe this is more accurate.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Some work-based humor

Bwahahaha! These work-related humorous tweets are a cut above most of the clickbait I run across out there! I lost so much time reading through them, before I realized they just keep on going, and I was in danger of spending the rest of my life there. My sides hurt from laughing. Some of them had me thinking of you - you know who you are! I’ve gotten really good at skipping over the ads - sorry if they bother anyone.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Cupola Cam back online

Another of my many simple pleasures - the Littleton Courthouse Cupola Cam is back online! This is a little user-controlled web camera that's mounted on the top of the courthouse. They have a predefined location called the "Cupola Cam Greeting Spot" that points the camera toward a spot on the sidewalk just outside the courthouse. Here's a snapshot I took of myself, using my iPhone, while I was out walking today.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Google Maps fake business listings

Here's a good, but really disturbing to me, article about the millions of fake business listings on Google Maps. Y’all be careful out there!

Apollo 11 mission 50th anniversary

Wow. Fifty years since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Pretty significant anniversary! With the TV running nonstop with Apollo stories on Smithsonian channel, I was motivated to pick up my copy of the book “Apollo: the race to the moon“ and re-read the chapter about the Apollo 6 flight, which had multiple failures, and still satisfied its mission parameters. What a story! The Flight Software on that vehicle was amazingly robust!