Author: Chris Johnson
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Stealing Pies
There is this trope in story telling of the vagrant, hobo, bum, or cartoon character steeling a pie from a windowsill. It is good story telling. But, in my opinion, we forget what is actually happening. We can go to the supermarket and buy a decent, almost edible, pie for 5 dollars or so. We…
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The Education Industry
My wife is a teacher. She is a darn good teacher. She has a couple of masters, is working on another, besides having a bachelors. She is constantly doing continuing education classes. For years, I would talk about The Teachers Union in a negative light. She took that as a personal attack because she is…
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The Internet Is Forever
We live in a strange world. There is so much information at our fingertips that it is almost impossible to comprehend just how much of an information age we live in. I’ve talked about this in the past, my mother was a telephone operator, as was her sister. They worked in a large town in…
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If Your Message Is Good, Why Lie?
A First Principle is that two things can be true at the same time. I can be fat and I can be old. Both are true, at the same time. Next, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? 50 years ago, a picture was worth a thousand words, and it could…
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AAR – TDY Dad’s House
Dad is in long-term care. He will never return to the home he shared with his wife, my mother, for the last 20+ years. Last week was a hard trip to say goodbye. He was in good spirits and doing “ok”. He is not nearly as sharp as he was a couple of years ago.…
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The Fourth Circuit Be Clowns Itself, Again
An interesting thing is happening within the circuit courts, those judges who are tired of seeing the majority rubber stamp any infringement a state wants, are speaking out. They are taking their lead from Thomas, Van Dyke and others who have spoken up to shed light on just how badly these rogue judges are behaving.…
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Taking care of infrastructure
I started caring about computer infrastructure in the early 1980s. We feed our computer via punch cards, 9 track tape, and a few dozen hardwired terminals at 4800 baud. We upgraded our network. We got our IBM 3090 on BITNET. I learned more about networking. We upgraded to 10base2 when our Sun 360s arrived. More…
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Olympic Shooting Sports
There are 15 shooting sports in the current Olympic Games: 10m Air Rifle Men 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 10m Air Pistol Men 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Trap Men Skeet Men 10m Air Rifle Women 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women 10m Air Pistol Women 25m Pistol Women Trap Women Skeet Women 10m Air Rifle…
