Random Access

Thursday
Juneteenth.

Today was pretty good. Work was… a little slow, but not hellishly so. Having run into a bit of a brick wall with the form that I’ve been working on, I put it on the back burner and started on a new one. I’ll come back to the old one next week.

After work, Jess, Mary and I went out for dinner. We introduced her to the concept of and reason for drinking beer through a straw; she had never heard of it. We decided to run across the parking lot and have coffee/dessert at the Village Inn…. and ran into and . Nox made a comment that we shouldn’t have been so surprised to see them as that V.I. has become our “Cheers.” He’s right, it has.

Returned home and faced another round of driver/program installations on Jess’ computer. Most everything seems to be in place now. There are a few apps that have to go on, but things are looking good.

NPR Stories

• Gay Marriage in Canada
• U.S./Canadian Cultural Differences
• The Science of Superheroes This segment made the comic geek in me very happy. And, the guests were not only well-versed in the sciences; they were funny.
• The First Civil Rights Bus Boycott
• Company Announces Space Mission for Tourists
• Baseball Pioneer Larry Doby Dies

Stray Toasters

• We’ll lead off with something that was sent to me by Kate (one of our regular servers at Village Inn):
  

• Scientists Grow Decaffeinated Coffee Beans WHY?!? Coffee without caffeine is like Burns without Allen. Like yin without yang. Like Maddie Hayes without David Addison. Like… like…. Alcohol without the hangover. O_o Okay, that one isn’t such a good example, but you get the idea.
• Clockwise: Beast, Gambit (possibly Wolverine), The White Queen, undecided and undecided. I’ll leave the last two for the others to determine.
• Holy Knight Rider, Batman! Honda Motor Company has devised a new collision-detection system. Apparently it starts working before the driver responds. Read about it here.
• The U.K. government has been “urged… not to commission open-source software, and particularly not software covered by the General Public License.” Who is behind this? A group backed by Micro$oft, IBM, and Intel, among others.
• Using slingshot power to hurl objects into space…
• A couple of days ago, I posted a link about Sen. Orrin Hatch wanting to destroy computers that had pirated/unlicensed software on them. According to this, the good senator has a skeleton in his closet… or his hard drive, as the case may be.
• From comes: The Incomplete Worlds of Billy Shakespeare

“…and that’s all I have to say about that.”

Namaste.