Musings from the Peanut Gallery

I ran into a problem Monday night where I couldn’t log into my Mac. I got a “SystemUIServer unexpectedly quit” message. After messing around on Tuesday evening, including deleting my ~/Libraries/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file (as recommended on a troubleshooting website) I gave up and reinstalled the OS. Fortunately it went well with no lost data.
My best guess [...]

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In recent issues, Analog editor Stanley Schmidt has been on a witch-hunt over overpopulation. Not sure what touched this off in his mind, but it seems that he’s bought into the Malthusian view that we are in immanent danger of exceeding the “carrying capacity” of the planet. Of course, Thomas Malthus was wrong. And so [...]

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Check out the image of it over on AhrensAdventures.

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Astronomy, Lunar Eclipse

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Got the word today that my contract at Boeing, on the P-8A is being extended until July 3rd. So I am not looking for a new gig for a few more months. Based on the program schedule, I don’t expect anything beyond that.

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boeing, P-8A, Contract

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There’s been a discussion on the Lean Software Development list this weekend concerning lean in the airline industry. Much of the discussion has been around what constitutes batch size.One posting pointed out a post concerning the dirty little secret about lean in the airline industry, in that almost none of the airlines are even thinking [...]

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I’ve been playing around with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and using Google Web Toolkit Solutions by David Geary as a source. Using Netbeans 6 on the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), on dual proc @.0 Ghz PPC PowerMac Pro, and using Glassfish V2 as the server, I get an RPC failure when I attempt to [...]

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TCSDaily has a report on “experts” opinions on polar bear populations.
The report is well worth reading, but here are the high points:

Polar bears have survived periods with much warmer temperatures than we are now experiencing or likely to experience in the near future
The studies assume that the sea ice predictions of the General Circulation Models [...]

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I’m using Cutline 3-Column Split 1.1 by Chris Pearson as my theme at this blog. For some reason, the comments are messed up on Firefox, either Mac or Windows. I haven’t checked Linux.
How the comments look in I.E.:

How the comments look in Firefox:

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Arnold Kling discusses the situation with our American Health Care System, and how government control tends to reduce quality, sometimes deliberately.
He uses his father’s case as an example of how the current directions in health care are actively destructive, having caused him much pain that could have been prevented, if consumers were driving [...]

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From the RVTravel Newsletter:
Jockey Frank Hayes died from a heart attack during a race in 1923. His horse, Sweet Kiss, won the race, making Hayes the only dead jockey to win a race.

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Funny, Trivia

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