Passing is a term for a person with both black and white ancestors who encourages others to think he or she is white. I recall a blonde woman talking about her father having told people he was Greek in order to pass.
Has anyone really seen members of the black community excluding people who admit a white parent or call themselves biracial?
Reverse Passing? Kidding… Right?
Reverse passing is a term for a person with both black and white ancestors who encourages others to think he or she is…
NASA: Challenger Explosion
Twenty-five years ago today my teachers had us all gather in a classroom. A teacher was being sent into orbit. The intent was for us to see a historic event. Instead we got to see even bigger history being made as the Space Shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. The disintegration of the vehicle was blamed on failure of the o-rings to contain the hot gases. It grounded the shuttle program.
When I attended Space Camp over a year later, the program…
The question of why we run ten clusters came up recently. Off the top of my head, the answer was okay. Here is my more thoughtful response.
Whenever I have been in a conversation with a BEA (more recently Oracle) person on Weblogic, the number of nodes we run has invariably surprised them. Major banks serve ten times the number simultaneous users we have on a half dozen managed nodes or less. We have 130 managed nodes for production. Overkill?
There are some advantages they have.
A new Michael Wesch video. He wrote as the introduction:
This video was produced as a contribution to the EDUCAUSE book, The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, edited by Richard Katz and available as an e-Book athttp://www.educause.edu/thetowerandth… or commercially at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967…Produced in 2007 as a conversation starter in small groups. Released in 2011 as a conversation starter online.
Go to a grocery store and get California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizzas. Or DiGornos. These are comparable to the restaurant pizza restaurants around here. Thus I tend to go with strombolis or calzones at the pizza places.
Kindness, especially in the face of difficulty. It is something I would like to better emulate. So I watch for it hoping to get ideas to copy.
OK y’all, most people know this, but to those who aren’t following the rules (and you know who you are):
1. Drive slowly (as in, 25-30 mph). We don’t care if you’re in a hurry, we’d all rather get there than get in an accident and/or not get there at all.
2. Bridges and overpasses are still icy…
I grew up south of the snow line. Maybe that was something my mother invented? Columbus, Macon, Augusta, usually known as the Piedmont Line, for us was the snow line. She watched the Weather Channel every day, so she would groan at all the near misses. She would contemplate driving north to catch it, but for some reason we never went. She was also the one checking outside every hour until 1am looking for flurries.
A selling point of moving to the snow side of the snow line was the prospect of…
With even a couple inches of snow, everything shuts down. Snow day off from work, though if I was the on call today, then I could still check on things with my still working Internet connection.
My web hosting service, Dreamhost, happens to have a one-click-installer for Moodle. So I installed one for my own personal sandbox. In looking at the available roles, it suddenly occurred to me…. Comparing any LMS to another is like comparing an apple to an orange. The industry is like the Tower of Babel. Each product has its own jargon covering much of the same ground in absurdly different ways. How could you have an Internet if all the servers talked to each other so differently? Yet in…
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My resolutions for 2010 involved a lot of reading, improving my cooking repertoire, improving my photography repertoire, and having fun in the present. Back in goal accounting for 2010, 2 were successful and 2 not. Except for the reading goal, the other three were well outside my comfort zone. I forgot my statement for the resolutions in 2009.
Useful resolutions to me are things I realistically can and will accomplish applying moderate effort. Making too hard of a challenge will result…
