tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63162269569771494832009-09-30T16:23:23.408-04:00Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-24117190497744402872009-07-06T09:35:00.003-04:002009-07-06T09:43:36.098-04:00

The South Carolina Republican Governor should resign. Over the years many politicians have been caught having extramarital affairs. This include Democrats and Republicans. Sanford apparently is confused as to which party he belongs to. Because Democrats seem to think it is OK to continue after getting caught, Republicans resign. Just look at Newt Gingrich verses Bill Clinton. Humans will find

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Most of world has marked the passing three well know figures, Ed McMann, Farrah Fawcett, and Micheal Jackson. I always liked Johnny Carson and him and Ed were two parts of the same package. Every male who grew up in 1970's knew of Farrah's famous poster. I was amused by a quote attributed to her, "when our show was number 3 I though it was because of our acting, when hit number 1 I knew it was

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-58710389736177004752009-06-12T15:19:00.002-04:002009-06-12T15:31:06.098-04:00

David Letterman is in the news for his tasteless joke about the Palin daughter and A Rod. Personally I always preferred Jay Leno. While both are left wingers, Jay is a closer to the middle then most Hollywood types. Should Letterman be fired, or retired, or taken off the air. I don't think so. I don't like the man. I like him even less after the joke and his half hearted apology, but I believe in

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As proud military veteran, as a believer that the Federal government should not impose their will on the States or local communities, as person who thinks taxes are too high and the government is wasteful in its spending habits, and perhaps most of all as a person who thinks the true purpose of the 2nd amendment was not for hunting or self defense, but instead was to keep our elected officials

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-86462941861450675082009-04-02T12:49:00.004-04:002009-04-08T16:50:21.248-04:00

I am not sure what would be worse have a corrupt prosecutor or an inept one. Ted Stevens served his country for many years a Senator from Alaska. He lost the election in 2008. Without a doubt he lost because of the guilty verdict in his trial for taking kickbacks. Even though found guilty, he nearly won. But not that the election is over, evidence has been found that bring the raises serious

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To keep my mind of the mess my country is in I recently started playing World Of Warcraft. I am an old gamer. I started with war game and pencil and paper role playing games back in high school. I've played the original Dungeons and Dragons, as well as other RPG such as Traveller. Once I purchased a PC I made the move to computer based single person RPG, such as Bards Tale and the old Gold Box

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The anointed one was on Leno last night. I give a lot of credit to Leno, he kept to his normal format and treated him as more or less just another guest. He even told jokes about the current administration.The talking heads in the media and trying to make fuss about the bowling – special Olympic joke. While I don’t think it was all that funny, I also don’t see it a big deal. I wonder is the media

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-79053602115870251352009-03-19T15:52:00.003-04:002009-03-19T16:10:39.505-04:00

It appears that the US government has total abandoned the rule of law for the rule of the mob. Talking head in both the popular media and in Congress has been stirring up a frenzy concerning the large bonuses paid by AIG to many managers. They don't care that company has to honor employment contracts. So now employment contracts mean nothing. They can be disregarded in the "public interest".

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I have not been blogging for a while now. After the election I was just too depressed. How could anyone not see the coming train wreck? Put a liberal socialist president in power backed by a radical left wing congress and watch as they proceed to destroy a country our fore fathers spent over two centuries building. Jerry Pournelle over at Chaos manner keep trying to remind us that despair is a

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-17115765439261218092008-11-04T23:06:00.001-05:002008-11-04T23:07:55.700-05:00

Reverand Wright has his wish. God has damned America.

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-44823186790986052992008-10-21T06:40:00.002-04:002008-10-21T06:43:59.202-04:00

I was out of the office last week. While I am not a workaholic by any means, I hate to be out of the office. When I get back to the office, I have not only the work for this week, but also the work from last week. I will be getting caught up little by little over the next several weeks, unless I am out of the office again.

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The week is winding down. I've been in the French Alps for the last week, unfortunately on business instead of vacation. Tomorrow I am flying home and I have that nice long plane flight to look forward to. Where are the supersonic airliners we were promised back in the 1960's, along with the flying cars?

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In the USA, most middle class people with jobs and homes vote Republican, most poor people without jobs and without homes vote Democrat. It seems that Congress is doing it best to make Democrats out of Republican by taking away our money, our jobs, and our homes.I certainly am no lawyer, but I have always thought I understood the government as it was defined by the Constitution. All financial

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-76682031968533139702008-10-06T17:16:00.004-04:002008-10-06T17:23:07.095-04:00

I got a phone call Saturday night from a friend. "Have you seen the news? Was it Lance?"A mutual friend had died in motorcycle accident. A White Tail deer had jumped out in front of him and hit him chest high. He was knocked off the motorcycle. He was wearing a Helmut, but it did not protect him enough. He died from massive internal injuries at the hospital a few hours latter. A life too short,

Jim Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16416571537460194778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316226956977149483.post-11267206554803905782008-10-03T06:33:00.003-04:002008-10-03T06:49:45.226-04:00

Many years ago I was stationed at Grifffiss Air Force Base in Rome NY. It was a bit unusual in that we had a large number of civilian employees. In our unit the civilians did almost all of the i n shop work while the Airmen did the work on the flight line. When working on aircraft you had to carefully inventory your tools. The boxes were to be lock when not in use to keep tools from being "

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Set up TortoiseSVN on my PC today. I've read a lot about version control, but the programming that I do is done by a team of one, me. Almost all of it is robot applications written in a language called VAL3. A nice procedural language for controlling our industrial robots. I even teach training classes on it.I found TortoiseSVN to be very easy to set up and use. For a free application it has very

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Somethings are so easy to predict. A simple 3 page bill sent to the house of representatives is transformed into 100 pages. Just before the vote Democrats then go on a rant blaming everyone but themselves, but mainly the Republicans. They then act surprised with Republicans take exception to this. Immediately them blame the Republicans while ignore the fact they they are a majority and that over

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Recently I was invited to be an adviser for the Computer Science department at our local university. The program is up for its 6 year certification renewal. They invited a several people from local companies who have support them to be on the advisory committee. We had a luncheon with the members of the accreditation committee today.I must admit that I find this ironic as my only academic degree

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I have become a relatively early riser. I am almost always up an hour or so before the rest of my family. The quiet of the morning is enjoyable, a chance to read the paper, to walk around the neighborhood before people start to stir. Maybe it is inherited. My father worked at a factory almost an hour away. On a normal morning he was up by 5:00 AM. If offered overtime he often chose to start work

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I've been reading other blogs for awhile now and I've decided its not too late to join the party. In programmer years I am ancient. I learned programming with BASIC, FORTRAN, and assembler. Today we use .NET, C#, and JAVA. The community has evolved from modems dialing bulletin board systems at 300 bps to multi megabit connections to the internet. As an intelligent son of a lower middle class

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