Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

General of the Armies ("six-star" general) What is the highest U.S. military rank, ever? At first glance, a civilian might say, ...

Watch this video for 20 seconds starting at the two-minute mark. That's me! This was an unexpected surprise that made my morning. Backst...

If you've ever watched Band of Brothers , you'll hear the term "War Department" mentioned several times. You might think ...

In quantum physics, there's the concept of the  Measurement Problem . This basically states that measuring a quantum system which is in ...

On Friday afternoon, a longtime local friend of 25 years, Ron, told me that he would be ending his life on Sunday through "assisted sui...

For years, I’ve had trouble connecting my MacBook Pro to Cox’s complimentary public Wi-Fi hotspots (CoxWiFi). Today, I finally set out to so...

I've been meaning to use AWS Glacier Deep Archive for years because it's so inexpensive. I just uploaded 780.7 GB of data into S3 us...

A close friend texted this me: The most recent time when the Knicks led in the NBA Finals was June 17, 1994 (they would lose the series), an...

There’s an old joke that the CIA set up Facebook for human intelligence gathering since it’s far easier to have people willingly share the d...

Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?  In 2018, I wrote about ho...