Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

AI safety today reminds me of aviation safety a century ago with one important distinction: AI consumer cha...

For the last couple of months, my Mac's Time Machine encrypted backups to my 2016 tower Time Capsule haven't been working well. It ...

AWS vs GCP Vibe coding is a great way to create web apps if you know what you're doing. But how do you figure out where to deploy your a...

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...