PDF documents are so common that its actually difficult to imagine any student or professional today not using them extensively. PDF documents fill a special and important niche in the electronic data revolution. To a very large extent they have (thankfully) replaced bulky (and often ridiculously expensive) textbooks. Now you can have a library of…

I just heard the news about the earthquake which struck in Tainan. I feel a special affinity for Taiwan, which is very closely connected with Silicon Valley. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines – and Hong Kong also – all have a special affinity with California and its people and I think we should stick…

Change the name. I don’t know if this is something that has been seriously taken into consideration, whether there have been high-level meetings about this, strategic planning and projections. But, the name has to be changed. It has to be something that is more business-like. Something that is non-agitating. Like the word blue. Or the…

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So it started some weeks ago. After getting the new (used) car, was driving around and wanting to listen to something. Since my other stereo which has a USB connection is not in it, radio was the only choice. Scanning the spectrum I came across a channel playing Chinese music. It is a genre of…

Another dead human in the city, killed by a machine. Then, naturally people question and wonder why the operator of the machine is not punished. The reason the operator is not punished is this: Enshrined in law is the principle that the military-industrial complex is sovereign above everything. Cities are – primarily, first and foremost…

Three of the online computer science courses I wanted to take this semester I cannot get into because they are full. There are so many illegals flooding into this area and they are also now allowed to pay the lower in-state-tuition rates. There is a huge rush of them at community colleges especially for computer…

The death of Earth overrides everything else. I was just thinking about this reality today. I am a person who like many people has enjoyed photography. I like aesthetically stimulating scenes of different kinds and photographing them. Some of the things that are often appealing or stimulating are human made. For example today I saw…

I am trying to learn to play keyboard. I took a class a while back and since then have been practicing and learning on my own. But I am very pissed off. This is classical music. It was written 300 years ago. It is a contribution to the human legacy. This music is one of…