Sorry to hear that. Well, sorry it happened anyway.

A trained monkey could have given me better advice.

Many years ago, I was enjoying the heady lifestyle of a high-priced Silicon Valley contract programmer. One summer, I took a 3 month assignment in PA (through one of the large San Jose talent brokers), debugging a well-known commercial application. The project was very hush-hush and I’m still bound by terms of the non-disclosure, but I can say that I learned a great deal about harmonic motion simulation algorithms on that job.

My commiserations on your mom’s demise.

Don

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Do you mean he resembled Richard Pryor?

Eh… never got into Sterling. He always struck me as a bit of a wanker. Is that the one where they hack weather control satellites?

More like the weather is out of control. Environmental chaos rules and the weather hackers, are tracking storms with homemade gear, seeking a meteorlogical white whale. He is kind of wankish in some of his books, but this one is pretty entertaining. The thought of a group of renegade storm chasers is kind of appealing–even though they are kind of high tech hippies.

He was immediately referred to as THE WHIZ,,,which, I know, has other connotations,,,

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Thanks. She taught me to card count in Blackjack, and she was designing electronic assemblies to military specifications back in a decade when most women still aspired to be housewives. I’ve tossed about the idea of a web tribute somewhere, maybe. She had an interesting life, and left behind the rough draft of an autobiography she was toying with.

And about storm chasing: Ever read _Heavy Weather_ by Bruce Sterling? Its a (reasonably) cyberpunk story about storm chasers in seeking the ultimate thrill: an F-6 tornado. Sounds like fun.

Eh… never got into Sterling. He always struck me as a bit of a wanker. Is that the one where they hack weather control satellites?

Some of the storm chaser groups offer tours of sorts. I think they expect tourists handle their share of the workload, but that’s fine. I *want* to help.

Fudd’s Law is: “If you push something hard enough it will fall over.”

Quiet Desperation Says:
I totally have to spend a summer storm chasing when I retire.

Sorry to hear about your mom. from what I’ve seen here, she raised a smart kid.

And about storm chasing: Ever read _Heavy Weather_ by Bruce Sterling? Its a (reasonably) cyberpunk story about storm chasers in seeking the ultimate thrill: an F-6 tornado. Sounds like fun.

Well, I”m not kid, my mom died three weeks ago and it takes true genius to get as bored as I get.

I wound up going to YouTube (on my Wii using the BIG television) and watching tornado videos for two hours.

I totally have to spend a summer storm chasing when I retire.

It was easy for me to imagine someone typing in fury like that. Of course, I didn’t have the eye to see it was faked.

And what’s Fudd’s Law.

A very amusing post.

My dippy toast soldiers salute you!

I was going for Fudd’s Law

Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
Asstrology works! you just don’t want to spend the time and effort to study it!!!!
Aroma therapy and Feng Sui are also proven beneficial to people and inanimate objects.!!!!!

Next thing, you’re gonna start in on the Scientific FACTS of INTELLIGENT DESIGN!!!!!!

Well go ahead and laugh, you mocking mockers, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your faces when after the Mayan Comet comes in 2015, only those computers with the Crystal Skull(tm) chip still works. But then with your puny mundane computers out of order, you won’t be able to blog your ignorant mocking mockiness!!!!!!!

It’s been passed around my group already — to great laughter. For a day anyway, the techs weren’t making to usual jokes about replacing executive’s PCs with Etch-A-Sketch’s (just shake it to reboot it, Mr. Vice President!) or grousing about having to go and remove malware — again — because users think it’s okay to go and download some cool dooflotchy that they Googled up.