Personal Goal – Programming

Today I spent some time on looking at some of the goals I want to achieve sometime this year. One of those goals is to learn Python 3 programming language formally.

What does that mean?

Formally to me means that instead of learning the language by trial and error, I actually take a course on it online. I find that I personally learn much better that way. One of the obstacles to accomplishing that task was the fact that I quit my Lynda subscription.

Unfortunately, once I did that I could never go back to just using Lynda.com. It is now LinkedIn Learning and I don’t know why but I’ve never cared for LinkedIn and I remember purposely removing my profile from the platform. I don’t remember why but that was a long time ago.

At any rate, I’ve signed up for LinkedIn Learning and we’re off and running. I think 30 minutes a day spent on it is a reasonable goal. I’ve hit 47 minutes today with a Getting Things Done course along with the start of the actual Python course by Bill Weinman who is awesome but also makes me want to take a nap. I’m pretty sure that is the same guy who taught the SQL course that I kept falling asleep in the middle of.

In any event, I believe that without taking small steps every day you’ll never reach the place you are trying to get to.

I am so passionate about daily writing right now that I just couldn’t imagine NOT doing it. If you would have asked me 6 months ago if I could write a couple of short stories during our busiest time of the year I would have laughed in your face.

Not only did I write two stories, I almost finished three of them.

There isn’t a point to this post other than to affirm that I think I am on the right track and to remind myself to not give up.

January 3, 2021 by Blah Blah Blah

The Scientific Love Affair with Dark Matter

This is an official rant.

Dark matter doesn’t really exist. I want to start of this quick little blog post with the facts.

A quick summary about what it is…

Dark Matter was created to explain behavior in other celestial objects that science cannot explain while making observations from Earth.

Instead of trying to understand the thing they cannot understand our science community feels that creating something out of whole cloth to explain it makes sense.

It does not.

It goes against the very principles of science itself. Whatever happened to observe and record?

Dark Matter and it’s creation clearly demonstrate what is wrong with our modern scientific community.

This almost reminds me of the time man created something else to explain the world…what was that again?…oh yeah, religion.

January 2, 2021 by Blah Blah Blah

Happy New Year!

I almost forgot.

 

It is a new year today.

The following is a clip from my announcer from the Take That! Radio days. It sums everything else up perfectly.

Hoping Next Year Won’t Suck

January 1, 2021 by New Year

Peak Season Wrap-Up

If you were expecting an extending post about the trials and tribulations of peak season, you won’t find it this year.

It was a relatively calm year. Great leadership made all of the difference.

We’re now on to bigger and better things. One of those things is a major component upgrade.

Woo Hoo!

January 1, 2021 by Blah Blah Blah

Night Shot

This is a picture I took this morning around 5:00 am. The sun isn’t anywhere close to being up yet but the camera makes it look as though it has. The cloud details are stunning.

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December 17, 2020 by iPhone Camera

Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter theory

I can get behind this one.

Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter theory:

Here is the current theory…

So, dark matter proponents theorize that most of the known universe is actually made of material that doesn’t interact with light, making it invisible and undetectable— but that this material accounts for much of the gravitational pull among galaxies. It has been the prevailing theory for nearly 50 years.

Here is the alternate theory which I happen to believe because I think it is more plausible. I don’t think the answer to an unsolved question is to “make shit up” which is what the dark matter theory is.

Instead of attributing the excess gravitational pull to an unseen, undetectable dark matter, MOND suggests that gravity at low accelerations is stronger than would be predicted by a pure Newtonian understanding.

In addition, MOND made a bold prediction: the internal motions of an object in the cosmos should not only depend on the mass of the object itself, but also the gravitational pull from all other masses in the universe—called “the external field effect” (EFE).

Milgrom said the findings, if robustly confirmed, would be “the smoking gun proving that galaxies are governed by modified dynamics rather than obeying the laws of Newton and of general relativity.”

December 17, 2020 by Science

Posting Blues

I realize that I haven’t posted anything on here for about 10 days. In honor of the pending snow storm we are supposed to get, I give you a picture of snow from the other day.

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December 16, 2020 by Snowmagedden

Fuckery

This is a true story.

Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name – Fugging – after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear.

They finally grew weary of Fucking, its current name, which some experts say dates back to the 11th century.

If I lived anywhere near there, this would be me…

Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for social media.

November 26, 2020 by Uncategorized

Reading

Currently Reading
Hal Spacejock Omnibus One
Hal Spacejock Omnibus One
Author: Simon Haynes