Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Frankly, the intermediary website GRCPool.com and Gridcoin.us left a lot to be desired. The site is not monitored as well as it could be. Projects that are listed as acceptable for research may not be. Updated information is not consistent from one listing to the next. I found one project IContinue reading “My Gridcoin experiment is done”
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BOINC and Gridcoin futures
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Well, you get to see the update anyway. First, disease research has found a possible new treatment for COVID-19, so that part of it, at least, is a success so far. Mining for cryptocurrency, though, could be doing better. In my first two weeks as a Gridcoin miner, I generatedContinue reading “BOINC and Gridcoin futures”
BOINC and Gridcoin mining update
Saturday, July 18, 2020 First, recently I heard about the following related to one of my BOINC research projects rosetta@home: “We have some BIG NEWS: Researchers @UWproteindesign has succeeded in creating antiviral proteins that neutralize the new coronavirus in the lab. (These experimental drugs are being optimized for animal trials now.)” The heck with GridcoinContinue reading “BOINC and Gridcoin mining update”
BOINC and Gridcoin
Sunday, July 12, 2020 I have been participating in data-crunching projects for BOINC for the better part of 20 years. This started as crunching data for SETI@home and was followed by many other projects. Currently, I have been working on COVID-19 treatments. Being awarded points has always been somewhat interesting, at least as far asContinue reading “BOINC and Gridcoin”
My first year at Cal, Berkeley
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 In my early days at UC Berkeley in 1972, between dodging demonstrations over various things I saw as interruptions to my education, I began to see certain characters who formed the backdrop of my college experience; the extras in my college story. The first impression of Berkeley was provided by theContinue reading “My first year at Cal, Berkeley”
On joining the Weather Underground (www.Wunderground.com)
Monday, June 15, 2020 I have joined the Weather Underground. Not the militant radical one found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground, but this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(weather_service), an internet-based weather service that uses weather information from volunteer weather station operators. Although both originated at the University of Michigan, that is where the similarity starts and ends. Since I was aContinue reading “On joining the Weather Underground (www.Wunderground.com)”
Cats will be cats- Now
Returning home from my workday, I readied myself to work through my list of things to do before it was time to start dinner. I glanced outside and saw something in the backyard I could not quite identify. Maybe one of the cats had gotten into something. It always was easiest to blame the cats.Continue reading “Cats will be cats- Now”
To Old Friends and New Friends- Now
This is about friends. As I have gotten older, and maybe because of some things that happen from time to time in my life, I get into moods where I ponder the imponderables I might be better off forgetting. No, maybe that last bit is not true. I would never want to forget anything, especiallyContinue reading “To Old Friends and New Friends- Now”
A brief interlude on the bay at sunset- Then
It was a rare date night with my new girlfriend, Sarah, not for lack of trying, but more for lack of money. Our Trip to Ghirardelli Square was via the Golden Gate Transit Ferry. It was more romantic than it sounds, especially for a couple of high school kids on a limited budget. It wasContinue reading “A brief interlude on the bay at sunset- Then”
Memories of Young Love: The Day a girl I called told me her House House was on Fire
I was busy with newspaper and yearbook obligations as a junior in high school, and I was hoping for something to happen in the romance department. I had been doing a few columns with my long-time friend Paul for our school newspaper. He tended to be more of a serious reporter type than I was.Continue reading “Memories of Young Love: The Day a girl I called told me her House House was on Fire”
Memory is the Key 