December 20, 2020 The soundtrack of my Christmas memories as a child was largely provided by one Christmas record. This record was by a group you might have heard of, 101 Strings, and was called “Christmas Moods.” At that time, this record became part of my family Christmas memories. It was given as a promotionalContinue reading “My Christmas mood- now and then”
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Camp Fire- Paradise Ca, The Second Anniversary
November 01, 2020 November 8 will mark two years since the Camp Fire occurred. It burned most of the town of Paradise off the map. Judy and I were there that morning. We shouldn’t have been. We didn’t know what was happening. I relied on my phone’s warnings to alert me that we were drivingContinue reading “Camp Fire- Paradise Ca, The Second Anniversary”
Good writing can make you cry- now
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 It can make me cry, anyway. Of the relatively small list of people I have as good friends, five that I know of, write. One of those has published five novels. Another one is close to publishing her first book. Another could and should write a book about her life, butContinue reading “Good writing can make you cry- now”
My Gridcoin experiment is done
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”
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)”
Re-established Interests- Amateur radio
Saturday, June 6, 2020 Somewhere back in time, shortly after meeting my wife Judy, I told her that I had always wanted to be an amateur radio operator. This was in part due to one present from “Santa” when I was a kid, a cheap pair of walkie-talkies that worked fine if the two usersContinue reading “Re-established Interests- Amateur radio”
Memory is the Key 