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Comet and aspen leaves

Seeing a comet is really a rare joy. Since there is one up right now, and it wont be visible for another 80,000 years or if ever, it really made makes me think of those timelines which are so hard to understand and grasp. A space.com article said it is making its “first and last appearance.” The brief nature of the comet for us on earth made me think of all the cool aspen leaves that I have seen on the ground this fall....

October 15, 2024 · 1 min

Swim Run Study

The plan was to run to the pool and then swim, but then it started to look rainy. By the time I made it in the pool it was starting to rain. I was glad to not be running in the rain. What you might not know is if its raining over a large body of water, each rain droplets bounce upward in the pool as the surface tension of water breaks gravity....

October 14, 2024 · 1 min

Starship and Network Simulator

Woke up really early on a Sunday by my alarm which somehow was still set from a early morning race. Luckily this was launch day and my overall impression of the launch was that I am really surprised that the Booster was caught by the chopsticks. I was also surprised that the Starship still had a bit of tile issues near the flap. Later in the day I re-started my learning for the CCNA with a change, from studying subnetting to using the network simulator to start learning how to interact with routers and switches....

October 13, 2024 · 1 min

Advocacy

Really happy when plans come together. Its been many months since we first started to scope out the Colorado Rail game. Today was the first meeting with the project manager who is helping guide the project. What struck me was how much research he did to understand the game. From comparing the game to others, to figuring out what the color scheme is, to asking who the target audience is to understanding the flow of the game and the attractions....

October 11, 2024 · 1 min

Boot.dev vs Coursera

When I think about online study I often think of Coursera, However, I now thint its a bit too passive. I need to be using what I learn. So I looked at my Coursera courses and didn’t see anything except a TCPIP course. I wanted to do something a bit different tonight so I logged back into my Boot.Dev course and click start over on Python. For right now I want interactive and practical....

October 10, 2024 · 1 min