It’s an amazing fact that Democrats, or liberals if you want to call them that, are afraid to speak up and promote the main things that they are all about.  They have to break through that reluctance and start talking about this very loudly and directly.  Let’s visualize a Democ/… Read full post »

I spent most of this week continuing to develop a custom design for an artificial neural network (ANN) that performs visual object recognition (VOR).  All but one day at the library.  Pack the computer in the backpack, walk to the library, smuggle in a coffee, fire up the PC and go,/… Read full post »

He gradually awakened, once again surprised at his dream, in which he was deeply involved in some sort of business with others.  That would be normal for most other people, but it was anything but ordinary for him.  He didn’t have friends as equals, at least not close friends.  A/… Read full post »

Spin News is reporting that a group of heretics has disavowed the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM).  These “Apasteists” as they call themselves have broken ranks with the Pastafarian church.  Thomas Blogwash, the spokesman for the group, stated “I have never… Read full post »

My father died almost 12 years ago, and during all of the years since then I still can’t quite figure out what kind of relationship we had.  He kept personal things and emotions to himself.  My most vivid memories of him are of him sitting in his chair, a little disgruntled. … Read full post »

The library has been my office for about a year and a half.  I had been working for a small struggling company whose owner called me at home one Saturday morning to let me go.  I decided that I would learn Silverlight, a hot new Microsoft development tool, with the hope/… Read full post »

Republican candidate debate,   Selma, Alabama.  Sponsored by Fox News and an unnamed Super PAC.

The 347^th debate for the Republican Presidential candidates of 2012 is about to start and the Fox News reporting of the events of the day has fired up the suited contestants. … Read full post »

The movie “A Beautiful Mind” has some appealing aspects for those of us who secretly wish to be part of the intelligent and productive elite.  While watching the movie, one could walk along through Princeton University, look at the rooms with fine old polished wood walls, walk thro… Read full post »

I started managing the relationship between the executive brain and the emotional brain yesterday.  They are 2 major parts of the brain and they need to work together if you want to live happily and be productive.  The executive part makes decisions based on reasoning.  The emotional p/… Read full post »

I awoke today to find a white blanket of snow covering the city of Green Bay.  Large flakes of heavy snow had softly fallen, so the effect was stunning.  No matter that this is the end of March, when most people are yearning for warm sunshine and green grass.  I put/… Read full post »

There are some things about the Christian religion that, if you think about them objectively, are downright bizarre.  You slap yourself on the forehead and say “wha…?”  Let’s examine a couple, because as Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot just by wat/… Read full post »

It started near the end of the year.  Several members of the family got colds.  Kathy got it too.  But when everyone else got over it, she was still coughing.  After a few weeks I suggested that she go to the doctor, but she thought that the cold would go away/… Read full post »

The media had a field day with Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice.  He had a career as a broadcaster but he became addicted to alcohol and drugs.  That became such a problem that he lost his job and became homeless.  On the news shows he claimed to have stopped/… Read full post »

An idea has occurred to many people in the computer science field -- an idea that quickens your pulse and makes you sit up and look at computers in a new way.  It’s the idea that you can create artificial intelligence (AI) by writing a clever computer program.  The first time/… Read full post »

In yet another dispute between a cable company and a company whose channel it retransmits, News Corporation and Cablevision struggled to reach an agreement about how much Cablevision will pay for News Corporation’s Fox channel.  It had an immediate impact on 3 million subscribers who were/… Read full post »

He was here almost every day, sharing the perspective of life with a serious physical problem.  But that was just the surface.  He talked about the way all of us struggle with life’s inconveniences and injustices.  But I think the real value of his blogs was the fact that he went/… Read full post »

Kids are like puppies.  They require stimulation and exercise.  They need to be able to interact with what they are doing.  They need to touch stuff, play with it, and talk about it.  And their young bodies need to move around, not just for a short time, but throughout the day.&nb… Read full post »

I’m walking down the street on the way to the library in Green Bay. It’s 80 degrees , the air is still and so humid that it feels like it is pressing in on me.  I got up late this morning.  It was so hot last night that my wife and/… Read full post »

At first I noticed the e-mails appearing in my inbox sporadically.  They pushed conservative Republican points of view.  Forwarded by my mother.  Her new husband was a Republican and he had been in the military and then the police force, so I thought he was sending them to her.  T… Read full post »

As an atheist, I don’t believe in Heaven, the place where those who follow the rules of a religion go after death.  I don’t believe in Hell either, or any of the other so-called miraculous or magic parts of religion.  But I happened to see a book about Heaven reviewed in/… Read full post »

I spent my high school years at a small Catholic Seminary.  Why did I do it?  It had to do with the fact that  my parents were Catholics of course, and they had me go to a Catholic grade school in my town.  One day a priest who was recruiter gave/… Read full post »

Back in 1973 I was a long-haired college student at U/Wisconsin Stevens Point.  I liked science, so I was a chemistry student.  The chemistry never went anywhere but I did discover computers.  Of course computers were not very advanced at that time, but that was part of the appeal.&nbs… Read full post »