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Archive for the ‘NERDS’ Category

Big Brother

August 28, 2022

Some folks think that the internet is watching us for other than benefical reasons. Here is a graphic of what GOOGLE monitors. You be the judge – which most of us / you are anyway.

Lost Words from our Childhood

May 19, 2020

I got this from my not-very-old Aunt Gerry. I wonder where she got these from? Lost Words From Our ChildhoodMergatroyd!       Do you remember that word?  Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd?  Heavens to Mergatroyd!  The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about […]

Jesus’ Younger Brother

November 14, 2018

What if Jesus had a younger brother? Would Jesus have had to baby sit him when Peter, or was it Joseph, and Mary went out to shop or for dinner? What kind of role model might Jesus have been and how would he influence this younger brother? Some one asked me, today, if I would […]

Quoting Andy Weir – The Martian

January 12, 2018

Andy Weir is a software engineer / programmer who wrote a book: “The Martian” as his first novel. At the end of this book, he wrote: “… human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true. If a hiker gets lost in the […]

An Inside Joke

June 18, 2017

Do you know what an Inside Joke is? It’s a joke that only works inside my head!  That’s an Inside Joke. And by the way, that, in itself, is an Inside Joke!   However, since you are here, why don’t you check out some of my other blogs: IT’s Lost Art of Software Engineering: https://softwareengineeringhandbook.wordpress.com/ […]

And for my next trick…

November 9, 2016

The American People elected a new President on November 8th 2016. The rumors and speculations about WHY they chose this one instead of any other candidate have only just begun. Some may say that is because the Silent Majority decided that they finally had a non-political choice and have been waiting for the chance to […]

History was NEVER my favorite subject, but…

October 3, 2016

Wouldn’t it be interesting if, at some point during his Presidential campaign, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton asked, “Oh, by the way, has anyone in Washington DC ever heard of the McCarran-Walter Act Of 1952“? I did not know of this Act, but it has been a law for almost 65 years. Here are the […]

1947 to 1948

March 15, 2016

This should give you a laugh…Just thought you should know… The year was 1947. Some of you will recall that on  July 8, 1947 , more than 65 years ago, numerous witnesses claim that an Unidentified Flying Object, (UFO), with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside  Roswell ,  New […]

When did the Internet Begin (found in email)

August 17, 2015

HOW THE INTERNET STARTED…THIS IS ACTUALLY  ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE ( KING ARTHUR VERSION ) . (THERE’S NO SENSE TRYING TO USE GOOGLE FOR THIS ONE, OR EVEN CHECKING WITH SNOPES… THEY EITHER WILL LIE TO YOU, OR JUST DON’T KNOW. TRUST ME !:-) In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader […]