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Month: December 2008

  • Last Thoughts from 2008 (updated)

    George Rebane 2008, the year of fearsome foibles, is ending appropriately for me.  This morning, when starting to put on my contacts, I discovered that I had flushed them down the drain last night after taking them off.  I have worn contacts since 1961 (47 years!!) and their manipulation is a thoughtless process for me. …

  • Singularity Signposts – 30dec2008

    George Rebane Cold computing as envisioned by several physicists (e.g. Frank Tipler) and computer scientists (e.g. Hans Moravec), and predicted by futurists (e.g Ray Kurzweil) is a step closer as reported in ‘How Small Can Computers Get? Computing In A Molecule’.  A team of French scientists (please hold applause and/or snide remarks) at the French…

  • The Ultimate Ponzi Scheme

    George Rebane A correspondent sends the nearby cartoon and reminds us again that if we judge the government by the same standards that its citizens are judged, then the government would be the biggest crook of all.  All this comes under the growing time-bombs of unfunded liabilities which are set to go off across the…

  • Ruminations – 28dec2008

    George Rebane Emeritus Professor Robert Johnston, UC Irvine, will be presenting on land use and transportation modeling in the age of anthropogenic global warming.  This will be on 18 Feb 2009 in Incline Village (details here).  Of course, the whole presentation starts with the revealed truth that AGW is real as inscribed on the stone…

  • A Christmas View from the Left

    George Rebane     According to folks like Wiley, the borrowers were otherwise responsible people who thought that ARM was a body part when they signed the loan papers.

  • A Respite of Joy

    George Rebane Today Christians in the western tradition celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation.  Our Eastern Orthodox brethren maintain the old Julian calendar and will celebrate Christmas on 7 Jan 2009.  This lag has been in effect since the 16th century when our modern Gregorian calendar was adopted to great consternation in Europe.  In many…

  • The (NY, LA, …) Times They Are a Changin’

    George Rebane We’re all aware of the travails of newspapers and most MSM news outlets.  There are many factors blamed for newspapers limiting deliveries, many shutting down, broadcasters reducing their news gathering staffs, etc.  Lot of the blame is being directed at the Internet and the growing population of bloggers.  For reasons easy to understand,…

  • Ruminations – 21dec2008

    George Rebane Happy Winter Solstice to everyone.  At 4:04 AM PST this morning the sun was exactly overhead somewhere at the Tropic of Capricorn latitude in the southern hemisphere.  For Jews everywhere Hanukkah, the festival of the lights, starts this evening at sunset.  Christians have today lit the fourth candle of Advent and await the…

  • Dr. Ants Leps – RIP

    George Rebane My friend Ants Leps died last night.  Ants was a lifelong teacher and retired as a professor of mass communications and media from California State University – Northridge where he taught for many years.  His passing is another of those milestones that we now seem to encounter more and more often. Ants and…

  • A December Weekend in Nevada County

    George Rebane   Our house guests went home yesterday afternoon after sampling a bit of winter in the Sierra foothills.  Shortly after Gary and Vicki arrived, we had a big dinner with Christmas music in the background and a roaring fire while the snow was blowing outside.  After dinner we were relaxing around the fireplace…

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