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  • Now Hiring

    George Rebane “New college graduates may be entering the worst job market in decades, but there are still some majors that pay off—and all of them are in the applied sciences.”   So starts Joe Walker’s piece in the 12mar10 WSJ covering the current job market for recent graduates.  A table of average starting salaries for…

  • The Seasons

    George Rebane It was always green.Then how quick the colors came –is that a snowflake?

  • Avatars Lauren and Bogie, Together Again

    George Rebane In the early 1980s my firm in Los Angeles had just bought and installed the most advanced computer graphics system available.  It was the second one on the west coast (the other one belonged to a big aerospace company) and we used it to create multi-media images and videos for the then new…

  • Christmas in Stettin, 1944

    George Rebane Sixty-five years ago we celebrated Christmas 1944 in a small uninsulated cabin the Germans called a Behelfsheim, a ‘temporary accommodation’.  The Third Reich built these to house the tide of refugees fleeing the Red Army then rapidly advancing from the east.  Our cabin was in a long row of such cabins next to…

  • Banana Squash – A Fond Farewell (updated 24nov2009)

    George Rebane Now I don’t claim to be any kind of an expert in cooking.  But over the years I have demonstrated that I can whip up a dish or two that requires more than a piece of dead cow and BBQ sauce.  Back in the 70s I accepted the challenge of coming up with…

  • Sixty Years Ago Today – 4 May 1949

    George Rebane   At first light on 4 May 1949 the USS General Harry Taylor (above) had already slipped through the Verrazano Narrows by the time my father and I joined the other men and boys on the deck of the troopship.  We all wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and the lights of…

  • 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…

  • We Miss You Harry

    George Rebane Old Harry got more than he bargained for in April 1945 when they handed him the schnitzel, told him FDR had died, and that he had the watch now.  The Allies in Europe were closing in on Berlin, and Okinawa – one of the greatest battles of the war – was starting in…

  • Ruminations -7may08

    George Rebane * VE Day remembrance* Ethanol realities come home to roost* Vallejo’s Bankruptcy* Some Left-wing Views on Illegal Aliens* Repairing the family washing machine VE Day.  Sixty-three years ago my mother, father, and I watched elements of Patton’s Third Army roll into a small farming village near Monheim, Germany.  We had walked into this…

  • Road Ruminations – 27apr2008

    George Rebane Las Cruces is a city of about 70,000 in southern New Mexico.  It is a modest bedroom community for the various government facilities (White Sands Missile Range, Holloman AFB, …) hereabouts and is also within commuting distance of El Paso, Texas.  For us it is a rest stop on the way to visit…

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