Jon's Corner of the Whirled

Pretty amazing lifelike robotics example. Watch for the behavior of the machine on ice. Boston Dynamics: The Leader in Lifelike Human Simulation.

Lisa called me in a panic this morning, thinking I hadn't paid the cell phone bill. It turns out some part of Portland, and also Vancouver Washington have no cellular service for AT&T at all at the moment. The person on the phone thought it might be back by tomorrow, but she didn't have an ETA. It is an event like this that makes me more aware of how dependent we are on the cell phones for...

John Kerry makes an eloquent, refreshing and reasonable set of arguments about how the world should deal with terrorism. TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | A New Strategy Against Extremism and Terrorism. It is a sharp contrast to the policies and attitudes that our nation have been following....

Our family recently spent nearly a week camping at South Twin Lake, in Oregon. The lake is a nice place to take a family as no motors are allowed on it. It is stocked fairly frequently with trout, so fishing can be productive too. The first day we went fishing, Lisa's father and I caught 8 fish between us, and we kept 4 of them. The evenings (and mornings) were cool, with temperatures in the...

Good Job, Glad he is back to the way he was before the illness.

I am a software engineer by day. Other times, I do other stuff. This blog is my collection of both sets of experiences.

Maybe the chick came back and decided to take the whole plant instead of just the flower.