In one week, I will turn 68 years old. When I started this blog, I had just turned 60. I called it “Two Thirds Done” because I felt that I had an excellent chance of living into my 90s. Many of my direct ancestors have lived into their 90s. I still think that. My dad … Continue reading
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Drinks with Finis Conner leads to contemplating the future history of rotating storage devices
1980 – The world’s first gigabyte-capacity disk drive, the IBM 3380, was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (about 250 kg), and had a price tag of $40,000( $113 thousand in present day terms [13]), 2.52 GB 1980 – ST-506 first 5¼ inch drive released with capacity of 5 megabytes, cost $1500 Last week, I was contacted by Finis … Continue reading
If we can not agree on past have can we agree on the future
I have watch the first three installments of the Stone Series, “The Untold History of the United States”. I find it very interesting and powerful but somehow I don’t think it really was that way although I am sure many of the points are correct I read a lot of reviews of the show. … Continue reading
See where you tax money goes and puke
Every year when I file my taxes (which I actually have to pay quarterly), I wait for the IRS to send me a thank you note but it never comes. Today, I thought that it would be wonderful to have an app that would let you see where you tax dollars went. I did a … Continue reading
The Hacker’s Revenge
If you have not already read my first post on this please read it here. I thought I was done with the hacker but also had a sense that maybe I was not. This morning, my wife got an email from the admin at the financial institution where the hacker had tried to have money … Continue reading
Hacked! How it happened , what I did and what you should do
My email account was hacked and how I learned about it I was recently hacked in a very serious and scary way and am still dealing with it. I got an email from the person that administrates my accounts at one of the major investment banking companies. It was in response to an email that … Continue reading
One of my mentors has passed-Mort Ruderman a real Mensch.
There were five men that played a major role in my professional development. I just learned that one of them passed on last year, Mort Ruderman. I worked for four of these men but not for Mort. Mort was a friend who played a major role in my professional development over a fifteen year span. I suspect that everyone that has some significant professional success can point to a few people that made that success possible. I know that I would not have achieved the things I achieved if it was not for these five men. Continue reading
Could Qualcomm really buy Intel: It is all Heddy Lamar’s fault
Learning today that Qualcomm has a market capitalization that is now greater than Intel’s, makes me a bit sad and disappointed in myself. Continue reading
Mormon versus Jewish Population Growth: The Importance of a good Sales Force
Given the potential election of the first Mormon president, Mitt Romney, I have been trying to learn a bit about the Mormon faith and was pretty amazed to find out their are now more Mormons then Jews. Jews have been around for more than 5,000 years and Mormon less than 200 years. So I have been trying to understand how this happened. Continue reading
Definition of the Middle Class
Definition of the Middle Class After watching the Presidential debate last night, I now realize the difference between the two presidential candidates when it comes to the definition of middle class. Romney must think that anyone who does not have a zero to the left of the decimal point is middle class. That is, people … Continue reading
