Published at February 3, 2007
in Rants.
The National Center for Family Patterns Research is a privately funded social science lab that gathers information that is specific to learning factors, patterns, and risk factors relative to the U.S. marriage rate trends, number of children in families by ethnicicity and locale, and a host of others. It’s not particularily easy to examine, nor is it user friendly.
The Center gathers quite a bit, but not all, of the data directly from the decade-interval U.S. Census. The census, though it’s not, must be regarded as factual demographic quanititive information. Continue reading ‘Washington’s ‘Center for Family Patterns Research’’
Published at February 3, 2007
in Rants.
I’ve got what has become a mini-chasm on the back of my right hand. I first noticed it about a month ago.
Continue reading ‘Now, it’s my hand’
In the years I’ve been doing this code stuff - I know this is really stupid - I’ve still yet to find a really elegant way for systems to handle addresses. You’d think that by this time, I’d have some kind of magic mdoule that I could plug in to any software system to deal with this problem.
Well, you’d be wrong! This problem is a constant nag to me, mostly because I see thesolutions implemented by others. I’ve never taken it upon myself to build something that would really work.
What does that mean?
Continue reading ‘Addresses - still a problem…’
Published at February 3, 2007
in Rants.
I retract my decision to emigrate to Kampala, Uganda, in the Spring of ‘08. There’s too much still to get done here. I steadfastly, though, refuse to watch very much TV except, say, once in awhile or when I’m with friends watching movies. It slows my brain down and I don’t like that sensation very much. Further, I won’t have to spend a staggering fortune to come here and visit my kids and their future kids. On the other hand, getting gouged by the U.S. Tax Code, gasoline prices and stuff, I may be better off flying to central Africa once a year and having enough change left over to by a couple of DVD’s to watch. I hope I’m not screwing up.
