Smart People

One of the greatest benefits to working with bright people is bright conversations. There are people in this world who I yearn to be near for no other reason that one of their amazing ideas may be there for me to feast upon when they are done. Every so often the pleasure is mine to meet and talk to these individuals. What I learn is added to my arsenal as both an engineer (little e Engineer) and a person. ...

August 23, 2008 · 3 min · Nick

Memoirs are Dead

In a world of twitter and 140 character posts, how will the world change in the realm of memoirs? My memoirs are here, each blog a cross section of my intellect and soul. In the past it was the desire after someone’s passing to know their deepest thoughts on a subject or introspective review of self. It is no longer a need to wait for that moment or read a book, the internet holds them all. ...

August 16, 2008 · 1 min · Nick

Government Planning Perfection

I was allowed to leave the Air Force with no strings attached in 2003. I found this slightly odd as I had a special security code attached to my AFSC making me a rarity and highly critical to every base and deployed location. Who am I to argue with the govt. if they want to let me go? I receive this email yesterday: Dear Veteran, My name is TSgt Bob Marley. I am the Recruiting and Retention NCO for the 224th Joint Communications Support Squadron and the 165th Air Support Operations Squadron located in Brunswick, GA. The reason I am contacting you is because according to the Inactive Ready Reserve database, you once held one of these 5 critical AFSC’s: ...

August 16, 2008 · 2 min · Nick

Centrally locate iTunes and iPhoto Libraries

You took the bite, you bought two Macs. It is a dirty feeling that you can’t wash off as you had the fact you now I contemplating purchasing a Steve Jobs black turtleneck sweater. One thing ol’ Steve hasn’t given us Mac Geeks yet is a central server. We are disposed to store things in one mac and hope for the best. You, the reader, are in luck as this geek isn’t the garden bred Mac type, but rather a UNIX type. With a little command line voodoo we will centrally locate those libraries. ...

August 3, 2008 · 3 min · Nick

Drobo for me

Oh darn Dad! Looks like I got your Drobo :)

August 1, 2008 · 1 min · Nick