http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php In the Eye of the Beholder Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:43:37 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 steven777400@myrealbox.com steven777400@myrealbox.com en September 15, 1958 It was unseasonably cool for September; breezy, with the sky alternating between patches of blue and torrents of rain. My husband was returning, finally and for what I must only hope is the last time, from his naval service. He had enlisted young, right at the end of ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2546&c=1 My ITiCSE 2010 paper was accepted. Of the five reviewers, two gave it the highest rating possible (all 5's); one gave it one 4 and the rest 5s, and the other two were more cautious. Excerpts: The troubling statement(s) I found are the statistical inference that is presented in the Abstract ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2545&c=1 I watched the documentary One Six Right last night on hulu. It's free (with commercials). The movie is outwardly about the history of the Van Nuys Airport in California; but really it's intended to be general aviation propaganda: a movie that pilots can show to non-pilots to demonstrate ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2544&c=1 Lisa and I fired up the BBQ tonight and made Boca burgers. MM bbq. I've been working on a programming project and plagued by a confusing problem... I'm rendering data and I expect it to look, graphically, almost exactly like prerendered versions from the same source.. But they look different, ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2543&c=1 photos We had the plane scheduled for this afternoon and were debating several possibilities. We decided to fly over the hills to Astoria, and then up the Columbia to Kelso, and then back to Olympia. That would be about 1.5 hours in the air and we'd get back around ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2542&c=1 Hmm... Went to UW-T today for a hiring panel. We heard from four people, and reading between the lines didn't paint a rosy picture. Here's the short, short version. Person 1: We outsource almost all our coding overseas. Person 2: Skills and abilities don't influence hiring decisions, we just hire ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2541&c=1 I loaded the FAA airport database into SQL and, to test it out, ran a query to find out what the most common posted approach obstacles are. Here are the results verbatim: TREES 3420 TREE 1623 ROAD ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2540&c=1 Long days, lots of meetings. Our subcommittee came up with a good plan for certain kinds of small programs, but it was rejected. So back to the drawing board. Today at lunch a lady was singing about how far women's lib has come, about how women don't have to ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2539&c=1 http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2538&c=1 In less than a month I'll receive notification of whether or not my paper was accepted to iticse 2010 in Turkey. The pricing on airfare and hotel is quite expensive, about $2000/person. And that's just the fly there, stay inside, fly home cost. Actually, it would be ... http://www.kolls.net/b2//index.php?p=2537&c=1