Fri Mar 27 13:05:00 EDT 2020

Country after country are discovering people sick with COVID-19 and imposing lockdowns. Why aren't they getting it? By the time people know they are sick they have been infected for weeks. And they have probably been infecting others. When you start to see people sick, the virus is already spreading through your ( Read more... )

Sat Dec 1 19:24:14 EST 2018New Mexico Resident's ID Temporarily Rejected as 'Foreign' By D.C. ClerkA New Mexico man applying for a marriage license in Washington, D.C., this month had his state driver's license rejected as a form of identification because a clerk and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country ( Read more... )

Sun Sep 1 14:03:59 EDT 2013

I'm in NC this weekend. It's been a fairly busy week; I'll see how much I can remember....

All our staff offices are gone from the Alexandria site. Thursday/Friday a week ago the data center was taken apart and loaded on trucks for NJ. The Alexandria site was our primary production until the new site in Beltsville, MD ( Read more... )

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:48:16 +0000

Remember the story "Stone Soup"? From the Wiki-P:The Stone Soupercomputer was a Beowulf computer cluster built at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1997. A group of lab employees had applied for a grant to build a cluster, but it was rejected. They decided to build a cluster anyway, using desktop computers that ( Read more... )

I started a new job this week, but I didn't go in to the office until today because I've been waiting on a clearance investigation and an ID badge.


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