I was more than a little surprised to read news of Artemis 2 crew using Microsoft products on their current Moon mission.   R e a l l y ?  Why would they do something so ridiculously risky? Apparently, NASA chose Microsoft as the crew-facing OS since they all run it in their homes. INTEGRITY-178 tuMP (Time-Variant Unified Multi-Processing) is the realtime OS being used to control mission-critical systems. Phew!  It's bad enough that Trump has installed a Musk-buddy NASA director from the...

In the late 70s I got a job delivering powdered cement in bulk to well drilling sites around the western half of Oklahoma. It was hard work but nothing to linger at for very long at all. It did have its pleasant aspects, though, allowing me to drive around different nice places. Around broken mesa lands . . . Over much smoother prairies . . . Threading through granite foothills . . . And across vast grasslands. A summer job paying a decent wage, it was enough to fund a couple more years in...

After making a big deal announcing a primetime speech, the convicted felon in the White House shoveled out his boasting, begrudging, belittling, blah, blah, blah, as he always does. Absolutely nothing worth listening to, much less worth heeding as anything of significance.