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Desecrating the the Flag for Trump

by Steve Shupe in Desecration · 2 min read

Title 4, Section 8 of the United States Code -- federal law -- is titled "Respect for the Flag." Trump and his supporters make a big deal out of respect for what Trump calls "our GREAT AMERICAN FLAG" (no need to yell, lay off the Caps Lock button for God's sake). Surely Trump sup ...

Loving Caring People

by Steve Shupe in Trump · 1 min read

Laugh-my-ass-off quote from Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale today in Politico: Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale played down concerns of a confrontation [at Trump's upcoming Tulsa rally]. “I've been here since day one, and I found all Trump supporters to be really caring ...

Playing Tourist

by Steve Shupe in Photography · 2 min read

Yesterday I had to vacate the house for three hours for cleaning, so I decided to drive to San Francisco to take pictures and play tourist. First stop, Treasure Island, which I thought would be a good place to take shots of the SF Skyline. For those who don't know, Treasure Islan ...

Randomness

by Steve Shupe in Normal Distribution · 2 min read

One interesting aspect of programming is having access to libraries and functions that deal with statistics, probability,and randomness. What I've found for myself when using these libraries is that my innate "feeling" about probability and randomness is way off. In particular, i ...

Enough Already!

by Steve Shupe in Kensington · 2 min read

It just keeps coming. With the boys back at home, the amount of laundry has more than doubled. Sunday, the dryer quit working. It left us with a full load of wet sheets and no place to dry them. We're not sure whether dryer repair is an "essential service" or not. It seems it us, ...