Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 6
April 24, 2014
1.5 Million
Today, April 24, 2014, Armenians all over the world remember a tragedy that befell our Ottoman Armenian ancestors 99 years ago. That tragedy was so horrific to the world that a new word, genocide, was created to describe what the Young Turk regime perpetrated. The Ottoman Armenian population was decimated by killings and deportations into […]
March 17, 2014
Evernote vs MS OneNote on my Apple constellation of devices.
Woah. I just installed it 2 macs, my iPhone and iPad. editing the same doc open on two different devices with only about 2 second lag between checkboxes and text appearing on each device. This is friggin’ awesome. The free form editing is great on the iPad and the mac, less useful on the iPhone. […]
March 15, 2014
Tracking an airplane and incompetence…
Ok so we know that the plane was pinging for 7 hours after the primary data channels were turned off…and we have satellite data along those paths. This seems like a simple data filtering problem. You take the ping data, you take the satellite photos at the same time intervals and you identify planes in […]
March 11, 2014
At the seaport today
Filed under: Random
March 9, 2014
For Pete’s sake #fox, Seth, roger ailes #cosmos…too many commercials!!!
There are too many commercials in a show that is about a 13billion year story. Dude! Time is a continuum! The presentation is pretty good, looks great, but interrupted too much.Filed under: Random
March 8, 2014
Top of stock market…close…but not yet…
I’ve been reading a lot of articles by financial prognosticators saying that the market is due for a fall immediately as it is too high and it has been a 6 year rise. Here’s my feeling. (Caveat emptor, I’m not a financial guru, I’m a historical trend and current news junkie) We know that the […]
February 3, 2014
Paper -from Facebook
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper... Ok this smacks of “if apple had created a Facebook app” and from what read, apple expatriates were on the team building this at Facebook. First, start with the splash screens and the VoiceOver. You see a iPhone 5s in it. Then the simple drag and drop to choose categories…off a wheel. The the […]
February 1, 2014
In and out of phones…
It’s fairly interesting to watch google go in and out of the handset part of the business. First the g1, then the nexus, then buying Motorola. I’m sure by holding a bunch of the patents while selling off the design and manufacturing they end up as a handset patent troll. Or, there might be something […]
January 25, 2014
Looking through some numbers I gathered….
World numbers So I compiled a bunch of “top ten” numbers in the attached file from a variety of sources on the internet (The link above is an excel file with that compilation). Yes this is what I do on a Friday night when I have a theory or curiosity that I want to affirm […]
January 18, 2014
The air is getting thin up here…
I’ve written in a couple of posts about Costco discovering scotch, and how they’ve upgraded to a glass case for some of them. Today I did a double-take and then I had to laugh. Take a look at these prices: ok lets do the math folks, once again: 25.6/1.5 =17 shots in a fifth. […]
