Michael T. Miyoshi's Blog, page 33
February 8, 2020
Avast Ye Scalawag
I never knew that Pirate was a different language that could be taught and learned.
There are all sorts of apps out there that teach different languages. Of course, the biggest of them all is Rosetta Stone. Its approach is immersion. As much as you can immerse yourself in your own computer. (Which is a completely different story.) But there are other apps that are certainly worth looking into and trying.
Mango Languages is one of those noteworthy apps. It is available for download on phones...
February 1, 2020
Reliable Internet
Visualization of Internet routing paths
(original size: 10241024)
by The Opte Project
Licensed under CC BY 2.5
I never really realized how important the internet has become to everyday life until I did not have it every day.
I find it amazing that we have become so reliant on the internet. We use it to pay bills, to apply for loans and scholarships, to track our investments. We use it to watch movies and keep up with our friends on social media. We even use it to settle silly disputes at...
January 25, 2020
A City Built on a Hill
When you build a city on a hill, you can expect people to see it for miles around. But what you cannot expect is that people can get anywhere or do anything when it snows.
I am sure people who live in snowy places wonder why people in the Seattle area panic when it snows. They wonder why the place shuts down with just a dusting of snow. Or at least why it used to. The answer is simple. Because there are so many hills and because people are not prepared for the winter driving conditions.
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January 18, 2020
Power or the Internet?
Visualization of Internet routing paths
(original size: 10241024)
by The Opte Project
Licensed under CC BY 2.5
If you had to choose, would you choose to have power or the internet?
(In case you were wondering, we do have power and internet. Both went down for significant amounts of time during the latest winter storm. Thus the musing.)
It is funny. You can survive without power for quite some time. Maybe even a week or more. Even in the coldest of winter. Just hunker down by the fire and...
January 11, 2020
A Slight Oversight
Have you ever been so excited about something that you forget to do something else that needed to be done? Me neither. Okay. I may have made a slight oversight when replacing our car stereo.
It is funny. I get so excited about things that I just cannot think of anything else. In fact, I get so focused that there is nothing else that matters in life. There could be earthquakes and fires and the earth coming to an end, but I would not notice when I am that focused. Okay. That might be a...
January 4, 2020
God Loves You and So Do I
Praying Hands
by Albrecht Dürer
This work is in
the public domain.
If it seems like I am posting more stuff about God and Jesus, it is probably true. I just cannot seem to help it. Oh sure, I am still posting about my own foibles and follies, but there is more to me than just the silly or stupid stuff I post.
Yes, I know. I post stupid stuff on the internet. I tend to clutter it up a bit with my musings. But that is okay. There is plenty of space out there on the good ole interweb. And I...
January 1, 2020
Happy New Year 2020
Happy New Year! It is 2020!
Apparently, the year end brought with it the end of a decade. But it also brings with it something unique. A new way to think about new years.
The year 2020 brings with it a lot of thoughts about seeing. After all 20/20 is perfect eyesight. And so the new year surely brings with it thoughts about seeing clearly. Or perhaps that is just me.
They say that hindsight is 20/20 so we ought to be able to look back on the past year (and even more years past) and say that...
December 28, 2019
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color
NASA
Have you ever wondered why we are here? Well, if you have ever read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, you know that there is a simple answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything. I will not give that answer here (so no spoiler alert necessary), but it is a simple. And even though the author had a different worldview than I do, there really is a simple answer to the question of life, the universe and...
December 25, 2019
Christmas Makes All the Difference
Christmas makes all the difference in a person’s life and in history itself.
It does not matter what significance each one of us gives to Christmas. Whether it is a day to just give gifts to one another or it is just another day off or it is just a ruse to get more people to buy more stuff. It does not matter whether the date is right or wrong in terms of when Jesus was really born. What matters is the celebration of God coming down to live among us. What matters is that Jesus was born of...
December 21, 2019
How Long Can Facebook Be Down?
I had a unique experience one morning. Facebook was down. Thankfully, chaos did not ensue. (Nor did the police get called. That I know of anyway.)
We are all used to different sites on the internet being down. Pretty much every site has its periodic maintenance and so forth. But I could not believe my eyes when I saw that Facebook was down for periodic maintenance. (I should have taken a screenshot of the page.) Oh, I could believe Facebook could be down for periodic maintenance. Just not...
