A Woman Governor for NH

 Although I'm hoping for the Democratic candidate to win, it's notable that regardless of party New Hampshire is likely to have a woman governor for the upcoming term.

Polling for the upcoming state primary:

"On the Republican side, 65 percent of likely GOP voters said they would cast their ballot for Kelly Ayotte," and...

"For the Democrats, 39 percent of respondents said they'd vote for Joyce Craig, with 30 percent of those polled backing Cinde Warmington"

Source: WMUR-TV

People around the country still think of New Hampshire as a conservative state, and it can be. But in statewide elections we've repeatedly elected women to leadership roles. 

I like that.

Cochecho Flowing

Cochecho

Is it a travel talk, or a math talk?

 Well this is cool. Figuring out the best route, then visiting the streets named after every day of the year throughout Europe. (Fair warning, it's a 'lightning talk' so the guy talks fast.)

Fiber Internet connection. ???

For the past couple days they've been stringing fiber along my street.

I'm wondering if I should look into signing up for it.

My midwinter Florida adventure

I began today to get serious about planning for my (mostly) annual midwinter escape to Florida.

I have two missions while there.

First is I have a "day job" assignment in Orlando. I'll be doing that first after arriving in Florida.

After the work is done I'll move on to a visit with my podcast partner Jeb.

And who knows what other adventures may happen before, during, and after.

More on the progress of this adventure in this blog. Subscribe.

MIT's Missing Semester online course

I came across this very useful MIT open learning course.

Over the years I've absorbed enough unix/linux ability to be able to stumble around in the accounts I use. Mostly for web development.

It appears that many MIT curricula put students into a similar situation. And this course is to fill in the gaps in their (my!) skills at using the OS from the command line.

Shell scripting. Useful commands that I'd never heard of. A great illustration of using piping and redirection to splice commands together. Also a great overview of using the version control system 'git' from the command line.

I'm only halfway through, and I've already learned a bunch of things that I'll use all the time.

The Missing Semester.

Monday Message - Jan 29, 2024

 Monday Message

January 29, 2024

Hi!

I'm pretty sure no one noticed, but I missed last week's message here. I hope to not miss it very often.

My goal is to spend 2024 focussing on building my work in creating, and my audience for, content about things other than General Aviation.

I'm sure most of you know my work on the Uncontrolled Airspace Podcast -- with Jeb Burnside and Dave Higdon. And I'll continue to be involved with that. But I want to concentrate more this year on creating other media things, about other subjects that interest me.

For the first few months I'll be experimenting. Dabbling in too many subject areas and media forms. But eventually I hope to discover the intersection of, what I'm most interested in, and what you all want to see.

My work with the UCAP podcast has been almost exclusively audio, but in this new work I'm very interested in the visual arts.